Politics of public utility regulation

Book · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:6275543

Gormley, Jr, W T

Since the early 1970s, energy and telecommunications policies have emerged as increasingly complex and conflictual issues in state government and have, consequently, brought about change in the politics of public utilities regulation. In this analysis, Gormley shows that state public utilities commissions, in determining the rates that can be charged by private utility companies, must confront elected government officials, members of the state bureaucracy, citizens' groups, and the regulated industries themselves in a very visible, highly technical, costly, and controversial process that pits investors against consumers, business groups against residential consumers, consumer groups against environmentalists, and low-income consumers against consumers as a whole.

• OSTI ID: 6275543
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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