Download or read book Federal Power written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Power written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal Power: The Evolution of Preference in Marketing Federal Power
Download or read book FEDERAL POWER The Evolution of Preference in Marketing Federal Power written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the power marketing administrations (PMA)1 of the Department of Energy (DOE) have provided electricity, generated largely at federal multipurpose water projects, to customers in over 30 states. To guide the PMAs efforts in marketing electricity, the Congress and the courts have directed the PMAs to give certain customers preference. Generally, preference is the opportunity to obtain priority access to federal power that has traditionally been sold at rates generally below those of other sources. Preference provisions come into play only when a potential customer that does not have preference (such as an industrial user or a commercial power company) and a preference customer (such as a municipally owned utility or a rural electric cooperative) want to buy federal power and not enough is available for both. As we enter the 21st century, the electricity industry is restructuring from one dominated by regulated monopolistic electric utilities to one that increasingly allows customers to choose their source of electricity. The Congress continues to consider legislation dealing with this industry s restructuring, including the role of preference in the PMAs sale of electricity.
Download or read book Federal Power written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rced 00 127 Federal Power written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RCED-00-127, Federal Power: The Evolution of Preference in Marketing Federal Power
Download or read book Regenerating Dixie written by Casey Cater and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regenerating Dixie is the first book that traces the electrification of the US South from the 1880s to the 1970s. It emphasizes that electricity was not solely the result of technological innovation or federal intervention. Instead, it was a multifaceted process that influenced, and was influenced by, environmental alterations, political machinations, business practices, and social matters. Although it generally hewed to national and global patterns, southern electrification charted a distinctive and instructive path and, despite orthodoxies to the contrary, stood at the cutting edge of electrification from the late 1800s onward. Its story speaks to the ways southern experiences with electrification reflected and influenced larger American models of energy development. Inasmuch as the South has something to teach us about the history of American electrification, electrification also reveals things about the South’s past. The electric industry was no mere accessory to the “New South” agenda—the ongoing project of rehabilitating Dixie after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Electricity powered industrialism, consumerism, urban growth, and war. It moved people across town, changed land- and waterscapes, stoked racial conflict, sparked political fights, and lit homes and farms. Electricity underwrote people’s daily lives across a century of southern history. But it was not simply imposed on the South. In fact, one Regenerating Dixie’s central lessons is that people have always mattered in energy history. The story of southern electrification is part of the broader struggle for democracy in the American past and includes a range of expected and unexpected actors and events. It also offers insights into our current predicaments with matters of energy and sustainability.
Download or read book The Power Brokers written by Jeremiah D. Lambert and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the interplay between government regulation and the private sector has shaped the electric industry, from its nineteenth-century origins to twenty-first-century market restructuring. For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essential service to largely dependent consumers invited government oversight and ever more sophisticated market intervention. The industry has sought to manage, co-opt, and profit from government regulation. In The Power Brokers, Jeremiah Lambert maps this complex interaction from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Lambert's narrative focuses on seven important industry players: Samuel Insull, the principal industry architect and prime mover; David Lilienthal, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), who waged a desperate battle for market share; Don Hodel, who presided over the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) in its failed attempt to launch a multi-plant nuclear power program; Paul Joskow, the MIT economics professor who foresaw a restructured and competitive electric power industry; Enron's Ken Lay, master of political influence and market-rigging; Amory Lovins, a pioneer proponent of sustainable power; and Jim Rogers, head of Duke Energy, a giant coal-fired utility threatened by decarbonization. Lambert tells how Insull built an empire in a regulatory vacuum, and how the government entered the electricity marketplace by making cheap hydropower available through the TVA. He describes the failed overreach of the BPA, the rise of competitive electricity markets, Enron's market manipulation, Lovins's radical vision of a decentralized industry powered by renewables, and Rogers's remarkable effort to influence cap-and-trade legislation. Lambert shows how the power industry has sought to use regulatory change to preserve or secure market dominance and how rogue players have gamed imperfectly restructured electricity markets. Integrating regulation and competition in this industry has proven a difficult experiment.
Download or read book Month in Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wired Northwest written by Paul W. Hirt and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific Northwest holds an abundance of resources for energy production, from hydroelectric power to coal, nuclear power, wind turbines, and even solar panels. But hydropower is king. Dams on the Columbia, Snake, Fraser, Kootenay, and dozens of other rivers provided the foundation for an expanding, regionally integrated power system in the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia. A broad historical synthesis chronicling the region's first century of electrification, Paul Hirt's new study reveals how the region's citizens struggled to build a power system that was technologically efficient, financially profitable, and socially and environmentally responsible. Hirt shows that every energy source comes with its share of costs and benefits. Because Northwest energy development meant river development, the electric power industry collided with the salmon fishing industry and the treaty rights of Northwest indigenous peoples from the 1890s to the present. Because U.S. federal agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation built many of the large dams in the region, a significant portion of the power supply is publicly owned, initiating contentious debates over how that power should best serve the citizens of the region. Hirt dissects these ongoing battles, evaluating the successes and failures of regional efforts to craft an efficient yet socially just power system. Focusing on the dynamics of problem-solving, governance, and the tense relationship between profit-seeking and the public interest, Hirt's narrative takes in a wide range of players-not only on the consumer side, where electricity transformed mills, mines, households, commercial districts, urban transit, factories, and farms, but also power companies operating at the local and regional level, and investment companies that financed and in some cases parasitized the operators. His study also straddles the international border. It is the first book to compare energy development in the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia. Both engaging and balanced in its treatment of all the actors on this expansive stage, The Wired Northwest helps us better understand the challenges of the twenty-first century, as we try to learn from past mistakes and re-design an energy grid for a more sustainable future.
Download or read book Bonneville Power Administration and States of the Pacific Northwest written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1985 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Appropriations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legislative History of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 Public Law 703 83rd Congress written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Works Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Works Appropriations for 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
