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Price Discrimination, Electric
Redlining, and Price Fixing in Deregulated Electric Power (2000)
By Eugene Coyle, American Public Power Association click
here for pdf format
Protecting Consumer Interests in
Distribution – Response to the Office of the Regulator-General’s February’s
Issues paper – 2001 Electricity Distribution Price Review
Prepared for Victorian consumer groups by
Pareto Assoc. http://www.reggen.vic.gov.au/docs/electric/elpareto.pdf
Energy Efficiency and demand management
in distribution – benefits to environment and consumers by Chris Dunstan from
the Sustainable Energy Development Authority (NSW)
http://www.reggen.vic.gov.au/PDF/2000/orgdmdunston.pdf
Who Owns the Sun? People, Politics and
the Struggle for a Solar Economy
by Dr Dan Berman & John O'Conner (USA)
In this book, Berman and O'Conner explain
why US investor-owned electric utilities have failed to deliver demand
management & energy conservation in the USA. Less well understood however,
is the relationship between investor-owned utilities and the failure of
community initiated energy conservation
Dr. Dan Berman currently works as a consumer
advocate for Californian electricity customers, in the Department of Ratepayer
Advocates of the Californian Public Utilities Commission.
Available by mail order in Australia through
the Energy Action Group by writing to EAG PO Box 136 North Melbourne 3051 and
providing a cheque or money order to the value of $37.00 (inclusive of mailing
costs).
Debunking the arguments that we need less
regulation
Lim
& Dwyer
Fisher Sheenan Colton
http://www.fsconline.com/downloads/REG-NEED.pdf
Other
South Australian Independent Industry
Regulator on the NEM
http://www.saiir.sa.gov.au/publications/electricity/educ/InfoNo8-BenefitsElectricityReform-Jan02.pdf
Why Pre-Payment Meters do not assist the
disadvantaged customer
http://www.fsconline.com/downloads/PREPAY.pdf
Low income customers and distribution
charges
http://www.fsconline.com/downloads/WIRCHGIN.pdf
Energy efficiency and the insurance industry
http://www.fsconline.com/downloads/news1998/JULY-AUG.pdf
Market segmentation
http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=198&EdID=799