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- English
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About this book
Regulatory Choices offers the first comprehensive economic history of energy policy and its consequences for California, where some of the most innovative and far-ranging programs of regulatory reform have originated. The authors of this volume have gathered together an impressive wealth of material about actual policy decisions and their repercussions and have subjected their findings to astute economic analysis. This book will serve for years to come as an invaluable reference on the costs and effects of various energy policies. With its focus on bringing prices in alignment with the true cost of producing power and delivering it to the customer, the first part of the book outlines the issue of setting utility rates and considers some of the proposals to provide regulated industries with incentives to respond to economic and environmental concerns. The problems of energy supply occupy the second part of the book, which includes a survey of the costs of alternative energy sources and estimates of their environmental impacts, as well as a case study of the construction of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. The book concludes by documenting the results of subsidy programs that were designed to target the development of wind power and residential energy conservation. Regulators, we learn, have a mixed record when it comes to managing the production of energy. Some conservation programs have enjoyed considerable economic success, particularly those that correct a lack of consumer information. Others, such as the renewable energy tax credits or programs designed to subsidize new technologies, have cost much more than the value of the energy they have saved. What emerges clearly from this study is that regulated industries are not immune from the forces of competition. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS 1
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ONE Introduction and Overview Richard J. Gilbert
- TWO Energy Utility Pricing and Customer Response The Recent Record in California Lee S. Friedman
- THREE Issues in Public Utility Regulation Richard J. Gilbert
- FOUR The Value of Rate Reform in a Competitive Electric Power Market Richard J. Gilbert and John E. Henly
- FIVE Natural Gas Distribution in California Regulation, Strategy, and Market Structure Michael V. Russo and David J. Teece
- SIX Estimating Costs of Alternative Electric Power Sources for California Walter J. Mead and Mike Denning
- SEVEN An Economic Evaluation of the Costs and Benefits of Diablo Canyon Alan J. Cox and Richard J. Gilbert
- EIGHT Residential Energy Conservation Standards, Subsidies, and Public Programs John M. Quigley
- NINE Wind Power in California A Case Study of Targeted Tax Subsidies Alan J. Cox, Carl J. Blumstein, and Richard J. Gilbert
- TEN Concluding Remarks on the Making of Public Policy Richard J. Gilbert
- INDEX<