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Fortnightly Magazine - July 15 1997

California Electric Restructuring Update

California regulators have issued a series of important rulings this spring as they continue to move forward with restructuring the state's electric utility industry.

On May 6, the California Public Utilities Commission accelerated the pace of its industry reform by ordering all electric utilities in the state to allow direct access to alternate electricity suppliers for all customers on Jan. 1, 1998.

Byline: 
Phillip S. Cross
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Whither FERC?

With electric bills in Congress, and Moler bound for DOE, the Commission needs new vision.

Speaking in May at an informal press luncheon at the Washington International Energy Group in Washington, D.C., FERC Commissioner William L. Massey described the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's role in an open-access electric industry as "nourishing" competition.

Byline: 
Bruce W. Radford, and Lori A. Burkhart
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South Dakota Court Settles Boundary Dispute

South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that state regulators erred in authorizing an electric utility to serve an established industrial customer of an electric cooperative.

The commission had found that the Northwestern Public Service Co. could replace Northern Electric Cooperative as the electric supplier for Hub City Inc. Hub had purchased an industrial property containing manufacturing facilities served by the utility and a plant addition served by the co-op.

Byline: 
Phillip S. Cross
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