chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 A brief history and theory of electric utility regulation in the United States -- chapter 3 A decentralized coordination framework for analyzing regulatory institutions -- chapter 4 Rethinking retail regulation: Enabling active demand and retail choice --...

Understanding the regulatory backdrop of the electricity sector in the U.S., and how it has shifted from one that institutionalized the natural monopoly characteristics of a fully integrated utility to one that facilitates competition through open access transmission and generation dispatch...