Regulatory Politics and Electric Utilities
Regulatory Politics and Electric Utilities

Author: Douglas D. Anderson

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1981-03-30

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Traditional theories hold that regulatory agencies act mainly as champions of the interest they are meant to oversee. Anderson looks at regulation within the fast-changing environment. By adding the external political and internal bureaucratic variables he evaluates the capture theory.

Regulating Mergers and Acquisitions of U.S. Electric Utilities: Industry Concentration and Corporate Complication
Regulating Mergers and Acquisitions of U.S. Electric Utilities: Industry Concentration and Corporate Complication

Author: Scott Hempling

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-10-30

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 1839109467

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What happens when electric utility monopolies pursue their acquisition interests—undisciplined by competition, and insufficiently disciplined by the regulators responsible for replicating competition? Since the mid-1980s, mergers and acquisitions of U.S. electric utilities have halved the number of local, independent utilities. Mostly debt-financed, these transactions have converted retiree-suitable investments into subsidiaries of geographically scattered conglomerates. Written by one of the U.S.’s leading regulatory thinkers, this book combines legal, accounting, economic and financial analysis of the 30-year march of U.S. electricity mergers with insights from the dynamic field of behavioral economics.

Inside a Public Policy Black Box
Inside a Public Policy Black Box

Author: Michael J. DeLor

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-11-14

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1498524060

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Michael J. DeLor focuses on how the operation and regulation of private electric utilities has become complicated and contentious in the United States in part because of environmental impact. As a consequence, Congress rarely passes substantive economic-based legislation dealing with the topic, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), as the primary federal economic regulator of private electric utilities, must often act without clear legislative guidance.