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Director's Monthly Essays on Regulatory Quality
Federal-State, Continued: Jurisdictional Peace Requires Joint Purpose
Commission Effectiveness: Is it Measurable?
Decisional Defaults: Does Regulation Have Them Backwards?
Coordinated Regulation or Jurisdictional Wrestling: Which Will Produce Better Industry Performance?
Federal State Jurisdictional Relations: Pick Your Metaphor
Low Rates, High Rates, Wrong Rates, Right Rates
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New from NRRI
State Commissions’ Authority to Mandate Service Quality Standards When Designating Telecomm Carriers
Electric-to-Gas Substitution: What Should Regulators Do?
Gas Supply Planning and Procurement: A Comprehensive Regulatory Approach
The Natural Gas Industry at a Glance: Tutorial
Aligning a Utility’s Interests with Public Interest in Cost-Effective Purchased Power Transactions
Small water systems web meeting summary
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“... [T]he Commission has claimed to be the representative of the public interest. This role does not permit it to act as an umpire blandly calling balls and strikes for adversaries appearing before it; the right of the public must receive active and affirmative protection at the hands of the Commission.”

Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. FPC, 354 F.2d 608, 620 (2d Cir. 1965) (referring to the Federal Power Commission), cert. denied sub nom., Consolidated Edison Co. v. Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, 384 U.S. 941 (1966).

 
 


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NRRI Seminars

Electric Resource Adequacy:
The D.C. Circuit Court Rejects
Connecticut’s Challenge to FERC
Now Who’s In Charge?

Teleseminar

Thursday, July 16, 2009
1:00-2:30 p.m. EDT

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Certification Requirements as a
Path to Improve Small Water Utility
Operations: Options for State
Commissions

Teleseminar

Recording available here


Gas Supply Planning and
Procurement: A Comprehensive
Regulatory Approach

Teleseminar

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