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Toward Legitimacy Through Collaborative Governance: An Analysis Of The Effect Of South Carolina's Office Of Regulatory Staff On Public Utility Regulation, William H. Ellerbe Jan 2011

Toward Legitimacy Through Collaborative Governance: An Analysis Of The Effect Of South Carolina's Office Of Regulatory Staff On Public Utility Regulation, William H. Ellerbe

Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review

In 2004 the South Carolina General Assembly instituted a major reform to its system of public utility regulation. Previously, the Public Service Commission, the administrative agency in charge of regulating public utilities, both adjudicated utility proceedings and, through its staff,a advocated for the public interest. A scandal concerning revelations of extensive ex parte communications between regulated utilities and members of the Public Service Commission led to the 2004 reform, which created the Office of Regulatory Staff (ORS) as a separate agency to perform the Commission's advocative functions. In my research, I use data on fuel factor proceedings before and after …


Recommendations Of The Advisory Group To The Subcommittee, Subcommittee On Public Utilities Commission Reforms Mar 1994

Recommendations Of The Advisory Group To The Subcommittee, Subcommittee On Public Utilities Commission Reforms

California Senate

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Subcommittee Agenda And Formation Of Advisory Group, Subcommittee On Public Utilities Commission Reforms Jan 1994

Subcommittee Agenda And Formation Of Advisory Group, Subcommittee On Public Utilities Commission Reforms

California Senate

No abstract provided.


Cutting The Bill For Commonwealth Edison's Nuclear Power Plants: Important Gains For Illinois Public Utility Customers, Robert Jones Jan 1994

Cutting The Bill For Commonwealth Edison's Nuclear Power Plants: Important Gains For Illinois Public Utility Customers, Robert Jones

Journal Articles

In 1993 Commonwealth Edison, Illinois’s largest electric utility agreed to pay its customers $1.3 billion, the biggest refund issued by a utility in United States history, and to reduce its electricity rates by $339 million per year. This refund and rate reduction settled a decade-long series of cases with consumer advocates over the billions of dollars Edison spent constructing five nuclear power plants. The litigation not only offered relief to Edison customers, who paid some of the highest rates in the country. It dramatically changed Illinois law, giving public utility companies strong incentive to generate electricity through less costly and …


Reform Of Public Utilities Commission Procedures - Senate Bill 1041 & Senate Bill 1042, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities, Senate Judiciary Committee Apr 1991

Reform Of Public Utilities Commission Procedures - Senate Bill 1041 & Senate Bill 1042, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities, Senate Judiciary Committee

California Senate

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Update On The Proposed Sce-Sdg&E Merger - Is The Puc Rushing To Judgment?, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities Oct 1990

Update On The Proposed Sce-Sdg&E Merger - Is The Puc Rushing To Judgment?, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities

California Senate

No abstract provided.


Joint Interim Hearing On Utility Merger Mania: Benefits And Risks To Ratepayers And Shareholders, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities, Assembly Committee On Utilities And Commerce Oct 1988

Joint Interim Hearing On Utility Merger Mania: Benefits And Risks To Ratepayers And Shareholders, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities, Assembly Committee On Utilities And Commerce

California Joint Committees

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Interim Hearing On Diversification Of Electric, Gas And Telecommunications Industries, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities Oct 1986

Interim Hearing On Diversification Of Electric, Gas And Telecommunications Industries, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities

California Senate

No abstract provided.


Interim Hearing On Emerging Utility Trends: Competition And Diversificaiton, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities Nov 1985

Interim Hearing On Emerging Utility Trends: Competition And Diversificaiton, Senate Committee On Energy And Public Utilities

California Senate

No abstract provided.


Significant Changes In Public Utility Law, Hugh Evander Willis Jan 1937

Significant Changes In Public Utility Law, Hugh Evander Willis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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