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Public Benefits / Universal Service

Multi-State Studies, Reports

See State-by-State Overviews for state specific studies and reports.

Renewable Energy Mandates: An Analysis of Promises Made and Implications for Low Income Customers, Barbara R. Alexander, June 2009

Ratepayer-Funded Low-Income Energy Programs: Performance and Possibilities, APPRISE and Fisher, Sheehan, and Colton, July 2007

Integrating Government-Funded and Ratepayer-Funded Low-Income Fuel Assistance Programs, Roger Colton, May 2002

The Energy Crisis of 2001, testimony of Jerrold Oppenheim for Low-Income Weatherization and Fuel Assistance Program Network, January 2001.

"Managing Default Service To Provide Consumer Benefits In Restructured States:
Avoiding Short-Term Price Volatility," by Barbara R. Alexander, June 2003.

"Default Service for Retail Electric Competition: Can Residential and Low Income Customers Be Protected When the Experiment Goes Awry?", by Barbara R. Alexander, April 2002.

"Default Service: Can Residential and Low Income Customers Be Protected When the Experiment Goes Awry?" by Barbara R. Alexander, April 2001.

"Default Service: Can Residential and Low Income Customers Be Protected When the Experiment Goes Awry?, an Update to the April 2001 Report," by Barbara R. Alexander, October 2001.

"Choice is Never Having to Say you are Sorry: How Deregulation is Working for Low-Income Programs," by H. Gil Peach, Ph.D., July 2003.

State Scorecard on Utility and Public Benefits — Energy Efficiency Programs: An Update, Dan York, Ph.D. and Marty Kushler, Ph.D., ACEEE, December 2002.

Low Income Consumer Utility Issues: A National Perspective, by Jerry Oppenheim and Theo MacGregor, October 2000.

Protecting Low-Income Consumers: Building on Two Decades of Lessons Learned, by Jerry Oppenheim and Theo MacGregor, November 2000.

Integration of LIHEAP with Energy Assistance Programs Created Through Electric and/or Gas Restructuring an article excerpted from the newsletter "Law & Economics Insights,"   published by Fisher, Sheehan & Colton, Public Finance and General Economics, Issue 00-1: January/February 2000.

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