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The Political Economy Of Energy And Its Implications For Climate Change Legislation, Jim Rossi
The Political Economy Of Energy And Its Implications For Climate Change Legislation, Jim Rossi
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Public choice themes have arisen throughout the history of U.S. energy regulation and continue to be relevant today, particularly with widespread discussion of deregulation and increased attention to climate change. This Article surveys how public choice themes are relevant to understanding a host of issues of importance to the electric power industry today, including the structure of the industry, the significance of wholesale markets, and the division of regulatory power between state and federal authorities. The Article highlights how an understanding of how public choice has contributed to these features of the electric power industry will prove important to the …
The Trojan Horse Of Electric Power Transmission Line Siting Authority, Jim Rossi
The Trojan Horse Of Electric Power Transmission Line Siting Authority, Jim Rossi
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Reform proposals pending in the U.S. Congress would increase federal and regional power to preempt states in siting transmission lines on order to allow the development of a high-votage transmission grid for renewable resources. This Article recognizes the inadequacy of existing state siting authority over transmission, but takes a skeptical approach to expanding federal siting jurisdiction as a solution to the problem and argues that the over-attention to transmission line siting authority is a bit of a Trojan horse in the climate change debate. Specifically, because it ignores the more difficult issues of how the costs and benefits of transmission …