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For over a century, the law of public utility regulation has supported and disciplined the nation's infrastructural industries. Regardless of sector or era, all utility law has shared five features: its mission (to align private utility behavior with the public interest); its diversity (from state law exclusive franchises to federal protection of shareholder investment); its reliance on multiple professions (economics, accounting, engineering and finance); its sources (constitutions, statutes, regulatory orders and appellate opinions); and its flexibility (accommodating multiple market structures and public purposes). New policy challenges are stretching regulation's legal boundaries. Commissions accustomed to processing rate cases are facing questions over climate change, universal broadband service, data privacy, microgrids, industry concentration and terrorism protection. The resulting tensions are both ideological (private vs. public ownership, government vs. markets) and jurisdictional (national standards vs. state experimentation). At stake are trillions of investor and consumer dollars.
Regulating Public Utility Performance organizes a century of legal principles to help the regulatory profession resolve these tensions and fashion new policies. Its mix of case narratives and doctrine, drawn from all legal sources, is geared to lawyers and non-lawyers, veterans and novices, practitioners and decisionmakers, academics and the mediaanyone seeking to use the law to serve the public interest. Among the topics covered are:
"In my experience, Scott Hempling's mastery of the complexities of 21st century public utility regulation is unmatched. This book will be invaluable in helping all of us sort out the challenges facing today’s utilities and their regulators."
-- William J. Bullard, General Counsel, Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources
ABA Book Publishing
9781627222921
500
5350248
7 x 10, Paperback
8/16/2013 12:00:00 AM
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