Lynne Kiesling Yesterday David Zetland had a post on how bad a job his water utility does of pricing water to optimize use in the face of drought. I recommend it to you, because water is even more abominably, inefficiently priced than electricity … and that’s saying something! … I don’t care about $5/month surcharges. …
Michael Giberson Power to The Woodlands, Texas, a little north of Houston, is delivered by two different companies. Depending on which neighborhood you live in, either your power comes via CenterPoint Energy or it comes via Entergy Texas. After power outages caused by Hurricane Ike, it took up to a week longer for power to …
Lynne Kiesling On Thursday President-elect Obama named law professor Cass Sunstein to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, an executive-branch office with the mission of analyzing and coordinating federal regulation. Most recently, Sunstein is known for his work with Richard Thaler on “choice architecture” and behavioral public policy, including their book Nudge. Others …
Markets have rules, and some rules work better than others.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has revised reporting requirements in order to reduce the effects of price volatility on reserves reported.
Geoff Styles offers a timely discussion of how SEC requirements for reporting oil and gas reserves and current low prices will combine to force a drop in reported oil and gas reserves.
Reason Public Policy Institute has published an article by Pierre Desrochers, of the Montreal Economic Institute, examining how creating institutions, rather than mandates, will increase sustainable reuse of industrial by-products.
Brian Mannix of the Mercatus Center and I have written a comment on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Standard Market Design proposal. The press release and the Reason policy study are available on the Reason Public Policy Institute website. From the press release: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Standard Market Design proposal is a bold …
This article does a decent job of laying out the issues in something that most people find pretty arcane, but is a crucial debate in electricity deregulation — repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA). Actually, that article does a much better job of articulating the arguments against repeal of PUHCA, …
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