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Evaluating Time-of-Day Electricity Rates for Residential Customers
If it cost nothing to meter and bill customers for electricity use during peak and off-peak hours, time-of-day (TOD) pricing would improve the efficient use of resources and result in more equitable billing.
Nov 1, 1979
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New technologies, competition and the postal service
The Postal Service confronts market structure issues faced by regulated monopolies in other industries, but changing technology raises other problems: nearly all the new technology is developing outside the Postal Service's monopoly market. A key q...
Jan 1, 1978
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The Impact of Energy Price Increases on Households: An Illustration
Effects of energy price increases on households at different income levels are estimated.
Jan 30, 1976
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Selected Econometric Studies of the Demand for Electricity: Review and Discussion.
The California Public Utilities Commission, in case number 9804, instituted a generic investigation into the structure of electric utility rates in California, and invited testimony from interested parties and expert witnesses. At the invitation of a...
Jan 1, 1975
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The Coming Computer Utility -- Laissez-Faire, Licensing, or Regulation?
The growth of the computer industry, which presses upon existing regulatory processes, makes necessary a re-examination of the entire regulatory structure for data transmission.
Apr 1, 1967

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