Effective Regulation of Public Utilities

The requirement of substantial evidence "prevents us from ‘acquiescing in a charade or a rubber stamping of non-regulation in agency trappings.’"

City of Fulton v. Fed. Power Commn, 512 F.2d 947, 950-51 (D.C. Cir. 1975)

Monthly Essays: 2020

A Regulatory Thanksgiving

Effective Utility Regulation: A Unifying Cause for a Divided America

Can Mergers Distort Competition? Anticompetitive Conduct and Unearned Advantage

Merging parties divert franchise value from the customers who created it

Diversity in Utility Regulation

Promoting Diversity and Prohibiting Discrimination: Is There a Regulatory Obligation to Society?

Suboptimal Couplings Cause Economic Waste

Thirty Years of Electricity Mergers: Concentration and Complication No One Intended

Missing from Utility Merger Markets: Competitive Discipline and Customer Benefits

Diverse Strategies, Common Purpose: Selling Public Franchises for Private Gain

Electric Utility Mergers: Industry Concentration and Corporate Complication

A Wish for the New Year: Agreement on the Principles of Regulation