Analysis of the electric-utility industry in the US: an overview of selected analyses assessing the financial health of the utility industry

Technical Report · Tue Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:6169186

ICF has performed a series of analyses for DOE evaluating several aspects of the current and future financial condition of the electric utility industry in the US. These conditions were evaluated for several alternative views of the future economic and regulatory environment facing this industry. The purpose of this overview report is to summarize the key issues, assumptions, and findings developed in these analyses. The purpose of the ICF analyses was to investigate: (1) the current and possible future economic and financial conditions of the utility industry; (2) the national and regional cost and rate impacts of restoring financial health to the utility industry and selected case studies of three specific utility systems; (3) the economic and rate impacts of building additional utility powerplants; (4) the relative costs of overbuilding versus underbuilding generating capacity; and (5) the death spiral hypothesis.

• Research Organization: ICF, Inc., Washington, DC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-81PE70274
• OSTI ID: 6169186
• Report Number(s): DOE/PE/70274-T1; ON: DE83011542
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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