A Review and Early Assessment of Public Benefit Policies Under Electric Restructuring - Volume 2: A Summary of Key Features, Stakeholder Reactions,and Lessons Learned to Date

Martin Kushler and Patti Witte  

September 2000

 

Executive Summary

This document is the second volume of a two-part study comprising the first comprehensive national review and assessment of public benefit policies and approaches being taken in states that have restructured their electric industry. This report presents a detailed summary of the key features of the public benefits policies that have been established in those states, and a review of the current status of administration and implementation of those policies. It also provides the results of a qualitative assessment of those policies by key interested parties in each of those states, with a focus on major lessons learned. The material in this report is based on information obtained from each state's restructuring legislation and/or regulatory orders, as well as interviews with state officials, utilities, advocates, and other interested parties in those states.

96 pp., 2000, $12.00, U003