Implementing Electricity Restructuring

Timothy Brennan, Karen Palmer and Salvador Martinez

Environmental & Resource Economics, 2002, vol. 22, issue 1, 99-132

Abstract: Electricity is one of the last U.S.industries in which competition is replacingregulation. We briefly review the technologyfor producing and delivering power, the historyof electricity policy, and recent state andinternational experience. We then outline themajor questions facing policymakers as theydecide whether, when, and how to implementrestructuring. We conclude with some thoughtson the California electricity crisis and otherpolitical controversies. Although theCalifornia experience has come to define whatit means for electricity markets to fail, mostof the problems it raised are among those weknow how to solve or prevent. The stillunresolved make-or-break issue remains whetherthe cooperation necessary to maintainreliability is compatible with the degree ofcompetition necessary to bring about greaterefficiency and lower prices. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002

Keywords: competition; deregulation; electricity restructuring; regulation; stranded cost (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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