Electric Power Industry Competition Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 |
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Page 21 - NARUC's members regulate the retail rates and services of electric, gas, water and telephone utilities. We nave the obligation under State law to assure the establishment and maintenance of such energy utility services as may be required by the public convenience and necessity, and to ensure that such services are provided at rates and conditions that are just, reasonable and nondiscriminatory for all consumers.
Page 109 - ... small and medium-sized communities in 49 states, all but Hawaii. In fact, 75 percent of our members are located in cities with populations of 10,000 people or less.
Page 159 - US SENATE, COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES, Washington, DC. The committee met, pursuant to notice at 9:35 am in room SH216, Hart Senate Office Building, Hon. Frank H. Murkowski, chairman, presiding.
Page 26 - NARUC has adopted resolutions that support congressional action to address the Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA) and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) provided certain conditions are met. In the case of PUHCA, we believe that...
Page 187 - The Commission has no authority to site electric transmission facilities that are necessary for interstate commerce. Existing law leaves siting to state authorities. This contrasts sharply with section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, which authorizes the Commission to site and grant eminent domain for the construction of interstate gas pipeline facilities. Exercising that authority, the Commission balances local concerns with the need for new pipeline capacity to support evolving markets. We have certificated...
Page 281 - As long, instead, as the regulated prices continue to be set, directly or indirectly, on the basis of total company costs and revenues, or on the basis of some continuing process of allocation of costs between regulated and unregulated operations, there will always be the danger, in principle, of subsidization of the latter by the former (however much the actual practice has, historically, run in the opposite direction).
Page 265 - Integrated public-utility system " means — (A) As applied to electric utility companies, a system consisting of one or more units of generating plants and/or transmission lines and/or distributing facilities, whose utility assets, whether owned by one or more electric utility companies, are physically interconnected or capable of physical interconnection and which under normal conditions may be economically operated as a single interconnected and coordinated system confined in its operations to...
Page 32 - Section 7031 for attending to the critical issue of ensuring the reliability of the interconnected bulk power system as the electric industry undergoes restructuring. A new electric reliability oversight system is needed now. The continued reliability of North America's high-voltage electricity grid, and the security of the consumers whose electricity supplies depend on that grid, is at stake.
Page 41 - Since its inception, the LPPC has focused on transmission policy as a critical issue for its members. The LPPC was the first group of transmission owning utilities which expressed support for open transmission access in the debates preceding the Energy Policy Act of 1992. At the same time, we led the way in developing and promoting regional transmission entities as a mechanism to manage and operate the transmission system in an open access environment.
Page 106 - I cannot overemphasize the importance of a federal guarantee for back-up power at just and reasonable rates in states that remain non-competitive. Without such a guarantee, cogenerators would be captive to unregulated monopolies that could charge what they wish, and the cogenerators would have no alternative. In states without...