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materials for the legal course, Regulating Public Utility Performance, offered by the Regulatory Training Initiative

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Regulating Public Utility Performance: Market Structure, Pricing, Mergers, Jurisdiction

📚 Reading Material (from syllabus):

Week 1: Regulation's Purposes, Dimensions,and Professions [Jan.10]

  1. Read Alberta Utility Commission Chair's brief remarks on a century of regulation.
  2. Regulating Public Utility Performance: Read Preface and Ch.1.
  3. Take note of the document called “Hempling Legal Book: Table of Contents Diagrammed.”
  4. Preside or Lead? Read Essays 1-4, 53.

Week 2: Market Structure I: Rights, Obligations and Powers of the Traditional Utility Monopoly

  1. Regulating Public Utility Performance, Ch. 2
  2. Preside or Lead, Essays 6, 10, 11, 12, 49
  3. Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113 (1877) (consent to regulation)
  4. Application of Houston Lighting and Power, 50 PUR 4th 157 (1982) (quality of service)
  5. Narragansett Electric Company, 65 PUR 4th 198 (1985) (eminent domain)
  6. Consumers Power Co., 140 PUR4th 332 (1993) (eminent domain)
  7. Illinois Bell Switching Station, 641 N.E.2d 440 (Ill. 1994) (limits on tort liability)

Week 3: Market Structure II: Authorizing Competition in Traditional Monopoly Markets

  1. Regulating Public Utility Performance, Ch. 3
  2. Preside or Lead, Essays 18, 19, 23, 24
  3. New York Commission order on Reforming the Energy Vision, pages 1-4, 10-30, 31-35, 45-46
  4. Pennsylvania statute on retail competition in electricity [highlighted provisions]
  5. Hempling article on stranded cost

Week 4:

  1. Regulating Public Utility Performance, Ch. 4
  2. Preside or Lead, Essays 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
  3. Verizon v. Federal Communications Commission, No. 11-1355 (Jan. 15, 2014) (discussing "common carrier" obligation in the context of broadband access) (read opening 5 paragraphs only)
  4. Ohio statute on corporate separation

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materials for the legal course, Regulating Public Utility Performance, offered by the Regulatory Training Initiative