Changing Structure of the Electric Power Industry: An UpdateIntended for both lay & technical readers, this report serves as a basic reference tool that provides a comprehensive delineation of the electric power industry & its traditional structure, which has been based on its monopoly status. In addition, it describes the industry's transition to a competitive environment by providing a descriptive analysis of the factors that have contributed to the interest in a competitive market, proposed legislative & regulatory actions, & the steps being taken by the various components of the industry to meet the challenges of adapting to & prevailing in a competitive environment. Figures, tables, historical information. |
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Page 177 - ... keeping open for public inspection new schedules stating plainly the change or changes to be made in the schedule or schedules then in force and the time when the change or changes will go into effect. The Commission, for good cause shown, may allow changes to take effect without requiring the thirty days...
Page 181 - Appeals for any circuit wherein such person resides or has his principal place of business, or in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, by filing in such court...
Page 177 - ... notice to the Commission and to the public. Such notice shall be given by filing with the Commission and keeping open for public inspection new schedules stating plainly the change or changes to be made in the schedule or schedules then in force and the time when the change or changes will go into effect.
Page 177 - ... after full hearing, whether completed before or after the rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice goes into effect, the Commission may make such order with reference thereto as would be proper in a proceeding initiated after it had become effective.
Page 177 - ... such portion of such increased rates or charges as by its decision shall be found not justified.
Page 177 - Commission shall have, and it is hereby given, authority, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, and if it so orders without answer or other formal pleading by the interested carrier or carriers, but upon reasonable notice, to enter upon a hearing concerning the lawfulness of such rate...
Page 177 - ... reasonable notice, to enter upon a hearing concerning the lawfulness of such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice; and pending such hearing and the decision thereon the Commission, upon filing with such schedule and delivering...
Page 165 - Act is amended by adding the following new subsection at the end thereof: "(g...
Page 26 - ... 1 ) such holding company, and every subsidiary company thereof which is a public-utility company from which such holding company derives, directly or indirectly, any material part of its income, are predominantly intrastate in character and carry on their § business substantially in a single State...
Page 177 - Under such rules and regulations as the commission may prescribe, every public utility other than a common carrier shall file with the...