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Blamed for Wildfires, PG&E Seeks Higher Electricity Rates

The California utility and two others says higher rates are needed to pay for safety improvements and to offset the financial risk of more frequent wildfires. Read more detail on Recent Business Law posts –

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Four maps show how electricity generation has changed in the US

A natural gas fracking well near Shreveport, Louisiana. (credit: Daniel Foster) The US Energy Information Agency (EIA) recently published two interesting sets of maps to show how the US energy mix has changed state by state between 2007 and 2017. … Continue reading

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Estimating Market Power in Homogenous Product Markets Using a Composed Error Model: Application to the California Electricity Market

Luis Orea, Universidad de Oviedo – Facultad de Economicas and Jevgenijs Steinbuks, World Bank – Development Research Group (DECRG) are Estimating Market Power in Homogenous Product Markets Using a Composed Error Model: Application to the California Electricity Market. ABSTRACT: This… … Continue reading

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Clean Electricity for the People by the People

Shelley Welton, Clean Electrification, 88 U. Colo. L. Rev. 571 (2017), available at SSRN. Felix Mormann Climate change has made the timely decarbonization of the electric grid a top priority for policymakers in the United States and across the globe. … Continue reading

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The Paradox of Electricity Deregulation

You might think that deregulation means sweeping away regulations, which ought to make the law much simpler.  But the opposite is true in the electricity sphere.  The regulatory system in states taking the traditional fixed-price approach is actually much easier … Continue reading

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