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| NARUC Membership Directory (2010) |
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| NARUC Blue Bulletin Service; (Biweekly); E-mail Only (2009) |
| The Bulletin is the official organ of the NARUC. It is published biweekly by the NARUC Washington Staff. The Bulletin reports important regulatory agency and court decisions, Congressional legislative matters, and other significant events affecting the regulation of electric, gas, telephone, water and sewer utilities, and cable television systems. |
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| Regulations to Govern the Preservation of Records of Electric, Gas and Water Utilities (2007) |
| The regulations in this publication are designed to apply to all books of accounts and other records prepared by or on behalf of the public utility or licensee. They are not intended to be construed as excusing compliance with any other lawful requirement for the preservation of records for periods longer or shorter than those prescribed in the publication. The publication covers such records as corporate and general; automatic data processing; general accounting; insurance; operations and maintenance; personnel; plant and depreciation; purchases and stores; revenue accounting and collecting; tax; treasury; and miscellaneous, including records of predecessors and former associates or reports to Federal and State regulatory commissions. |
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| Audit Report on the Expenditures of the Edison Electric Institute (For the 12 month period ended December 31, 1997) (1997) |
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| Residential Electric Bills, Winter 1995-96 (1997) |
| Residential electric utility bills increased 1.1 percent between the winters of 1995 and 1996. The nationwide average cost of electricity during the winter 1995-96 winter months was 9.2 cents per Kwh. A total of 188 distinct service territories were surveyed. The bills for residential electric service for the months of December, January and February were reported to the NARUC for four different levels of energy consumption--250 Kwh, 500 Kwh, 750 Kwh, and 1,000 Kwh. The utility with the highest rate is ranked 1 while the utility with the lowest is ranked 188). A regional analysis of electric bills showed that rates in the Northeast and New England regions were the most expensive while those of the Northwest and Rocky Mountain regions were least expensive. |
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| Residential Gas Bills, Winter 1995-96 (1997) |
| A large difference--over 740 percent--separates the natural gas utility service territories with the highest and lowest winter gas costs in the country, according to the results of the latest survey of gas utility bills for the winter months of 1995-96. The report compares non-space heating ans space heating gas bills for the months of December 1995, January 1996, and February 1996 for 195 territories serviced by the major regulated gas utilities in 49 States and the District of Columbia. The survey lists each month's bill for 10, 30, and 50 therms of gas. Gas utilities' space heating bills are presented for "typical" (average) levels of gas consumption in each of the winter months as well as for 100 therms. Bill computations are based on the rate schedule applicable to the majority of a utility's space and non-space heating customers within each state. The total bill includes the base rate, the purchased gas adjustment charge, and all taxes (except sales taxes not covered by the rate schedule but collected by the utility for the tax imposing authority). The number of customers and the largest company served under each schedule are also reported. |
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| Evaluating Energy-Efficiency Programs In a Restructured Industry Environment: A Handbook for PUC Staff (1997) |
| This handbook is intended for the use of State regulators and their staff in their oversight and review of energy-efficiency program evaluation activities and reports. The handbook is also designed to assist regulators in planning for evaluation of energy efficiency programs as the electric industry transitions to amore competitive environment. |
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| Bell Operating Companies Exchange Service Telephone Rates for 1997 (1997) |
| This report, based on rate information supplied to NARUC by Bellcore, lists the basic exchange service rate information for the Bell Operating Companies, Southern New England Telephone, the Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company (Kentucky and Ohio), GTE (Hawaii), and ATU (Alaska). In several cases, the number of access lines by rate group and business and residence class of service is also provided. Information is provided which includes (1) installation charges for new single-line residence and business services not requiring a field visit; (2) installation charges for new residence and business service requiring a field visit to install dropline and connection block; (3) interstate end user charges for residence, single-line, and multi-line business customers; (4) number of access lines connected between January 1 and December 31 for 1996 and 1997; (5) the number of residential "work at home" lines and monthly rate; (6) number of residence customers utilizing the Federal (interstate) Lifeline program (reduced end user charges); and (7) exchanges associated with each local rate group. |
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| Profiles of Regulatory Agencies of the U.S. and Canada, Yearbook 1995-1996 (1996) |
| This report provides comprehensive descriptions of each NARUC member regulatory agency, including: jurisdiction summaries, commissioners' biographical information, agency structures and staff allocations, budget summaries, tabulations of complaints and proceedings, and agency practices and procedures in a variety of areas. |
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| Utility Regulatory Policy in the U.S. and Canada, 1995-1996 (1996) |
| This report contains over 300 tables of information, each of which compares particular regulatory authorities of the States, U.S. territories and the Canadian provinces. General topics include, but are not limited to: corporate and financial reglation, safety regulation, consumer rights protections, rate base determination and billing practices, composite accounting statistics, environmental and energy conservation practices, and company-by-company rate case information. |
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| 108th NARUC Annual Convention Proceedings; San Francisco, California, November 18-21, 1996. (1996) |
| Two Volumes; hard back, case bound; contains all 1996 Committee and Executive Director Reports, resolutions, NARUC membership and committee lists and the following presentations: Addresses: The Challenge That Remains--Implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; The Electric Customers Power to Choose Act; Looking Beyond FERC Order 888: Where Do We Go From Here?; President's Address; Telecommunications; Thinking the Unthinkable and the Challenges to Good Planning and Policy. Panel Discussions: Commissioners' Roundtable on Electric Industry Restructuring; Competition in Video and Telephony: Diverse Perspectives; Comprehensive Review of the Pacific Northwest Power System; Energy Customer Panel; Environmental Concerns Associated With Electric Utility; Restructuring; Implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Current Status of Arbitration; Mergers, Consolidations, and Anti-Trust Considerations in the Electric Power and Telecommunications Industries; Regulatory Implications of the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1996; The Role of Natural Gas in a Fuel-Neutral World; Telecommunications Customer Panel; The Tools of Success for Natural Gas: Information, Communications, Technology, and Customer Focus; Universal Service: Discussion of the Recommendations from the Joint Board; Visions of an Efficient 21st Century Electric Power Industry. |
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| Public Utility Depreciation Practices (1996) |
| The purpose of this manual is to present background material and operating practices for the determination of depreciation of public utility property for regulatory purposes. The information contained in the manual was compiled by the NARUC's Staff Subcommittee on Depreciation with the intended purpose of presenting current practices and methods of determining depreciation and to update the previous edition. The publication begins with a discussion of the history of depreciation noting significant court decisions, regulatory statutes and practices regarding depreciation. It also includes background material sufficient for an understanding of depreciation practices. The manual also describes early depreciation methodologies and jurisdiction over depreciation practices. The remainder of the manual describes in great detail the many variables to be considered in determining depreciation including current concepts of depreciation, accounting for plant assets, general depreciation accounting, computing depreciation, mortality concepts, turnover and simulation analyses, actuarial life analyses, the "generation arrangement", the life span method, estimating salvage and cost of removal, equal life group depreciation rates, theoretical reserve studies, and the effects of expensing on a utility's performance. |
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| Bell Operating Companies Exchange Service Telephone Rates for 1996 (1996) |
| This report, based on rate information supplied to NARUC by Bellcore, lists the basic exchange service rate information of the Bell Operating Companies, Southern New England Telephone, the Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company (Kentucky and Ohio), GTE (Hawaii), and ATU (Alaska). In several cases, the number of access lines by rate group and business and residence class of service is also provided. Information is provided which includes (1)installation charges for new single-line residence and business services not requiring a field visit; (2) installation charges for new residence and business service requiring a field visit to install dropline and connection block; (3) interstate end user charges for residence, single-line, and multi-line business customer; (4) number of access lines connected between January 1 and December 31 for 1996 and 1997; (5) the number of residential "work at home" lines and monthly rate; (6) number of residence customers utilizing the Federal (interstate) Lifeline program (reduced end user charges); and (7) exchanges associated with each local rate group. |
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| Uniform System of Accounts for Class A Wastewater Utilities (1996) |
| For utilities having annual wastewater operating revenues of $1,000,000 or more; loose-leaf |
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| Uniform System of Accounts for Class A Water Utilities (1996) |
| For utilities having annual water operating revenues of $1,000,000 or more; loose-leaf |
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| Uniform System of Accounts for Class B Wastewater Utilities (1996) |
| For utilities having annual wastewater operating revenues of $200,000 or more but less than $999,999; loose-leaf |
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| Uniform System of Accounts for Class B Water Utilities (1996) |
| For utilties having annual water operating revenues of $200,000 or more but less than $999,999; loose-leaf |
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| Uniform System of Accounts for Class C Wastewater Utilities (1996) |
| For utilities having annual wastewater operating revenues of less than $200,000; loose-leaf |
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| Uniform System of Accounts for Class C Water Utilities (1996) |
| For utilities having annual water operating revenue of less than $200,000; loose-leaf |
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| Gas Integrated Resource Planning and Demand-Side Management: A Compendium of Case Studies (1995) |
| More than 40 gas utilities were interviewed and 19 utilities contributed IRP/DSM-related programs or techniques to the report to be used as case studies. The report contains a summary of all the utilities' discussion about issues surrounding their businesses and the challenges each of them face, as well as their insights into the future of the gas utility industry. The first section of the report describes traditional DSM programs by describing eight programs contributed by seven different utilities. The next section of the report describes nine programs that are jointly sponsored. Market-driven DSM programs are addressed in the third section of the report, and strategic planning programs are offered in the fourth section. |
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| Management Audit Manual--Volume III (1995) |
| This is the third volume in a series of reports which are published to advance the understanding of the management analysis process by addressing various important aspects of performing management audits. Prepared by the NARUC's Staff Subcommittee on Management Analysis, this third volume defines general procedures for approving plans of action and monitoring progress toward the implementation of those recommendations which were included in the audit report. |
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| Transportation Regulatory Policy, 1994-1995 (1995) |
| This report contains information about State and Federal regulatory agencies. Part 1, lists names, addresses, phone and fax numbers and commissioners' names and terms of office for more than 100 regulatory agencies. The second section summarizes each agency's general jurisdiction over utilities and carriers. Part B contains information supplied by the agencies on regulatory ratemaking jurisdiction over motor carriers in each of the States, the District of Columbia, and in several provinces of Canada, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Part C covers State regulation of railroads, including the number of railroads under each agency's jurisdiction and the citation of authority, as well as the general scope of each agency's authority. Part D summarizes transportation rate cases considered by each agency during 1994 and early 1995, including motor freight and motor passenger carriers and other miscellaneous carriers. The publication includes a detailed subject index, more than 130 pages of tables and charts, as well as a Glossary of Terms used in utility and carrier regulation. |
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| Bell Operating Companies Long Distance Message Telephone Rates (in effect December 31, 1994) (1994) |
| For each State, statistics are provided on the average length of an intrastate intraLATA call; the percentage of total calls and/or minutes of use made within each mileband; and where possible, the total minutes of use of intrastate intraLATA toll. Rate information includes long distance message telephone rate structures; cost of an initial minute and additional minutes of use for customer dialed minutes; and reduced rate periods and rate distances. Sales and excise taxes are not included in rates. |
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| Regulatory Treatment of Embedded Costs Exceeding Market Prices (1994) |
| This report is divided into two parts. The first part addresses under what circumstances should embedded costs exceeding market prices be recovered by utilities; the second part focuses on how embedded costs exceeding market prices should be recovered, provided it must be recovered. |
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| Electric Power Technology--Emerging Technologies and New Applications of Old Technologies (1994) |
| This report is offered as a sequel to "Electric Power Technology: Options for Utility Generation and Storage". It highlights four different technologies of electric generation and some major new developments in each, including fuel cells, photovoltaic technology, internal combustion, and whole-tree combustors. |
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| Regulating DSM Program Evaluation: Policy and Administrative Issues for Public Utility Commissions (1994) |
| This report establishes a framework for addressing the issues by first discussing the challenges DSM evaluation poses for State PUCs, the uses of evaluation results, and some of the concepts that underlie evaluation methods. |
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| Aligning Rate Design Policies With Integrated Resource Planning (1994) |
| This report discusses how State utility commissions can set retail electric rates that are consistent or aligned with the resource plans of electric utilities. Two of the basic premises of the report are that the rate design process for electric utilities scan be improved by aligning it with integrated resource planning and that this alignment can contribute to the success of an electric utility's IRP. The report's authors observe that substantial changes in current rate design procedures will be necessary in most, if not all, States if rate design policy is to aligned with IRP. |
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| Primer on Gas Integrated Resource Planning (1993) |
| The Primer on Gas IRP explains the many technical and regulatory issues involved in Gas IRP, which involves a comprehensive assessment of a gas utility's supply and demand-side resource options in meeting the long-term service needs of its customers. Interest in gas IRP has increased in recent years due to several factors, among which are the gas utility industry's ongoing restructuring, the widespread adoption of electric IRP processes by State commissions, and the requirement under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 for State commission consideration of gas IRP standards. The primer presents both the potential benefits and drawbacks of IRP as a regulatory process and presents several approaches that States may take to achieve IRP benefits. In addition to focusing on regulatory structures that achieve IRP benefits, it focuses on specific technical areas, including analytic methods and models used to conduct an IRP process, gas utility supply and capacity planning in a post-636 world, methods for estimating avoided gas costs, methods for estimating the net benefits of utility-sponsored demand-side management programs, utility DSM resource assessment and program design, utility fuel substitution programs, and ratemaking methods addressing the utility financial impacts of DSM programs. |
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| Environmental Externalities and Electric Utility Regulation (1993) |
| This report describes the different policy issues and options facing State commissions in considering the question of incorporating environmental externalities in the regulation of electric utilities. The report has four distinct features. It first presents an overview of the definitions, concepts and opposing views related to the consideration of environmental externalities by State regulators of electric utilities. Second, it provides an analysis of the methods States have used to consider environmental externalities and discusses the problems and benefits associated with various procedures and mechanisms for incorporating externalities in the regulatory process. Third, it presents case studies of how six States have approached the consideration of environmental externalities. Fourth, it provides the reader with references and summaries of recent articles and books on the topic of environmental externalities. |
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| Electric and Telephone Utility Stockholder Returns - 1972-1992 (1993) |
| Common stock shareholders of the largest regulated electric and telephone utilities in the U.S. averaged higher returns on their investments and at less risk than shareholders of non-regulated U.S. industrial companies, according this report. The results are based on a method that assumes shareholders' dividends were reinvested in the stocks over the 21-year period. However, a second method, which does not take dividend reinvestment into account, showed 45% of electric and telecommunications utility stockholders generated higher rates of return than did the average stockholder of non-regulated U.S. industrial corporations over the same 21-year period. A third method of determining returns, which used an investor's wealth regarding ownership of a particular stock, showed that 73% of electric and telecommunications utility stockholders earned a higher return than did stockholders of major non-regulated U.S. industrial corporations from 1972-1992. The results of these three methods demonstrate that utility companies were both less risky and a more profitable investments for common stockholders than the average non-regulated corporation. |
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| Update to the Maine and Missouri Reports on Alternative Regulation Plans in Telecommunications (1993) |
| The report is an update to the State by State Report on Telecommunications Alternative Regulation Plans, and contains updated summaries of each state's current regulatory methods or plans and a description of alternative regulatory plans currently being considered. Section 1 of the report is the edited descriptive paragraphs for each Stte and the District of Columbia. Section 2 provides a current list of all the contact persons who responded to the survey from each State and the District of Columbia. Section 3 is a spreadsheet outline of each State's alternative regulatory plan if applicable. |
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| Cost Allocation for Electric Utility Conservation and Load Management Programs (1993) |
| This report discusses issues related to allocation electric utilities' conservation and load management costs among customer classes and rate classifications. The first two chapters of the report provide a background for understanding the analysis of conservation and load management cost allocation. Chapter three reviews the results of a survey of 12 State commissions which regulate electric utilities that are undertaking significant cost and load management programs. The fourth chapter describes a series of cost causation, economic efficiency and equity principles that may be considered in deciding how to allocate cost and load management costs, lost revenues and incentives. Chapter five focuses on issues related to rate impacts on non-participants and non-participating customer classes, which chapter six identifies some of the significant issues that may be addressed in implementing marginal cost or embedded cost approaches to cost and load management cost allocation. Chapter seven discusses eight alternative methodologies of cost and load management cost allocation, and the final chapter contains conclusions and recommendations based on the survey of State commissions and the preceding discussion. |
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| Gas Integrated Resource Planning Workshop Proceedings (1992) |
| These proceedings are from the 1992 Gas Integrated Resource Planning Workshop held in Los Angeles, California. They include summaries of presentations made by various speakers and the text of some of these presentations. Comments from Industrial Gas Consumers are also included in the report. |
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| Management Audit Manual--Volume II (1992) |
| This volume discusses the importance of audit planning and the use and development of audit plans. Sample generic work steps for conducting a management audit are also included. The NARUC Staff Subcommittee on Management Analysis wrote this report with the purpose of providing a working model of audit steps for various functional areas by which the staff of utility regulatory agencies may conduct management audits or monitor audits by independent consultants. The report notes that audit plans are simply a tool whose design, format and content are dictated by the circumstances under which the audit takes place. |
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| Report on Natural Gas Cooling (1992) |
| A report explaining the regulatory and technical issues concerning natural gas cooling, the report's summary explains that although gas cooling accounts for only 5% of the total U.S. cooling market, its development and growth are increasing due to a number of factors. Among these are technological advances that have allowed gas cooling to become an efficient and cost-effective option for commercial, institutional and industrial buildings; concern about future costs and availability of refrigerants; price declines in natural gas; and the possibility of increasing summer, low-cost gas use while reducing the use of peak-season, peak-hour electricity. According to the report's summary, integrated resource planning for electric and gas utilities may be the best way to bring to light the factors that State commissions should consider when deciding whether and how to support gas cooling in their jurisdictions. |
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| Telephone Service Quality Handbook (1992) |
| This handbook was developed to assist regulatory agencies in the development and administration of a program of service quality analysis for telecommunication utilities. The first section discusses consumer complaints. The second section discusses the various categories of performance evaluation. The third section includes techniques for field investigation of utility performance and a discussion of recent Federal actions related to telephone quality of service. The last section describes the use of customer surveys by utilities and regulatory agencies in evaluating the level of service quality. Appendices A through I include various summaries and examples of information that may be helpful to the regulatory analyst. Appendix A is a matrix comparing the State regulatory rules in effect, arranged by categories according to the structure of the NARUC Model Telecommunication Service Rules. Appendices B through E are examples of reports provided to telecommunications carriers upon completion of field investigations. Appendices F and G provide examples of customer service surveys used by State regulatory agencies. Appendix H contains the responses from a questionnaire regarding the service evaluation programs of various States. Appendix I is a listing of State regulatory agency staff members who are involved in service quality work. |
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| Telecommunications Alternative Regulation Plans (1992) |
| This report was prepared by the Maine Public Utilities Commission for the NARUC Staff Subcommittee on Communications. It contains updated summaries of each State's current regulatory methods or plans and a description of alternative regulatory plans currently being considered. Section 1 of the report is the edited descriptive paragraphs for each State and the District of Columbia. Section 2 provides a current list of all the contact personas who responded to the survey form each State and the District of Columbia. Section 3 is a spreadsheet outline of each State's alternative regulatory plan if applicable. |
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| Electric and Natural Gas Utility Uncollectible Accounts and Service Disconnections for 1990 (1992) |
| This survey report shows the level of uncollectible accounts and service disconnections for electric gas utilities in 1990, and the State public utility commissions' policies regarding residential service terminations and payment measures. Information in the report is based on a two-part survey conducted by NARUC and compiled by Response Analysis Corporation of Princeton, New Jersey. Section I of the report shows the responses from 324 electric and gas utilities to a series of questions about their residential billings, arrearages, bad debt expense and service terminations. Section II provides information from State commissions regarding their policies for notifying customers of overdue bills and possible service terminations; special policies and rates for low-income and elderly households; and coordination with other State social service agencies. According to this portion of the report, all 50 commissions surveyed have policies in effect regarding service terminations for non-payment of electric or gas service. In addition, most State commissions have special policies regarding service terminations for the heating season, with these policies usually barring any termination during these months. |
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| Electric Utility Cost Allocation Manual (1992) |
| This manual explains the principles and theories of cost allocation in the electric utility industry. Section I of the manual includes a chapter explaining the electric utility industry in the United States, its history, and a description of the physical characteristics of power plants whose costs are allocated. This section also includes an overview of cost of service studies and summarizes the cost allocation process; and another chapter reviews the development of the utility's revenue requirements, providing the concepts of a test year and the determination of the utility's rate base, rate of return and operating expenses. Section II contains five chapters that explain the dominant method of cost allocation - the embedded cost study, which is based upon historical or known utility costs. Areas covered are production costs, transmission costs, distribution costs and the classification and allocation of customer-related costs and investments. Section III review marginal cost of service studies. In contrast to embedded cost of service studies, use of marginal cost methodologies in ratemaking is based on arguments of economic efficiency. |
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| Report on Gas Excess Flow Valves (1991) |
| This seven-chapter report contains synopses of previous studies by the Gas Research Institute and utilities to determine the effectiveness of EFVs and reports on the results of California and New Hampshire tests on the performance of EFVs under different criteria. Also contained in the report are the results of a survey of State regulatory agency opinions regarding EFVs. The final chapter of the report contains the Subcommittee on Pipeline Safety's conclusions and recommendations. According to the report, the wide scale use of EFVs is not appropriate because: (1) the use of EFVs is site specific; (2) it has not been established that system-wide use of EFVs is cost effective; (3) gas bleed-by for some EFVs is excessive and could create safety problems; and (4) the ability of EFVs to reduce damage to residential dwellings is limited. |
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| Electric Power Technology--Options for Utility Generation and Storage (1991) |
| The utility options discussed in this report are: coal-fired steam plants; fluidized-bed combustion; fossil-fuel plant life extension; solid waste; wood-fired generation; integrated gasification combined cycle; combined cycle; fuel cells; combustion turbines; wind power; compressed air energy storage; photovoltaic electric generation; superconductivity--energy storage; and solar thermal. Each technology was evaluated by an analyst using a set of cost parameters under two general scenarios; a low-cost case that assumed, among other things, low capital and operating costs and a high-cost case based on higher startup and operating costs. To put all the technologies on an equal footing, these costs were levelized or averaged over a certain period of time. This produced a levelized cost per kilowatt hour and a range of costs. As the report cautions, regional and site-specific factors could lead to considerably different cost estimates for each of the technologies. It advises that the cost data should be used as a screening tool for a specific area, and that a more detailed analysis may be needed for that area. |
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| Considerations for Evaluating Local Distribution Company Gas Purchasing Choices (1990) |
| This report, prepared by the NARUC Staff Subcommittee on Gas under the direction of the Committee on Gas, has a two-fold purpose: to discuss factors relevant to determining an LDC's purchase strategy, and to examine a number of alternative methods by which State Public Service Commissions might oversee LDC gas purchasing choices. As noted in the introduction of the report, LDCs now have more gas supply and transportation choices facing them, largely due to the restructuring of the industry that has taken place since the FERC adopted policies of unbundling gas pipeline services and allowing open access transportation. Succeeding sections of the report discuss the relationship between supply, capacity and reliability; the issues and questions that should be addressed in an LDC gas supply plant; and finally, alternative methods that State utility commissions might use to oversee LDC gas buying decisions. Three methods of evaluating LDC gas buying strategies appear in Section V of the report. The pros and cons of using any approach, as well as the possibility of combining approaches, also are discussed. |
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| Environmental Externalities: A Survey of State Commission Actions (1990) |
| This report is the result of a survey conducted by the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the request of the NARUC Staff Subcommittee on Energy Conservation of what State commissions are doing to incorporate environmental externalities into the regulation of electric utilities. The survey found that 17 out of the 50 commissions responding have adopted explicit rules pertaining to environmental externalities, with most requiring electric utilities to consider environmental externalities in their resource planning and/or acquisition processes. There were three typical approaches used by State commissions to incorporate environmental externalities: (1) a qualitative treatment by the utility during the resource planning process; (2) use of a percentage adder that either increases the cost of supply resources or decreases the cost of demand-side management resources in the utility's planning process; and (3) direct quantification of the cost of the externality, which usually occurs when a utility develops a competitive bid. The survey also found several State commissions using approaches that implicitly incorporate externalities into the ratemaking process by permitting higher rates of return for resource alternatives that were deemed environmentally benign. loose-leaf |
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| Electric Power Technology (1990) |
| This report examines the cost effectiveness of 12 different generation and energy conservation options available to utility customers. The customer options discussed fall into two general categories: self-generation and energy conservation technologies. The self-generation technologies reviewed included combustion turbines; wood-fired plants; wind power units; fuel cells; and small internal combustion engines. The other options reviewed included battery storage systems; home weatherization measures; active solar thermal applications for water, space and process heating; energy efficient lighting; appliance efficiency standards; building performance standards; and cool storage. The report was written for the purpose of giving State utility regulators comparisons of the costs of each electric power technologies available to residential, industrial and commercial customers. |
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| Profits and Progress Through Least Cost Planning (1989) |
| This report was written by David Moskovitz for commissioners and commission staff to encourage them to look at the earnings implications of the pursuit of least-cost plans by electric and gas utility companies. In Chapter I, Moskovitz identifies what he sees as "The Problem". In Chapter 2, he reviews "Selecting and Implementing Regulatory Reforms". In Chapter 3, he explores "Alternative Approaches" such as rate of return adjustments, shared savings, bounty, and decoupling. |
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| Gas Distribution Rate Design Manual (1989) |
| This publication gives a comprehensive overview of rate regulation of local gas distribution companies and pipelines. The report covers the rate design issues that usually come up in proceedings before State regulatory commissions and is intended to serve as a manual for State commissioners and their staff. In addition to covering the historical concepts of gas rate design, the publication discusses cost of service rates, value of service rates, cost of adjustment clauses, and transportation rates and the FERC's open access orders in this area. loose-leaf |
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| Management Audit Manual--Volume I (1988) |
| The Manual was prepared for the Staff Subcommittee on Management Analysis of the NARUC Committee on Finance and Technology. The Manual is designed to introduce the reader to the practice of management auditing as conducted by State utility regulatory commissions. |
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| Interpretations of Uniform System of Accounts for Electric and Gas Utilities (1988) |
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| Interpretations of Uniform System of Accounts for Water and Sewer Utilities (1987) |
| This summary of interpretations of the uniform system of accounts for water and sewer utilities comprises a listing of interpretations issued by the Committee on Accounts of the NARUC. It contains questions submitted for the electric and gas uniform system of accounts that also can be applied to the water and sewer uniform system of accounts. |
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| Model Telecommunications Service Rules (1987) |
| This publication provides model standards for State regulatory commissions to use in regulating the investor-owned telecommunications utilities serving their jurisdictions. Preceded by a section on definitions, the publication recommends certain standards for the retention of records, meter reading and recording equipment, billing information, reasons for denying service, customer complaints and appeals, emergency operations, maintenance, safety, and general quality of service objectives. |
| $10.80 (includes shipping) |
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| Market Structure Criteria to Evaluate Lessening Telecommunications Regulation (1987) |
| Among topics discussed in this report are the monopoly charateristics of public utilities, contestable market theory, monopolistic competition, and 17 criteria for evaluating telecommunications markets. The report was prepared by Carl E. Hunt, Jr., of the Colorado PUC, Chair of the NARUC Staff Subcommittee on Economics and Finance. |
| $12.00 (includes shipping) |
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| Depreciation Practices for Small Gas Distribution Companies (1984) |
| The manual, prepared by the Depreciation Subcommittee of the Staff Subcommittee on Engineering of the NARUC Committee on Engineering, is intended to assist the State commissions in establishing depreciation rates for small gas distribution companies. In preparing the manual, the Subcommittee analyzed data from various States and gas utilities, from which it selected typical average service lives, net salvages and annual depreciation rates by primary plant accounts. The manual includes sections on depreciation, estimate of average service life, net salvage estimate, theoretical reserve studies, weighting, recording the depreciation accrual, depreciation accounting, and testing the reasonableness and adequacy of depreciation rates. |
| $8.40 (includes shipping) |
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| Gas Rate Design (1981) |
| The publication was prepared by the NARUC Staff Subcommittee on Rate Design and approved by the NARUC Committee on Engineering and its Staff Subcommittee on Engineering. The NARUC Executive Committee adopted the "Gas Rate Design" manual at its Summer Meeting in San Diego, California. The publication is intended to serve as a "how to" manual for State commission personnel and covers the rate design issues usually raised in rate proceedings. Divided into five chapters, the manual includes information on the following areas: concepts, costing methodology, rate design, adjustment clauses, and the impact of the National Energy Act on rate design in the gas industry. A succinct list of references is also included. |
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| Interpretations of Uniform System of Accounts for Electric, Gas and Water Utilities (1981) |
| The revision contains many interpretations previously issued with respect to the prior system of accounts, as well as those issued since the present system of accounts were adopted by the NARUC in 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1981. loose-leaf |
| $4.20 (includes shipping) |
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| Uniform System of Accounts for Class A&B Electric Utilities (revisions included) (1976) |
| For utilities having annual electric operating revenues of $1,000,000 or more; loose-leaf |
| $12.00 (includes shipping) |
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| Uniform System of Accounts for Class A&B Gas Utilities (revisions included) (1976) |
| For utilities having annual gas operating revenues of $1,000,000 or more; loose-leaf |
| $12.00 (includes shipping) |
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| Uniform System of Accounts for Class C&D Electric Utilities (revisions included) (1976) |
| For utilities having annual electric operating revenues of less than $1,000,000; loose-leaf |
| $12.00 (includes shipping) |
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| Uniform System of Accounts for Class C&D Gas Utilities (revisions included) (1976) |
| For utilities having annual gas operating revenues of less than $1,000,000; loose-leaf |
| $12.00 (includes shipping) |
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