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Rate of Return No Longer a Factor in Pipeline Rates?

✍ Scribed by Willett, Robert E.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2008
Weight: 210 KB
Volume: 5
Category: Article
ISSN: 0743-5665
DOI: 10.1002/gas.3410051106

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✦ Synopsis

Today the natural gas industry is coming to be driven more by the market than by the regulators. This trend is a matter of conscious design by regulators anxious to make the industry more efficient and to keep the cost of gas low. Because rates are the means by which the regulators make their will be done, there seems to be a trend to let pipeline rates float with the market more than in previous years.

One way to deregulate rates further would be to ignore rate of return: this technique is beiig tried in other industries, like the communications industry, and some observers-including, among others, Al Statman, of the Washington law firm of Wright & Talismari-believe that the way rate structures are heading in these industries may give some idea of where the rate structures for the gas industry could be headed.

Currently in the natural gas industry, althoughignoring rate of return may be on the horizon, there are few details concerning what to replace it with.

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