Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story

by Lynne Kiesling

Book Overview

In the early 1990s, the U.S. electricity industry was plagued by cost overruns and stagnant productivity. Many states turned to deregulation to promote innovation and cut costs, a strategy that had worked for the telecommunications, trucking, natural gas, and airline industries. Yet, after the California energy market's infamous meltdown in 2000-2001 triggered the recall election of Governor Gray Davis, deregulation lost popular and political support...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844742821
• ISBN13: 9780844742823
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"