| 書目名稱 | Regulating Power: The Economics of Electrictiy in the Information Age |
| 副標(biāo)題 | The Economics of Ele |
| 編輯 | Carl Pechman |
| 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/826/825606/825606.mp4 |
| 叢書名稱 | Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy |
| 圖書封面 |  |
| 描述 | Modem industrial society functions with the expectation that electricity will be available when required. By law, electric utilities have the obligation to provide electricity to customers in a "safe and adequate" manner. In exchange for this obligation, utilities are granted a monopoly right to provide electricity to customers within well-defmed service territories. However, utilities are not unfettered in their monopoly power; public utility commissions regulate the relationship between a utility and its customers and limit profits to a "fair rate of return on invested capital. " From its inception through the late 1970s, the electric utility industry‘s opera- tional paradigm was to continue marketing electricity to customers and to build power plants to meet customer needs. This growth was facilitated by a U. S. energy policy predicated upon the assumption that sustained electric growth was causally linked to social welfare (Lovins, 1977). The electric utility industry is now in transition from a vertically integrated monopoly to a more competitive market. Of the three primary components (generation, transmission, and distribution) of the traditional vertically integrated monopo |
| 出版日期 | Book 1993 |
| 關(guān)鍵詞 | Generator; Potential; computer; development; electricity; regulation |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3258-3 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-1-4613-6433-7 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-4615-3258-3Series ISSN 2730-7468 Series E-ISSN 2730-7476 |
| issn_series | 2730-7468 |
| copyright | Kluwer Academic Publishers 1993 |