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* * AWARD & REVIEWS
ACLU Upton Sinclair Award for and other reviews of DEMOCRACY AND REGULATION.
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* * UPCOMING AND RECENT EVENTS
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Advocacy
Strategies and tactics for effective utility consumer advocacy.
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Arrearage management
Please see Low-Income
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Assistance
Please see Low-Income
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Benefits
Economic benefits (including non-energy) of low-income energy efficiency. Please see Cost-effectiveness
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Biographical
Further information about Jerrold Oppenheim and Theo MacGregor. Also see "Who We Are" tab.
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Carbon and Climate
Carbon, Greenhouse Gases, and Climate Change: Responding to climate change while protecting low-income consumers.
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Code of Conduct
What should be included in rules and regulations governing the relationship between regulated and unregulated affiliates?
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Consumer protection
Principles and strategies to provide consumers protection from price volatility and increases due to restructuring, plus general price and other protections assured through democratic regulation of essential services.
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Cost-effectiveness
Cost-effectiveness of low-income energy efficiency and assistance programs
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Default service
Please see POLR
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Democratic Process
The process of democratic regulation is based on principles that include transparency, participation, and standards for rate-setting.
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Deregulation - US
Please see Restructuring
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Efficiency
Energy efficiency programs targeting low-income and other customers: includes program designs, strategies, economics and benefits.
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Globalization
See Privatization
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Hedging
Please see Portfolio Management and Provider of Last Resort (POLR).
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LEAN
Low-Income Energy Affordability Network
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Low-Income
Low-income issues in both regulation and restructuring (Please see Efficiency for low-income efficiency and weatherization)
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Non-energy benefits
Non-energy benefits (NEBs) of low-income energy efficiency. Please see Cost-effectiveness.
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Portfolio Management
How should resources be acquired?
Please also see Provider of Last Resort (POLR).
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Price Volatility
Please see Portfolio Management.
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Privatization
Privatization of formerly national utilities outside of the US
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Provider of Last Resort (POLR)
How should electricity be provided to the vast majority of consumers who do not or cannot choose? Who should be the Provider of Last Resort? How should resources be acquired?
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Renewables
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Restructuring - US
Utility deregulation in the US has, by many measures, failed to meet the public interest. Some of the failures have been catastrophic.
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Service Quality
Methods to measure service quality and to achieve universal service
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Smart Grid
Costs and benefits of Smart Grid proposals, including "Smart Meters" and Pre-Payment Meters
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Take Back -Resources
Take Back the Power - Resources for legislative and regulatory initiatives.
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Take Back the Power
Materials related to Take Back the Power conference on February 26, 2007
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Weatherization
Please see Efficiency
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