Steve Isser

Electricity Restructuring in the United States

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a generalist history of electricity policy from the 1978 Energy Policy Act to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 526
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9781107100787
• ISBN-10: 110710078X
• Artikelnr.: 41884265

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.