Oversight Hearing on the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act and Its Role in Increasingly Competitive Electricity Markets: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, February 1, 1995, Volume 4 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
210 of PURPA benefits BILIRAKIS billion BURR California capacity Chairman CLIFF STEARNS cogeneration companies competitive market competitive wholesale Congress consumers CRAPO CURTIS customer choice efficiency electric industry electric power industry electric utility electricity markets enacted Energy Policy Act ensure environmental EPAct existing Federal Power Act FERC FERC's fuel fully competitive goals GUILES independent power issues jurisdiction KARAS legislation market power marketplace megawatts ment monopoly NASUCA natural gas net metering non-utility open access operating PALLONE PARRINO percent Popowsky power market power producers power purchase PREPARED STATEMENT Public Utility Regulatory PUHCA purchase power PURPA contracts PURPA implementation PURPA projects PURPA reform QF contracts ratepayers rates regulation Regulatory Commission Regulatory Policies Act renewable energy renewable resources repeal of PURPA restructuring retail SCHAEFER SDG&E section 210 Southern California Edison Stearns stranded costs Subcommittee suppliers Thank tion tive transition tricity uneconomic assets Utility Regulatory Policies utility's wholesale power
Popular passages
Page 33 - Within its membership are the governmental bodies of the fifty States engaged in the economic and safety regulation of carriers and utilities. The mission of the NARUC is to serve the public interest by seeking to improve the quality and effectiveness of public regulation in America. More specifically, the NARUC...
Page 33 - State officials charged with the duty of regulating the retail rates and services of electric and gas utilities operating within their respective jurisdictions. We have the obligation under State law to assure the establishment and maintenance of such energy utility services as may be required by the public convenience and necessity, and to ensure that such services are provided at rates and conditions which are just, reasonable and nondiscriminatory for all consumers.
Page 21 - For purposes of this section, the term "incremental cost of alternative electric energy" means, with respect to electric energy purchased from a qualifying cogenerator or qualifying small power producer, the cost to the electric utility of the electric energy which, but for the purchase from such cogenerator or small power producer, such utility would generate or purchase from another source.
Page 4 - Chairman. [The prepared statement of Hon. Cliff Stearns follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. CLIFF STEARNS, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA Thank you, Chairman Bilirakis, for holding this important hearing and for allowing me to participate.
Page 31 - BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that NASUCA authorizes its Executive Committee to develop specific positions and to take appropriate actions consistent with the terms of this resolution. The Executive Committee shall advise the membership of any proposed action prior to taking such action if possible. In any event, the Executive Committee shall notify the membership of any action taken pursuant to this provision.
Page 28 - NASUCA. NASUCA is an association of 41 consumer advocate offices in 38 States and the District of Columbia. Our members are designated by...
Page 84 - PURPA was intended to promote energy efficiency by encouraging the increased use of alternative energy sources, specifically, cogeneration technologies and facilities employing renewable resources. PURPA provides a competitive benchmark. Under PURPA, utilities must consider competitive alternatives when they need power, and purchase power from qualifying facilities if offered at a price no greater than the cost the utility would have incurred had it supplied the power itself or obtained it from another...
Page 36 - RESOLVED by the Executive Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), convened at its...
Page 35 - QF status (which it will surely seek in order to obtain exemptions from the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Holding Company Act, and State utility regulation), it appears that FERC enforcement and potential preemption of State integrated resource planning decision will always be a threat.
Page 32 - President of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, commonly known as the "NARUC".