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AG, counsel urge review of NU-NSTAR merger
Feb 8 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Anthony Cronin The Day, New London, Conn. - Connecticut's attorney general and consumer counsel are urging regulators to ensure that the proposed $4.7 billion merger of utility giants Northeast Utilities and NSTAR will serve the public interest. More...
Public is urged to fight Westar deal
Feb 8 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - John Green The Hutchinson News, Kan. - A proposed settlement in Westar Energy's latest customer rate case would grant the utility a $50 million annual increase in electric rates, of which more than 80 percent -- or $41 million -- residents and small businesses would have to pay. More...
Judicial Watch Sues Obama Department of Energy for Records Detailing $529 Million Loan to Failing Green Energy Car Manufacturer
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb 08, 2012 -- MARKETWIRE - Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on February 1, 2012, against the U.S. More...
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Miner drug testing policy opposed
Feb 8 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Mannix Porterfield The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va. - A union leader joined the lead investigator in an independent inquiry into the Upper Big Branch mine disaster Tuesday in exhorting lawmakers to focus on "real" safety issues, and ignore a call to impose a state-led drug testing policy for new miners. More...
McLean County may put electricity question on Nov. ballot
Feb 8 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Rachel Wells The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill. - Residents in five McLean County communities will see electricity aggregation questions on their March ballots, but the county itself and several smaller towns are leaving an estimated 10,000 eligible customers out of the loop -- at least for now. More...
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Why Smart Grid Advocates Should Learn About Utility Regulation

By Bob Jenks
Many of us have heard of the Smart Grid and its potential to improve the electricity delivery system. Moving to a two-way digital grid will improve the grid's reliability and offer a variety of new more...
Filed Under Policy, Regulatory & Legal

A Historical Perspective of Electric Power Regulation

By Harry Valentine
There was a time prior to the year 1900 when electric power generation was privately own and essentially free from political regulation. The development of the electric light bulb and the electrically powered streetcar encouraged more...
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Preparing for Dodd-Frank

By Michel Zadoroznyj
New legislation brings in its wake a period of confusion and adjustment, as the businesses and individuals it affects come to terms with new responsibilities and/or restrictions. But the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer more...
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An Invaluable Reminder about Electric Deregulation

By Ferdinand E. Banks
This short paper borrows from my forthcoming energy economics textbook (2011), and consists of a part of the lecture that I once desperately wanted to present at either the Stockholm School of Economics, or at more...
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What Unrest In Egypt Means for Oil Prices at Home

By David Holt
Americans are all too familiar with the ways political instability in oil rich places like Iraq and Saudi Arabia impact the price they pay for gasoline and heating oil. But uncertain energy prices affect the more...
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