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Steve Isser provides a generalist history of electricity policy from the 1978 Energy Policy Act to the present, covering the economic, legal, regulatory, and political issues and controversies in the transition from regulated utilities to competitive electricity markets.
List of contents
Introduction; 1. The regulated electricity industry; 2. The EPA steps in; 3. The rise and fall of demand side management; 4. Congress acts, investors react; 5. The economists are coming, the economists are coming; 6. The Energy Policy Act of 1992; 7. Jump into the power pool; 8. What hath FERC wrought?; 9. Reorganization on the eve of deregulation; 10. The emergence of independent power producers; 11. The politics of electricity deregulation; 12. The creation of wholesale electricity markets; 13. Pushing markets - order 2000; 14. Great expectations; 15. Darkness, darkness; 16. California and market power; 17. FERC and market power in California; 18. Two steps forward, one step back; 19. The FERC cracks the whip; 20. The Energy Policy Act of 2005; 21. Wired; 22. Playing the piper; 23. Leave the lights on; 24. How much is too much?; 25. From small things big things one day come; 26. Blinded by the light; Conclusion.
About the author
Steve Isser is President at Energy Law and Economics, Inc. His work has been published in Mathematical Modeling, the Review of Policy Research, and Public Utility Fortnightly, as well as two books on oil economics and politics.
Summary
Steve Isser provides a generalist history of electricity policy from the 1978 Energy Policy Act to the present, covering the economic, legal, regulatory, and political issues and controversies in the transition from regulated utilities to competitive electricity markets.
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'In Steve Isser's Electricity Restructuring in the United States, readers will find a rich resource that delves deeply into the story of energy law's evolution. The book covers the particulars of nearly every development in US energy law and policy related to electricity restructuring from 1978 until about 2014. It documents the kinds of details that are lost over time: names, squabbles, and strange bedfellows that contributed to energy law as we know it. For researchers, such details provide texture and an ample array of sources for further exploration.' Emily Hammond, Yale Journal on Regulation
