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Best Environmental Practices for the Utility Industry
The documents in this index outline the best policies and practices to reduce the utility industry's harmful environmental effects and to ensure an affordable and reliable electricity supply. Many of these articles were originally published from July 1996 to February 2002 in The Electricity Journal. They address issues such as restructuring, the 2000-2001 energy crisis in California and incentives for utilities to make more efficient use of energy resources.
California Overcomes an Electricity Crisis
Published in The Electricity Journal, January/February 2002
Breaking The Consumption Habit
Published in The Electricity Journal, December 2001
Revisiting "the Genius of the Marketplace"
Published in The Electricity Journal, June 2001
Public Power and the Hometown Utility
Published in the Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, Summer 2000
Energy Distribution Monopolies
Published in The Electricity Journal, August/September 1998
Restructuring for Sustainability
Published in The Electricity Journal, July 1996
last revised 7.10.02
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