might being a retail electric customer in 5--10 years differ from now? Seizing opportunities to reduce cost of electric …

-utility industry. Industry-wide transition cost estimates range from about $20 billion to $500 billion. Such disparate estimates raise … transition costs. The study has three objectives. First, we discuss the concept of transition cost. Second, we identify the major … cost categories included in transition cost estimates and summarize the current debate on which specific costs are …

rates, lower costs, or improve nonprice performance relative traditional regulation, which the authors call cost …

from different Western contractual and operational policies. Retail rates are the mechanism by which changes in cost …

The issue of possibly unrecoverable cost incurred by a utility, or `stranded costs,` has emerged as a major obstacle to … idea of `stranded cost,` and more importantly arguments for its recovery, is a concept with little basis in economic theory … utilities minimize costs. A broader definition of efficiency and the likelihood of cost inefficiencies in the industry suggest …

always be the case. Determining the applicability and cost-effectiveness of alternative rate schedules is a complicated …

least-cost plans. More narrowly, however, the issues, discussion, and conclusions apply with equal force whenever a utility … implements cost-effective demand-side measures, whether as part of a least-cost plan or not. To a lesser extent, the paper … addresses how these issues relate to many supply-side options, particularly cogeneration and renewable resources. Least-cost …

Significant features of average system cost (ASC) methodology adopted are: retention of the jurisdictional approach …'s weighted cost of debt securities; exclusion of income taxes; simplification of separation procedures for subsidized generation …