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Multi-State Studies, Reports
See State-by-State Overviews above for state specific
studies and reports.
Ratepayer-Funded Low-Income Energy Programs: Performance and Possibilities, APPRISE and Fisher, Sheehan, and Colton, July 2007
Integrating Government-Funded
and Ratepayer-Funded Low-Income Fuel Assistance Programs,
Roger Colton, May 2002
The Energy Crisis of 2001, testimony
of Jerrold Oppenheim for Low-Income Weatherization and Fuel Assistance
Program Network, January 2001.
"Managing Default Service To Provide Consumer Benefits In Restructured States:
Avoiding Short-Term Price Volatility," by Barbara R. Alexander, June 2003.
"Default Service for Retail
Electric Competition: Can Residential and Low Income Customers
Be Protected When the Experiment Goes Awry?", by Barbara
R. Alexander, April 2002.
"Default Service: Can Residential
and Low Income Customers Be Protected When the Experiment Goes
Awry?" by Barbara R. Alexander, April 2001.
"Default Service: Can Residential
and Low Income Customers Be Protected When the Experiment Goes
Awry?, an Update to the April 2001 Report," by Barbara
R. Alexander, October 2001.
"Choice is Never Having to Say you are Sorry: How Deregulation is Working for Low-Income Programs," by H. Gil Peach, Ph.D., July 2003.
State Scorecard on Utility and Public Benefits — Energy Efficiency Programs: An Update, Dan York, Ph.D. and Marty Kushler, Ph.D., ACEEE, December 2002.
Lessons Learned From Electricity Restructuring: Transition to Competitive Markets Underway, but Full Benefits Will Take Time and Effort to Achieve, GAO, December 2002.
The Transition to Retail Competition
in Energy Markets:
How Have Residential Consumers Fared?
- Part One: An Analysis of Residential Energy Markets in Georgia,
Massachusetts, Ohio, New York and Texas,
by
Barbara R. Alexander, September 2002. (also available in PDF)
- Part Two: An Analysis of Opt-Out Aggregation
in Massachusetts and Ohio, by
Matthew H. Brown, September 2002.
(also available in PDF)
Low Income Consumer Utility
Issues: A National Perspective, by Jerry Oppenheim and Theo
MacGregor, October 2000.
Protecting Low-Income Consumers: Building
on Two Decades of Lessons Learned, by Jerry Oppenheim and
Theo MacGregor, November 2000.
Integration of LIHEAP with Energy
Assistance Programs Created Through Electric and/or Gas Restructuring an article excerpted from the newsletter "Law & Economics Insights," published by Fisher, Sheehan & Colton, Public Finance
and General Economics, Issue 00-1: January/February 2000.
Statewide Administration of Low-Income
Programs Under Energy
Utility Restructuring: Opportunities and Pitfalls, February
1998.
Low-Income
Restructuring Principles, Resolutions
'Principles' Statements or Resolutions
issued by a variety of groups
Funding Low-Income Energy Programs
What's a 'System Benefits Charge'?,
October 1997
Funding Low-Income Programs Through
a Systems Benefits Charge, September 1997
Stranded Benefits and The Anticipated
Impact on Rates in a Restructured Electric Industry, October
1997
Aggregation
-- General
Aggregating Low Income Customers: Can
Market-Based Solutions Fix Market-Based Problems?, June 1998
Consumerco, a Consumer Cooperative,
October 1997
-- State
BOCA Green Electric Co-Op, July
1999
Gas Aggregation and Low-Income Customers,
April 1999
The Low Income And
Renewables
Renewable Energy Mandates: An Analysis of Promises Made and Implications for Low Income Customers, Barbara R. Alexander, June 2009
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Idaho Implement
Innovative REACH Project, May 2002
Renewables Gaining Ground Through
State WAP, Tribal Pilot Programs, March 1999
Consumer Protection and Education
State Disconnection Policies
History / Background of Restructuring
Background to the Issues & Historical
Perspective, July 1998
What Is Electricity Restructuring?,
November/December 1996
State Electricity Profiles 2002, Energy Information Administration
Glossary of Electric Restructuring Terms,
March 1996
An Overview and History of Gas Restructuring,
April 1999
Lessons from Deregulating the Gas
Industry, December 1998
Electricity
Restructuring Fact Sheets, Energy Information Administration
Resources
Bibliography On Restructuring,
August 2003
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