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• Commissions On A Mission - The Emergent Regulatory Paradigm, by Janice A. Beecher, PhD., Director Institute of Public Utilities, Michigan State University
• Illinois' Long Strange Restructuring Trip, by Martin Cohen, Executive Director, Citizens Utility Board
• If Maine Can Restructure, So Can Others, by Bill Nugent, President, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
• Municipal Aggregation - Making it Work by Mayor Dan DiLiberto, Eastlake, Ohio Chairman, Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council
• Bright Future for Retail Electric Choice in Texas, by Becky Klein, Texas Public Utility Commissioner
• After Enron's Collapse, an Enhanced Role for Market Oversight? by Stephen G. Ward, Maine Public Advocate
• Why Restructuring Is Failing Most Everywhere by Charles Harak, Energy Project Attorney, National Consumer Law Center
• We Need a Manhattan Project for Retail Energy Restructuring! By Ken Malloy
• A First Look at the Impact of Electric Deregulation on Pennsylvania by Scott J. Rubin
• California Got it Wrong - Texas Got it Right by Sam Wyly, Excerpts from Keynote Remarks to the American Solar Energy Society's Solar Forum 2001 in Washington, D.C. on April 23, 2001
• Balancing Regulation and Competition - Some Lessons from the Recent Past by Harry M. Trebing Professor Emeritus of Economics Michigan State University
• 2001 Restructuring: A Critical Decision Point by Nora Mead Brownell, President National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
• Expanding North America's Gas Supply in Newly Competitive Markets as a 21st Century Challenge by Alaska Governor Tony Knowles
• Governor's Natural Gas Summit Shows Need for a National Energy Policy Reflecting Growing Economic and Environmental Needs By Ohio Governor Bob Taft
• Restructuring Fails Summer's Reality Check, by Mike Hatch, Attorney General of Minnesota
• The Importance of Pricing Transmission Properly by Janet Gail Besser, Vice President, Lexecon Inc.
• AGGREGATION AND THE LOW-INCOME CONSUMER by Roger Colton
• DOOR-TO-DOOR SALES OF COMPETITIVE ENERGY SERVICES by Barbara R. Alexander
• "It's The Customers, Stupid!" by Bob Rowe, President, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, November 10, 1999, Presidential Address Excerpts, San Antonio, Texas
• Marching Against the Monopoly - Wichita's Effort for Lower Electric Rates by Mayor Bob Knight
• Renewable Energy Markets in State Electric Industry Restructuring by Ryan Wiser, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Kevin Porter, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Steve Clemmer, Union of Concerned Scientists
• Pennsylvania Consumer Benefits from Electric Industry Restructuring and the Federal Role by Sonny Popowsky, Consumer Advocate of Pennsylvania
• Restructuring Reinforces State Regulation by Jim Sullivan, President, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC)
• Restructuring - Delaying the Inevitable - Or the Inevitability of Delay Matthew H. Brown, Energy Program Director National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
• Eliminating Reliability Erosion Incentives by Raymond W. Lawton, Ph.D.1, Director of the National Regulatory Research Institute (NRRI)
• Electric Competition in Pennsylvania: Progress & Problems, by John Hanger
• California Ballot Issue
  Pro: Prop 9 Promises Lower Rates and Benefits the Economiy with Real Competition by Nettie Hoge, TURN Executive Director
  Con: Proposition 9 Promises Higher Rates and Higher Taxes by Allan Zaremberg, Chairman, No on 9 Coalition
  
• Community Choice and Consumerco Models: Best Hope to Emancipate the Captive Customer by Kay Guinane, National Consumer Law Center (NCLC)
• Statewide Administration of Public Purpose Programs under Restructuring by Nancy Brockway, National Consumer Law Center (NCLC)
• Choosing an Electricity Supplier - Eeny Meeny, Miney, Mo What to Do When Most Say "No" by Kathleen F. O' Reilly
• Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming - Significant Implications for State Government, by Jolynn Barry Butler, President of NARUC
• California Enacts New Law to Promote "Truth in Green Energy Marketing" by California Senator Byron Sher
• An Interview with James Hoecker, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• Beyond Indpendence - Making the ISO Work by Robert E. Burns, Esq., Senior Research Specialist, National Regulatory Research Institute (NRRI)
• Stranded Cost Overview, by William B. Marcus, Principal Economist, JBS Energy, Inc.
• The Power to Choose, by Congressman Dan Schaefer
• California Restructuring Bill Partially Corrects Bad CPUC Decision for Small Consumers, by Lenny Goldberg
• New York Charges Ahead with System Benefits, by David R. Wooley, Pace Energy Project
• Let's Make Sure That Competition Will Reduce Costs in the Electric Industry, by Steve Corneli
• Comparing State Energy Expenditures with State Government Tax Collections by Skip Laitner, Economic Research Associates