Overview

The electric utility industry in the US is technologically complex, and its structure as a classic network industry makes it intricate in business terms as well, so deregulation of such a complicated industry was a particularly detailed process. Steve Isser provides a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the history of the transformation of this complex industry 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. The book is a multidisciplinary study that includes a comprehensive review of the economic literature on electricity markets, the political environment of electricity policymaking, administrative and regulatory rulemaking, and the federal case law that restrained state and federal regulation of electricity. Isser offers a valuable case study of the pitfalls and problems associated with the deregulation of a complex network industry.

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Author:   Steve Isser
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.950kg
ISBN:  

9781107100787

ISBN 10:   110710078
Pages:   526
Publication Date:   16 April 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table 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.

Reviews

'This authoritative book is full of detail but also presents the broad sweep of events over the last twenty-five years. It is a multidisciplinary tour de force, showing how a mix of technical, economic, legal and political factors contributed both to the decisions made and to their results.' Richard Green, Imperial College Business School, London 'Electricity Restructuring in the United States is an extraordinarily comprehensive history of the restructuring of the US electric power industry from 1978 until the present. The book is multidisciplinary, integrating numerous primary sources from economics, utility regulation, politics, engineering and legislative activity. It provides the most detailed documentation available of the forces that influence the rate and direction of electricity sector restructuring in the United States.' Paul L. Joskow, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'This book brilliantly demonstrates how the institutional, legal and regulatory circumstances of a country shape, and are shaped by, the evolution of the electricity supply industry and how they constrain restructuring possibilities. It is therefore of central interest to all students of electricity regulation and reform.' David Newbery, Director, Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge '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 This authoritative book is full of detail but also presents the broad sweep of events over the last twenty-five years. It is a multidisciplinary tour de force, showing how a mix of technical, economic, legal and political factors contributed both to the decisions made and to their results. Richard Green, Imperial College Business School, London Electricity Restructuring in the United States is an extraordinarily comprehensive history of the restructuring of the US electric power industry from 1978 until the present. The book is multidisciplinary, integrating numerous primary sources from economics, utility regulation, politics, engineering and legislative activity. It provides the most detailed documentation available of the forces that influence the rate and direction of electricity sector restructuring in the United States. Paul L. Joskow, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology This book brilliantly demonstrates how the institutional, legal and regulatory circumstances of a country shape, and are shaped by, the evolution of the electricity supply industry and how they constrain restructuring possibilities. It is therefore of central interest to all students of electricity regulation and reform. David Newbery, Director, Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge 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

'This authoritative book is full of detail but also presents the broad sweep of events over the last twenty-five years. It is a multidisciplinary tour de force, showing how a mix of technical, economic, legal and political factors contributed both to the decisions made and to their results.' Richard Green, Imperial College Business School, London 'Electricity Restructuring in the United States is an extraordinarily comprehensive history of the restructuring of the US electric power industry from 1978 until the present. The book is multidisciplinary, integrating numerous primary sources from economics, utility regulation, politics, engineering and legislative activity. It provides the most detailed documentation available of the forces that influence the rate and direction of electricity sector restructuring in the United States.' Paul L. Joskow, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'This book brilliantly demonstrates how the institutional, legal and regulatory circumstances of a country shape, and are shaped by, the evolution of the electricity supply industry and how they constrain restructuring possibilities. It is therefore of central interest to all students of electricity regulation and reform.' David Newbery, Director, Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge

Author Information

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.

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