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This book analyses the role of deregulation, competition and modernization in telecommunications and energy in Europe, particularly in Eastern Europe. It features a comprehensive analysis of telecommunications policy and industry developments in the EU and selected postsocialist countries; the focus is on deregulation of public utilities, especially the electricity sector. Policy options for systemic transition are evaluated: Ex-GDR, Poland, Czech Republic and Russia. The book provides new data, information on institutional changes and new theoretical approaches to network industries. International aspects of modernizing telecoms and energy are discussed. ... Read more

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Selling Power - Marketing Energy Under Deregulation is a comprehensive look at the issues confronting energy companies preparing marketing strategies. Specific marketing solutions are provided with case studies.

A Deregulation Proverb

"When the lion and the lamb lay down togetherit is better to be the lion." ... Read more

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Energy Brokers
Great insight into an emerging industry where jobs are being created and consumers can save money with awareness.

Apeiron Power is helping create jobs by offering individuals the opportunity to start careers in an emerging field as energy brokers. Through an affiliation with the Energy Market Exchange (EMEX) they can provide companies with energy savings solutions up to 30% by providing real time energy quotes from up to 15 utility providers. The deregulated energy market has allowed for the creation of new jobs and helping small businesses lower their energy expense and increase profits. They provide training and all the tools needed to get started at [...]

For new participants
This is typically a book for new participants in the power sector.Taking that fact into account,it seems to be adequate for a first insight into the tricks of a deregulated power market. ... Read more

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During the last two decades deregulation and restructuring were widely expected to transform the nation’s energy industries, bringing more competitive pricing and abundant, reliable energy to the public. Instead, consumers and investors in the post-Enron era have suffered losses measured in the billions, attributable to market-rigging, accounting fraud, and business plans that were doomed to failure. In this in-depth look at the latest era of greed, the author explains how the leaders of these companies schemed, collaborated or ignored the obvious signs that signaled the oncoming failures of well-established energy companies.

Key Features: • What reforms are necessary in corporate accounting and reporting • The consequences of corporate boards that blindly rubber-stamp company policies •Insight into poorly designed deregulation and the nightmare consequences for the public ... Read more

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Details new tools for reducing energy costs in buildings, developing distributed generation strategies, and employing the latest security measures for any type of facility. Softcover. ... Read more

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Energy Market Restructuring and the Environment explores relationships between energy market restructuring and environmental protection, using a comparative perspective to identify good models for both industrial and developing countries. It highlights new challenges for governance that stem from the need to protect public good in globally integrated markets. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Arena Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2523 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A world gone MaD: marketisation and deregulation of electricity: the goal of affordable, accessible, clean and reliable electricity has been trampled in the rush to market.(Market Failure: Market Failure is an occasional series exploding the myths of the almighty market)
Author: Sharon Beder
Publication: Arena Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 81Page: 21(3)

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High growth rates, economic deregulation and increasing marketisation have made the Asia the most dynamic region in the world. The book is an investigation into the oil markets of the region, rapidly expanding as world energy trade adjusts to the high rate of energy demand growth in Asia. The key Singapore market, its evolution and structure are examined, together with the rapid growth of derivative trading and other forms of risk management. The impact of derivatives failures such as the Baring's collapse, is considered. A key section of the book considers the impact of market liberalization and structural industrial change taking place throughout Asia, with particular reference to China, India, Japan and Korea. Throughout Asia the link between economic development and regulation is complex, but vital to an understanding of the operation of markets. ... Read more

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Utility deregulation is the biggest consumer rip-off since the S&L debacle, activist Harvey Wasserman argues in this perceptive analysis. It has wider and more deadly implications: costs running to trillions of dollars, environmental threats, and the further delay of renewables like wind and solar energy. ... Read more

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Hits the Nail On the Head
Having been has been involved on both sides of the energy equation exploring for oil, gas and geothermal resources using seismic and magneto-telluric methods and working for the utility industry in coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants, I can say that Harvey Wasserman has written a book that details exactly how and why we're in the mess we're in.

This book is primer for anyone who wants a breif history of the utility industry.It begs the question of when the public will wake up and take back what corporations have stolen from us.

Interesting but irrelevant
An interesting book.Too bad there's not much in here about utility deregulation.

The book is an angry diatribe against various causes that the author hates, including, among others, robber barons, big corporations, corrupt politicians, nuclear power, materialism, the Vietnam War, turncoat environmentalists, and the utility industry.Rather than address these topics in turn, the author attacks each of them in every chapter of the book.The use of various colorful adjectives to describe these evils does little to dull the monotony.

These points might be tolerable if the book actually lived up to its title, but utility deregulation is treated only in the last two chapters, and in a very limited fashion at that.The first of these consists of ten pages about the California deregulation debacle, which even deregulation proponents agree was a terrible mess.The second is a brave statement about how the bad guys won't win, with little explanation for why not.

The book has little in the way of data or supporting evidence for its contentions, particularly with respect to deregulation.We are told the exact number of demonstrators dragged off the site of a protest at a nuclear power plant (1,414), but we are never told the numbers which might show that deregulation will raise the cost to consumers, though we are told that detailed studies have been done demonstrating just this.

The author also does little to present an alternative plan, being far more interested in attacking his opponents.The chapter on solar and wind energy is almost an afterthought, and energy efficiency gets perhaps a paragraph.There is nothing on how a plan using alternative energy systems might be implemented.In contrast, two chapters are dedicated to attacking nuclear power.

In the end, this book is an interesting propaganda pamphlet, but will do little to inform the public about the pros and cons of utility deregulation.

Good alternative view point
The author does a good job explaining how the deregulation has allowed the utilities to push the cost of their investment decisions on to their customers and taxpayers. Read it with an open mind and take it as one opinion in the deregulation debate.

Essential background for the mess we're now in
I read Harvey's book when it first came out. I'm not an expert on this subject, but the issues he raised in a highly accessable style worried me, although no one was talking about them at the time. Now, they're front page headlines. We think these decisions just happen, then discover when we read a book like this, that they're product of huge political interests, and that we, the ordinary citizens, pay the toll.

A wonderful rallying cry for a more democratic approach to key energy issues.

Paul Loeb Author Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time [www.soulofacitizen.org]

Good, concise history of electric industry deregulation
My only significant criticism of the book is that it is a somewhat one-dimensional assessment of a multifaceted phenomenon. While the issue of restructuring the electric industry is complex, and the economic drivers are deeper than Wasserman details in the book, the book is still an absorbing assessment of the impact that occurred when the electric utility industry embraced commercial nuclear energy. "Too cheap to meter," was the mantra of the 1950's. Well, we all have a basic energy became, in some respects, a tremendous white elephant for the industry and it's regulators. Wasserman opines that the investment required was enormous, and the return has never been completely realized either in economic, social, or environmental benefit.

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Railroads, our first large corporations, are still hauling the freight and keeping the country moving as we approach the 21st century. The last decade has seen substantial deregulation, along with basic changes in federal law relating to the railroad industry. Dooley and Thoms cover the law relating to freight and passenger service, railway labor, abandonment and spinoffs to short lines and railroad mergers and consolidations. An important reference book for the lawyer or railroad enthusiast. ... Read more

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Facinating Examination of Political Strategy and Policy
First a disclaimer: I knew Dr. Robyn ("Dottie" at the time) back around 1979--when the entire "trucking deregulation" debate was going on. And she was kind enough to even acknowledge me in the Preface to the book.

The heart of the book--for me at least--is the chapter "The Elements of Political Strategy." It's Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" applied to the battle over policy, politics, and ideas.

Being in the trenches at the time--and often being "shot at" by others who were supposedly on the same side I was representing--I find it interesting to see the broader picture at some distance. But it is also fascinating to see the disconnect between facts, on the one side, and political strategy, on the other.

I was employed by the pro-regulation forces and it was interesting, albeit painful, to see logical and rational arguments overwhelmed by emotion and simple slogans. Not to say that the deregulators didn't have some valid points. They did. But that's not the way the battle was fought. The pro-regulation forces just could never understand that quick slogans and oversimplified analogies would be far more powerful than thick binders of economic analysis and economists recalling the bad old days of the 1930s.

And one sees this same mistake being repeated over and over through the decades. Sharp, pointed attacks, with a David-and-Goliath approach, have frequently overcome the perceived entrenched old-line powers. Just take a look at today's politics for a refresher course.

Dottie--umm, Dr. Robyn--does a great job of analyzing this use of political strategy as it was employed in the fight to pass the Motor Carrier Act of 1980. ... Read more

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California was the first to open its electricity markets to competition (1998) and is often viewed as a prototype for deregulation that is unfolding on a state-by-state basis across the United States. In this book, energy columnist and think-tank analyst Will McNamara takes readers into the heart of the California energy crisis and recounts the facts surrounding California’s deregulation. He details who its main players were, the root causes of its failure, the attempts at resolution, "re-regulation," and the price-cap debate. Further, he clarifies the common misinformation surrounding the California energy crisis, and draws solutions to the inherent problems of the California model as other states deregulate their electricity markets.

Key Features & Benefits

• provides a thorough analysis of the inherent market flaws that existed in the California model for electric deregulation

• offers insights from a nationally recognized energy industry analyst who has tracked the California energy markets throughout the 1990s

• puts key developments of California’s deregulation into valuable context ... Read more

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Power interruptions of the scale of the North American Blackout of 2003 are rare, but they still loom as a possibility. Will the aging infrastructure fail because deregulated monopolies have no financial incentives to upgrade? Is centralized planning becoming subordinate to market forces? Understanding Electric Utilities and De-Regulation, Second Edition provides an updated, non-technical description that sheds light on the nature of the industry and the issues involved in its transition away from a regulated environment.

The book begins by broadly surveying the industry, from a regulated utility structure to the major concepts of de-regulation to the history of electricity, the technical aspects, and the business of power. Then, the authors delve into the technologies and functions on which the industry operates; the many ways that power is used; and the various means of power generation, including central generating stations, renewable energy, and single-household size generators. The authors then devote considerable attention to the details of regulation and de-regulation. To conclude, one new chapter examines aging infrastructures and reliability of service, while another explores the causes of blackouts and how they can be prevented.

Based on the authors' extensive experience, Understanding Electric Utilities and De-Regulation, Second Edition offers an up-to-date perspective on the major issues impacting the daily operations as well as the long-term future of the electric utilities industry. ... Read more

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A very accessible book about the new power industry.
Although rather pricey. I thought this book was worth it. Itis a verygood layman's introduction to the electric power industry, power systems,and electric industry de-regulation.I found it particularly easy to readand the authors manage to make the material interesting and to keep thereading lively.The book appears to be quite objective -- in particular itgoes into all the alternatives of the many steps in de-regulation, andreviews all sides of various issues and arguments about electric policy andde-regulation.

The first six chapters are tutorials on different aspectsof the power industry, including its business structure and operation,electricity and how it is made, generation, transmission and distributionsystems, etc.These were a big help to someone like me who does not have abackground in electric power, and are a good "standby" in case Ineed to know more in the future.The second half of the book is a verythorough discussion of the why, what and how of de-regulation in theelectric industry. The book provides a uniquely comprehensive yetaccessible explanation of the reasons for and process of de-regulation, aswell as the various types of de-regulated structures.It has a good numberof tables and lists, and some really nice, explanatory drawings in thetutorial sections.There is a particularly lengthy glossary and a verythorough index, both of which make it a good reference book. ... Read more

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Privatization and Deregulation in the Gulf Energy Sector,held in Abu Dhabi, 25-26 October 1997. This conference united leadingpractitioners and scholars in an effort to explore the important microand macro issues related to the privatization and deregulation of theenergy sector. Topics explored in the conference and in this volumeinclude oil production and refining, gas and electricity productionand their transmission and distribution. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Westchester County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on March 5, 2001. The length of the article is 887 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: How New York can avoid California's energy problems.(electric utilities deregulation)(Brief Article)
Author: Daniel B. Walsh
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 5, 2001
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 40Issue: 10Page: 18

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This digital document is an article from Energy, published by Business Communications Company, Inc. on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2780 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The California paradox: lack of a state energy policy makes distributed generation a questionable business decision. (Deregulation).(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Robert A. Laurie
Publication: Energy (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Business Communications Company, Inc.
Volume: 27Issue: 1Page: 13(4)

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This digital document is a journal article from Resource and Energy Economics, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper analyzes the impact of deregulation in an energy market on R&D activities for new energy technology when climate policy is implemented. A model of growth with vertical innovation is modified by including an oligopolistic energy supply sector for demonstrating to what extent deregulation in the energy supply sector will affect R&D activities for low-carbon energy technology, provided that carbon taxation is implemented. The analysis shows that, when the elasticity of substitution between input factors is less than unity, deregulation will drive energy R&D activities and reduce CO"2 accumulation if the energy market is highly concentrated in the beginning. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Energy Policy, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In Japan, competitive bidding for new generating capacity (IPPs) is in progress since 1996. Retail competition was introduced for large customers (contract demand over 2MW) after March 2000. Although the liberalization is limited in part by the fact that the retail power market has only about 30% share of total electricity demand, the eligible customers now have a choice among the nine major utilities and ten new entrants. Since November 2001, the electricity industry committee has been discussing the next step of liberalization, including the opening of the market for medium-size industrial and commercial high voltage (6kV) customers from 2004 and 2005 on. This paper presents the experiences so far acquired and the technical issues for further deregulation. The process includes the creation of nationwide power exchange and of a neutral organization to coordinate the transmission system by 2005. The paper deals with the characteristics of the new regulatory reform of the electricity supply industry in Japan during the period of 2003-2007. We show that it is important to understand the complexity of market behavior and design the market reform carefully. ... Read more