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Title: Study of the impacts of regulations affecting the acceptance of Integrated Community Energy Systems: public utility, energy facility siting and municipal franchising regulatory programs in Iowa. Preliminary background report

Abstract

The authority to regulate public utilities is vested generally in the Iowa State Commerce Commission. The Commission is comprised of three members appointed by the governor with the approval of two-thirds of the senate. Commissioners are appointed for six-year terms. They must be free from employment or pecuniary interests in any public utility. Although the right to grant franchises is specifically reserved for municipalities, local governments exercise no regulatory authority over the provision of utility services by public utilities. Municipally-owned utilities, however, are specifically excepted from rate regulation by the Commission. The regulation of rates charged by municipally-owned utilities is the responsibility of local governments. The Commission is given no authority to review decisions of local governments with respect to rates. Public utility regulatory statutes, energy facility siting programs, and municipal franchising authority are examined to identify how they may impact on the ability of an organization, whether or not it be a regulated utility, to construct and operate an ICES.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Ross, Hardies, O'Keefe, Babcock and Parsons, Chicago, IL (USA)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Division of Buildings and Community Systems
OSTI Identifier:
5649769
Report Number(s):
DOE/CS/20289-16
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-78CS20289
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; ICES; REGULATIONS; IOWA; COMMUNITIES; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY FACILITIES; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; HUMAN POPULATIONS; IMPLEMENTATION; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; LAWS; LEGAL ASPECTS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NATIONAL GOVERNMENT; OPERATION; PUBLIC UTILITIES; SITE SELECTION; STATE GOVERNMENT; MIDWEST REGION; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATIONS; USA; 320603* - Energy Conservation, Consumption, & Utilization- Municipalities & Community Systems- Public Utilities- (1980-); 293000 - Energy Planning & Policy- Policy, Legislation, & Regulation; 291000 - Energy Planning & Policy- Conservation

Citation Formats

Feurer, D A, Weaver, C L, Gallagher, K C, Hejna, D, and Rielley, K J. Study of the impacts of regulations affecting the acceptance of Integrated Community Energy Systems: public utility, energy facility siting and municipal franchising regulatory programs in Iowa. Preliminary background report. United States: N. p., 1980. Web. doi:10.2172/5649769.
Feurer, D A, Weaver, C L, Gallagher, K C, Hejna, D, & Rielley, K J. Study of the impacts of regulations affecting the acceptance of Integrated Community Energy Systems: public utility, energy facility siting and municipal franchising regulatory programs in Iowa. Preliminary background report. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5649769
Feurer, D A, Weaver, C L, Gallagher, K C, Hejna, D, and Rielley, K J. 1980. "Study of the impacts of regulations affecting the acceptance of Integrated Community Energy Systems: public utility, energy facility siting and municipal franchising regulatory programs in Iowa. Preliminary background report". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5649769. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5649769.
@article{osti_5649769,
title = {Study of the impacts of regulations affecting the acceptance of Integrated Community Energy Systems: public utility, energy facility siting and municipal franchising regulatory programs in Iowa. Preliminary background report},
author = {Feurer, D A and Weaver, C L and Gallagher, K C and Hejna, D and Rielley, K J},
abstractNote = {The authority to regulate public utilities is vested generally in the Iowa State Commerce Commission. The Commission is comprised of three members appointed by the governor with the approval of two-thirds of the senate. Commissioners are appointed for six-year terms. They must be free from employment or pecuniary interests in any public utility. Although the right to grant franchises is specifically reserved for municipalities, local governments exercise no regulatory authority over the provision of utility services by public utilities. Municipally-owned utilities, however, are specifically excepted from rate regulation by the Commission. The regulation of rates charged by municipally-owned utilities is the responsibility of local governments. The Commission is given no authority to review decisions of local governments with respect to rates. Public utility regulatory statutes, energy facility siting programs, and municipal franchising authority are examined to identify how they may impact on the ability of an organization, whether or not it be a regulated utility, to construct and operate an ICES.},
doi = {10.2172/5649769},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5649769}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980},
month = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980}
}