His fields of specialization are Industrial Organization and Econometric Theory. His recent work studies methods for introducing competition into infrastructure industriestelecommunications, electricity, water delivery and postal delivery services-and on assessing the impacts of these competition po
The California Electricity Crisis: Editors’ Introduction
✍ Scribed by Carl Blumstein; Richard Green
- Book ID
- 110400772
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 38 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1566-1679
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The widely held view that FERC ''failed'' in its oversight of Western power markets is overly simplistic. It ignores the physical and political realities of the crisis. Above all, it ignores the fact that the crisis was solved not by FERC intervention but by vigorous state action that restored the b
The factors most often cited as the causes of the California crisis are the scarcity of generation capacity, a flawed market design, and the venality of electricity producers. However, many of these attributes were present in other electricity markets, none of which have suffered through anything li
Federal policymakers must not neglect to rationalize the allocation of jurisdiction between federal and state regulators, remove impediments to the expansion of the interstate transmission grid, and support the development of demand-side responsiveness to market pricing.