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Social resistance to deregulation of the energy industry in the industrial nations can be overcome by implementing privatized compliance monitoring methods. A deposit-refund pollution control model is a cost-effective incremental way to privatize enforcement by placing compliance burdens on emitters rather than on regulators. Private compliance monitoring can help address issues such as potential environmental damage, regulatory bureaucracy, and lack of funding.

The 1997 World Energy Engineering Congress in Atlanta, GA, on Nov 19, 1997 included a panel discussion on the impact of utility deregulation. While one panel member claimed that deregulation is an occurrence that will take place in all utilities, another commented that it is a process that involves a number of significant phases. The panel members included such industry experts as Energywiz Pres Lindsay Audin, New Energy Venture VP Dan Griffiths and EUA Cogenex director of project development Manny Patino.

The electric utilities industry is embarking on a period of profound restructuring and change. Under pressure from consumers seeking access to cheaper electricity and from producers looking to break into new markets, the monopolistic, vertically-integrated structure that has characterized the electric power industry since the early 20th century will probably disintegrate. By the mid-21st century, industry experts predict that the utilities industry will be just as deregulated as the telecommunications industry in the 1990s., The nation's electric utility industry is entering a period of massive change and restructuring. Competitive forces are transforming the market as electricity users demand access to cheaper power and suppliers [...]

Utility deregulation seemed, to some, like the greatest invention since sliced bread. This new gateway to competitive energy prices, bundled services, and multi-tiered energy distribution channels was supposed to lead [...]

LANSING - The signing of Michigan electric-restructuring bills has some energy companies and business officials bullish on the prospect of new power plants to ease tight electricity supplies. But not [...]

Texas' first stranded-cost securitization bond issues are being held up by two lawsuits challenging the structure of the deals, and a third questioning the constitutionality of the state's plan to [...]

Anyone who was around in the 1970s will remember how instability in energy markets breeds economic trouble. After 20 years of relative calm, gas prices are again wreaking havoc. In [...]

Energy deregulation has brought on a new era in the relationship between businesses and their power companies. Competition between electricity suppliers has become a reality, and for the first time, [...]

DALLAS - Even before the Texas Senate agreed last week to deregulate the state's electric power market, the specter of greater competition had prompted one city to leave the generation [...]

By Jennifer Karchmer As the effects of federal deregulation continue to trickle through the utility sector, municipal natural gas bond deals are becoming increasingly difficult to analyze, market observers say. [...]

In 1961, when James Barr joined American Water Works (AWW), where his father John Barr Jr. was chairman and CEO (1955-1984), he started as a radio dispatcher, bunching keys from […]

One year after energy deregulation kicked into effect in California, things pretty much look the same. Lights still work, bills still come in the mail and energy providers are still [...]

Heating, air conditioning and ventilation contractors who fear losing customers to utilities, which will be able to sell equipment as deregulation of the industry continues, are banning together to influence legislators. Summaries of regulatory activity which might affect contractors is given for each state., The following hypothetical case shows why hvac contractors fear competition by gas and electric utilities. In 1985, ABC Contracting sold a combination gas furnace and central air conditioning system to [...]