Author: NYUP
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FERC Holds New Enron Hearings After Court Remands
FERC is still holding administrative hearings to determine whether wholesale electricity buyers are owed refunds from Enron due to market manipulation in 2001. The prehearing statement of issues in dispute […] -
AARP Cautions FERC Not to Relax Electricity Market Oversight
AARP filed comments January 19, 2007 in FERC’s pending rulemaking proceeding in which the agency proposes for the first time to adopt official rules to reflect its market rate experiment […] -
Governor Spitzer Promises Reform of Prison Inmate Telephone Charges
The New York State Department of Corrections (DOCS) contracts with MCI for prison inmate collect call telephone service. For many families whose relatives are incarcerated in distant prisons, this is […] -
FERC Commissioner Kelly: The Purpose of the Federal Power Act is to Protect Consumers
At a recent meeting FERC adopted rules to implement a new statutory provision, Section 219 of the Federal Power Act, which authorizes, in certain situations, extra financial incentives, through higher […] -
FERC Adopts Electricity Transmission Siting Rules: Says it Can Reverse State Denials
In Section 1221(a)of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Congress for the first time enabled the federal government to approve the siting and location of new electric transmission projects. The […] -
APPA Study Debunks NY PSC Report on Electric Restructuring
In March 2006 the New York Public Service Commission issued a Staff Report on the State of Competitive Energy Markets lauding the claimed results of its efforts to restructure New […] -
NY Court of Appeals Says PSC "Lightened Regulation" of New Electric Companies Justifies Local Property Tax Reductions
The New York PSC’s “Light Regulation” Regime for New Electric CompaniesIn the 1990’s heyday of electricity deregulation championed by Enron, 15 state legislatures authorized “restructuring” of their electric industries. In […] -
Yertle the Turtle? AT&T Now "Two Mergers Away" from Reintegration
AT&T was divided into seven regional bell operating companies (RBOCs) as a result of protracted antitrust litigation that ended in the 1980’s. The RBOCs basically were confined to local phone […] -
What Happened to the "Independent Study" of the Effects of Electric Industry Restructuring on Reliability?
Blackout Task Force Recommends an Independent StudyThe Joint U.S. Canada Task Force Final Report on the widespread Northeast blackout of August 14, 2003 issued a number of recommendations. Number 12 […]