» Addressing the Social Dimensions of Power Sector Reform in Developing Countries and Economies in Transition
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

» An Analysis of the Institutional Challenges to Commercialization and Deployment of IGCC Technology in the U.S. Electric Industry: Recommended Policy, Regulatory, Executive and Legislative Initiatives
Dr. John N. O’Brien and Joel Blau -Global-Change Associates
This Report identifies and prioritizes the institutional (i.e., non-technical) challenges to the rapid commercialization and deployment of coal gasification technologies in the U.S. electric power sector and provides recommendations for overcoming them. It focuses on Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) technology, the most successful method of producing electric power utilizing coal gasification. The Report recommends a number of regulatory,legislative, executive and policy initiatives, at both the federal and state levels, for achieving those objectives.

» Analysis of the Relationship Between Improved Energy Sector Governance and the Attraction of Foreign Direct Investment
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

» Benchmarking and Its Applications
Virendra Ajodhia, Konstantin Petrov, Gian Carlo Scarsi -KEMA Consulting, Delft University of Technolgy
This paper outlines a number of commonly used efficiency measures and discuss how they may be calculated relative to an efficient technology, which is generally represented by some frontier function…

» Benchmarking and Regulation of Electricity Transmission and Distribution Utilities: Lessons Learned from the International Experience
Tooraj Jamasb, Michael Pollitt -University of Cambridge
This paper reviews the main approaches to incentive regulation and discusses various benchmarking methods…

» Benchmarking Report For the Athens MoU signatory Parties and Observers
Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER)

» Best Practices in Consumer Services

» Briefing Paper - Highlights of Public Utility Regulation in 2005

» Consumer Services at the NER South Africa

» Democracy, Regulation and Public Involvement
Peter Bradford -PA Consulting Group

» Economies in Transition, Heat Production, 2002
International Energy Agency

» Electric Utility Deregulation and the Myths of the Energy Crisis
Tyson Slocum -Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy & Environment Program
If the purpose of electricity deregulation is really to improve the quality of people’s lives by lowering the cost of a critical commodity, it has obviously failed, as demonstrated in every state which has chosen to deregulate. Power companies, free from the oversight of state regulators, have quadrupled prices for Montana industrial consumers, doubled prices in many Northeast and New England states, and driven one of California’s utilities to bankruptcy. Whereas consumers have been left to pay higher prices, energy corporations in deregulated markets have made record profits.

» Electricity and Water Tariff Analysis in Rwanda
USAID

» Energy Poverty in Serbia
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

» Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA) Library

» Energy Sector Framework for the Future - Volume 1
This document examines the challenges facing the electricity sector in the U.S., and outlines different sets of circumstances and scenarios that might guide it's future…

» Energy Sector Framework for the Future - Volume Ore 2
This document examines the challenges facing the electricity sector in the U.S., and outlines different sets of circumstances and scenarios that might guide it's future…

» FERC's Reliability Team
U.S.- Canada Power System Outage Task Force Final Report Summary

» Fiscal Autonomy Review - Comparative Study of Regulatory Fiscal Autonomy Around the World
Linda Breathitt and Roger Gibian -Academy for Educational Development
The objective of this study is to inform the reader about essential elements of the important... relationship between fiscal autonomy and the decision-making and planning independence of an energy regulatory authority.

» Functions

» Functions; Managing a Regulatory Commission; Management and Staff Functions; Rules of Practice and Procedure; Stakeholder Concerns and Balancing Interests; Incentive-Based Regulation
David Jankofsky -New York Public Service Commission

» Gas & Electricity Interdependence: The Current Situation and Intermediate and Long-Term Solutions
The objective of this report is to give the Committee members a brief synopsis of the situation and some tools they can consider using to address this situation. Although attention has been focused on the need for a short-term response to the current gas storage crisis, this situation also calls for long-term solutions that may take five to ten years to produce results…

» Glossary of Utility Terms

» Guide to the Electric Power in Ghana
Resource Center for Energy Economics and Regulation

» Highlights of the 2003 New York ISO State of the Market Report
David B. Patton, Ph.D. -Potomac Economics
This presentation provides highlights from the Annual Report on the New York electricity markets for 2003

» Impacts of Severe Storms on Electric Grids
Union of the Electricity Industry (EURELECTRIC)

» Implications of EPAct 2005 for State Commissions
The National Regulatory Research Institute

» Incentive-Based Regulation
New York Public Service Commission

» Independent Incentive Mechanisms for Gas Procurement: A Status Report
NRRI

» Independent Market Monitoring of the Midwest ISO Electricity Markets
Organization of MISO States

» Lessons from International Experience with Electricity Market Monitoring
Frank Wolak -University of California Energy Institute

» Managing a Regulatory Commission

» Measurement Practices for Reliability and Power Quality: A Toolkit of Reliability Measurement Practices
John D. Kueck and Brendan J. Kirby; Philip N. Overholt; Lawrence C. Markel -Oak Ridge National Laboratory
This report provides a distribution reliability measurement “toolkit” that is intended to be an asset to regulators, utilities and power users. The metrics and standards discussed range from simple reliability, to power quality, to the new blend of reliability and power quality analysis that is now developing…

» Natural Gas Price Volatility: Regulatory Policies To Assure Affordable And Stable Gas Supply Prices For Residential Customers
Barbara R. Alexander
The purpose of this paper is to examine how some representative states in each of the regional natural... gas markets have answered these questions and to offer preliminary observations and recommendations on state regulatory policies for the procurement and pricing of natural gas supply for residential customers. This paper does not address how state commissions or gas utilities should create or implement programs for individual residential customers that respond to gas price volatility or high gas supply prices, such as budget billing mechanisms, low income bill payment assistance programs, and implementing voluntary bill or usage reduction measures. Rather, this paper focuses on state regulatory policies that impact the prices charged to residential customers and not how residential customers can respond to high natural gas prices once they appear on the bill.

» Nexus Between Energy Sector Reform and Democracy & Governance

» North American Perspective on gas Infrastructure
J. Mark Robinson, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

» Policy Sequencing

» Power Outages in 2003
Union of the Electricity Industry (EURELECTRIC)

» Primer on Public Utility Regulation for New State Regulatory Commissioners
This primer provides a brief overview of the history and structure of state commission regulations…

» Quality, Regulation and Benchmarking - An Application to Electricity Distribution Networks
Virendra Ajodhia, Konstantin Petrov, Gian Carlo Scarsi -KEMA Consulting, Delft University of Technolgy
The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the theory and state of the art with respect to the informational problems encountered under quality regulation for electricity distribution…

» Rate Case and Audit Manual
Guideline for state, territory, and federal regulatory utility commission personnel… we have tried to present the basic steps of the rate case investigation in such a way that revisions and changes can be made by the individual jurisdictions while maintaining the overall usefulness of the more general guidelines…

» Regulated Utilities - Reinventing The Classic Business Strategy - Opportunities and limitations of five top strategies
Public Utilities Fortnightly, December 2005

» Regulation by Contract: A New Way to Privatize Electricity Distribution?
Tonci Bakovic, Bernard Tenenbaum and Fiona Woolf -World Bank
The specific focus of this paper is on how regulatory contracts can be combined with independent regulatory commissions to promote successful privatization of electricity distribution

» Regulation Of Heat And Electricity Produced In Combined-Heat-And-Power Plants
Hossein Razavi -World Bank
The main objectives of this report are to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art of usage of CHP and of allocating costs to electricity and heat in CHP production in various countries under different market conditions; to demonstrate how benefits of CHP production can be shared and costs can be allocated between heat and electricity in order to improve the competitiveness and affordability of both power and heat and thus the acceptability of CHP, taking into account the issue of cross-subsidization related to this; and to provide an overview of the possible changes needed in the regulatory frameworks to achieve the improved competitiveness and affordability of both power and heat…

» Reliability Certification
Derek HasBrouck and Jeff Lewis -PA Consulting Group
A service provided to utilities to assure senior management and external stakeholders that the reported reliability statistics materially reflect the level of electric service reliability that the average customer experienced during a given time period

» Renewable Energy and the North American Free Trade Agreement: Are They Compatible?
Scott Hempling
Presents the argument defending state-level and US renewables program from attack under NAFTA

» Report on Utility Vegetation Management
Robert Novembri and Stephen R. Cieslewicz -CN Utility Consulting, LLC
In addition to detailing the specific findings about the August 14th Blackout, this report presents an overview of the UVM industry to provide a technical and industry context for understanding the findings…

» Rules of Practice and Procedure

» Rural ICT Market Opportunity Report: Cameroon

» Security of Electricity Supply
Union of the Electricity Industry (EURELECTRIC)

» Seven Guiding Principles for Effective Electricity Market Regulation

» Stakeholder Concerns and Balancing Interests

» State of Japan Electricity Industry

» State Of The Market Report 2003 - FERC Briefing
Joseph E. Bowring -PJM Market Monitoring Unit

» Survey of State Incentives Encouraging Improved Environmental Performance of Base-Load Electric Generation Facilities: Policy and Regulatory Initiatives
A comprehensive survey to examine State approaches and/or incentives to improve the environmental performance of base-load electricity generation facilities. This survey is a tool for State energy and environmental officials to encourage the utilities to upgrade existing base-load generation facilities through incentives, mandates and rate cases. This report is a non-scientific examination of survey results…

» Sustainable Energy Policy: The World Chooses Liberalization
Tom Flaherty and Branko Terzic -Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

» Terzic End of the Year Issue 2005
World Bank

» Typical District Heating System

» Units Converter

» University of California Energy Institute (UCEI) Working Papers

» US Blackout Final Report
Significant information and reports about the blackout investigation

» What International Investors Look for When Investing in Developing Countries: Results from a Survey of International Investors in the Power Sector
The survey set out to gauge the interest of international investors in the power sectors of developing countries and to identify the conditions in developing countries that investors perceive as important when making decisions on new investments or judging the performance of existing ones…

» World Bank/IMF Discussion Room, Papers & Links on Utility Regulation
Collection of research, case studies, Web sites, and data tables to learn about best practice utility regulation…

» 1st OOCUR Annual Conference
September 2003, Port of Spain

» 2nd Annual Global Regulatory Network Conference and PPA/Contracts Workshop
July 2004, Bamako

» Foundations Course in Utility Regulation in Africa
August 2004, Cape Town

» Independent Power Producers and Power Purchase Agreements Workshop
May 2004, Cape Town