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Topics Listed BelowThe New Electric Companies in New York State Reports, Articles and Comments The Public Service Commission “End State?Proceeding Electric Industry Restructuring in New York. The electric industry is being restructured, changing from the familiar monopoly electric company providing "bundled" service to a multi-provider environment in which some formerly bundled service elements, such as electric energy, are "unbundled" and provided by competitive companies. This is somewhat analogous to the way in which long distance telephone service was unbundled from local service in the 1980's. There are, however, several important differences. The Public Service Commision (PSC) largely deregulated the new providers, and eliminated important customer protections. PULP opposed administrative restructuring of the industry by the PSC without comprehensive legislative action to address the issues of the obligation to serve, universal service, affordable energy prices, low income rates and customer protection. PULP maintains that general retail electric competition is not workable without revision of New York's existing statutory paradigm. The documents below address issues faced by consumers in the restructured environment. For further information, contact PULP. General Information (Top)Critical Information For NYSEG Customers About Alternative Electric Service Companies - 10-8-02 NASUCA Adopts Resolution Favoring Stable Rates for Residential Default Service Customers - 6-19-02 California Schemin? Did Manipulation of Electricity Supplies Cost You Money? - Edward Sheets - 5-10-02 PULP Testimony on the Impact of the Enron Bankruptcy on Energy Markets, U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality - 2-13-02 Attachments To Testimony Assembly Passes The New York State Transitional Energy Plan on June 11, 2001 - 6/14/01 Attachments to Testimony: Outline of Orders and Issues in New York Electric Industry Restructuring (1/31/01) Questions and Answers about Electric and Gas Utility Competition The New Electric Companies in New York State (Top)New York City Price Crisis (Top)New Yorkers fear summer power struggle - Guardian Unlimited - 5/03/01 NY Assemblyman Proposes State Buy And Run 3 Power Plants -Dow Jones - (4/19/01)Democrats Want NY to Buy Old Con Ed Power Plants -Reuters - (4/19/01) Let State Buy Con Ed Plants - (4/19/01)
The Electric $hock Treatment - N.Y. Post - 3/21/01 Con Edison Asks FERC to Close Loopholes That Enable New York Generators to Exercise Market Power 3/02/01 Con Edison Urges Major Reforms For Electricity Marketplace To Protect Consumers - Cities Flaws In Price Bidding Process - Sept. 28, 2000 Deregulation and Weather Fail to Cool Electric Rates Con Ed Bills Spike 43% Hike despite cool July ENRON Articles Reports, Articles and Comments (ToLegacy of Power Cost Manipulation - New York Times- 12-22-02 Utility Choice Isn't Working Out For Consumers - Buffalo News - 12-22-02 Electricity Deregulation in New York State - 1996 - 2002 - 11/08/02ACN Energy Denied Financing - Kansas City Star - 10-30-02Crisis Brewing Across State in Power Generation - Buffalo News - 10-29-02New York’s “Perfect Storm? An Industry in Crisis: The Financial Condition of Electric Generating Companies in New York State - 10-18-02 All Pain - No Gain: Restructuring adn Deregulation in the Interstate Electricity Market - CFA - Dr. Mark Cooper - 9-02 California Energy Crisis A Sham - CBS News - 9-17-02 An Analysis of Residential Energy Markets in Georgia, Massachusetts, Ohio, New York and Texas, NCAT - 9-17-02. Regulation’s Rationale: Learning from the California Energy Crisis - Yale Journal - Summer 2002 Nuclear Insecurity:The Increasing Use of Limited Liability Companies and MultiTiered Holding Companies to Own Nuclear Power Plants - Synapse Energy Economics 8-7-02 Central Hudson Supply Options Open - Poughkeepsie Journal - 5-29-02 Monitoring Unit Checks for Price Manipulations in N.Y. - Poughkeepsie Journal - 5-29-02 New Rules Fail to Create Cheaper Power, - Poughkeepsie Journal - 5/29/02 Energy Service Choices Limited in Hudson Valley - Poughkeepsie Journal - 5/29/02 RG&E Maintaining Stable Prices with Plants and Contracts - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle - 5/29/02 Report on Capacity Withholding Equilibrium in Wholesale Electricity Markets - 4-08-02 AARP New York Energy Survey - 3-14-2002 Secrecy in Energy-Trading Market Questioned in Congressional Hearing - 2-15-02Lawmakers Vow to Fix Georgia's Natural Gas Law - 2-15-02California Lawmakers Intensify Probes of Energy Price Gouging - 2-15-02How Deregulation Let the Power Industry Steal $71 Billion From California, - (Foundation For Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. 1/17/02) The halt of restructuring is not merely due to “bumps in the road?on the way to the idealized marketplace. A renewed commitment to universal service at reasonable rates is needed. Disconnected Policymakers - Electricity Journal - 9-01Deregulation Of Electricity Isn’t Working Out As Hoped - 9/02/01 Can Residential and Low Income Customers be Protected When the Experiment Goes Awry? - Update - 9/01 Electricity Deregulation and Consumers: Lessons From A Hot Spring and A Cool Summer - Mark Cooper - CFA - 8/30/01 Lowering Electricity Prices through Deregulation, Fed. Reserve Bank of NY, 12/00 Energy Prices And The Home Energy Assistance Program - 7/13/01 ?/FONT>JUST AND REASONABLE?RATES vs. PRICE CAPS AT FERC - Tellus Institute 6/19/01 FERC Order On Rehearing Of Monitoring & Mitigation Plan for California Wholesale Electric Markets - 6/19/01 Business group favors new N.Y. power plants - 6/19/01 PULP’s Comments On Protection of ESCO Customer Credit Balances - 06/11/01. Power Politics: A Failed Energy Plan Catches Up to New York - New York Times 6/1/01 Pennsylvania Utilities: How Are Consumers, Workers, and Corporations Faring In the Deregulated Electricity, Gas, and Telephone Industries? ( Complete report with attachments available at www.keystoneresearch.org ) Prominent Economists Urge End to FERC Experiment With Market-Based Ratemaking and Return to Setting Just and Reasonable Rates By Traditional Cost of Service Methods O&R customers likely to sweat over electric bills - Times Herald-Record 5/30/01 The Progressive Pro-Consumer Solution To Today’s Electricity Crisis: Just and Reasonable Rates, Tellus Institute (5/15/01) Can Residential and Low Income Customers be Protected When the Experiment Goes Awry? by Barbara Alexander (4/01) PSC Approves Retail Access Plan for Con Edison to Pay $65 for Each Customer Signed Up by its Competitors (4/09/01) “When Will Small Customers Really Benefit From Deregulation?by R.B. Catell CEO of Keyspan (4/03/01) NYSEG White Paper on New York State’s Electric Energy Crisis (4/01) Behind the Headlines of Electricity Restructuring - CFA Report by Dr. Mark Cooper - 3/20/01 Attorney General’s Action Plan for a Balanced Electric Power Policy in New York State - 3/20/01 New York State Senate Energy Tax Reduction Proposals - 1/01 Adamantine Customers and the Utility Restructuring Juggernaut NYS Assembly Plan, Competition Plus Energy 2000 - 6/99 NYS Assembly Report - The Electric Industry in New York - 10/97 NYS Assembly Electric Industry Restructuring Plan, “Competition Plus?- 3/96 New York ISO Issues (Top)
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The Public Service Commission “End State?ProceedingObligation to Serve (Top)PULP’s Reply Brief on Exceptions Regarding Provider of Last Resort - 8-28-01 PULP’s Brief on Exceptions Regarding Provider of Last Resort - 8-9-01 PSC’s Recommended Decision - Provider of Last Resort - 7-13-01 Stronger Consumer Protections Proposed for Next Phases of Transition to Competitive Energy Markets - 7-18-01
PULP Comments on Energy Competition - Next Steps Phase I & Phase II Report - 3/27/01 PSC Report - Energy Competition - Next Steps - Phase I and II - Consensus Report 1/01 Brief of PULP on Legal Issues in Response to January 11, 2001 PSC Procedural Ruling 2/16/01 Link to Documents at the PSC’s Page on Energy Competition - The Next Steps Unbundling Issues (Top)Rate freeze heats up a debate - Times Union - 4/22/01
Press Releases (Top)Energetix, Inc. Rescinds Natural Gas Rate Increase in Agreement with New York PSC (4/10/01) Con Edison Asks FERC to Close Loopholes That Enable New York Generators to Exercise Market Power 3/02/01 Con Edison Urges Major Reforms For Electricity Marketplace To Protect Consumers - Cities Flaws In Price Bidding Process - Sept. 28, 2000 PULP’s Utility Specific Restructuring Pages (Top)Consolidated Edison Restructuring
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