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The $10 billion jolt : California's energy crisis : cowardice, greed, stupidity and the death of deregulation /
California's energy deregulation drama made headlines for most of 2001and 2002. It has proven to be one of the biggest regulatory, political and public policy mistakes in the last hundred years of the American economy. The plan to deregulate California's electricity markets partially worke...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Los Angeles, Calif. :
Silver Lake,
©2004.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; contents; Introduction; The Feds vs. the Californians; The Theories that Shaped the California Plan; Lobbyists Define the Shape of the Plan; Steve Peace-a dedicated worker; Politics and the Plan; Stranded Costs Would Always Be the Problem; The Mechanics Under the CPX and the ISO; The Marketing Blitz That Never Quite Happened; All the Tricky Bonds; The Short Delay That Spoke Volumes; Consumers Didn't Care ... and Activists Didn't Think Clearly; Investors Feel the Effects; The Munis; NIMBY Politics Seal the Plan's Fate; The Flashpoints of Electricity Pricing.
- What the Generators Were Doing ... and HowEnron; The Blackouts; Did Energy Companies Conspire to Scam the People?; Using Bankruptcy as a Bargaining Tool; Gray Davis and the Bail-Out; Cleaning Up the Mess; Conclusion; Index.