MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aHD9502.U52$bC55 2009
082 00 $a333.790973$222
100 1 $aCicchetti, Charles J.
245 10 $aGoing green and getting regulation right :$ba primer for energy efficiency /$cCharles J. Cicchetti.
260 $aVienna, Va. :$bPublic Utilies Reports,$cc2009.
300 $aviii, 310 p. :$bill. ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 297-303) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : why this primer -- Utility-sponsored conservation and other social mandates in the United States -- The role of utilities in conservation : regulatory details that matter -- Regulating the path to achieve successful utility-sponsored energy efficiency -- A review of utility-sponsored energy efficiency and load management activities -- Relative state-by-state comparisons over time -- Benchmarking effort and performance -- An overview of energy efficiency regulations -- The economics of utility-sponsored energy efficiency when there are externalities -- External benefits and energy efficiency -- Some quantitative evidence to analyze external benefits -- Combining data and theory -- The cost of energy efficiency and load management -- The per unit costs of energy efficiency and load management -- The per unit cost of load management -- How regulation affects the costs that customers pay for demand-side programs -- Cost-of-service regulation and demand-side management -- Why cost-of-service regulation may be given too much current weight -- California shows mandates and rate riders work : a brief history of California's energy efficiency efforts -- Mixing mandates and incentives -- How states are decoupling -- Direct financial incentives for demand response programs -- Testing the statistical significance of regulatory incentives for energy efficiency -- The statistical significance of incentives for regulatory policy targets -- Save-a-watt : a new paradigm -- Renewables and energy efficiency -- Conclusions.
650 0 $aEnergy policy$zUnited States.
650 0 $aEnergy conservation$zUnited States.