"Chapter 3: Legal/Regulatory Background and Status Report"
Author: Hunsicker, Steven R.
Published In: Electric Restructuring and Utilities Deregulation: A Facility Manager's Guide
Date: 1998
Provides an introduction to federal and state initiatives in the electric power markets, indicates that status of retail competition on a state-by-state basis, and identifies available sources of more detailed information. Covers historical background on the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. and the Energy Policy Act of 1992; movement to retail competition; and summaries of programs in California, New York, and Pennsylvania. An appendix provides a state-by-state summary status current as of spring 1998.
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