The Electric Deregulation Fiasco: Looking to Regulatory Federalism to Promote a Balance Between Markets and the Provision of Public Goods

Authors

Jim Rossi, Vanderbilt University Law School

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Michigan Law Review

Publication Date

2002

ISSN

0026-2234

Page Number

1768

Keywords

deregulation, electric utilities, jurisdictional boundaries

Disciplines

Energy and Utilities Law | Law

Abstract

The Essay uses three recent books - two by a historians and one by an economist - to address the electric power deregulation fiasco in the U.S. It argues that public law has an important role to play in deregulated markets. At least in part, the essay argues, public law is to blame for the failure of deregulation in California. At the same time, the Essay suggests, without clarification of jurisdictional responsibility and incentives in public law, adoption of effective competitive market reforms to the electric power industries will not succeed in the future.

Recommended Citation

Jim Rossi, The Electric Deregulation Fiasco: Looking to Regulatory Federalism to Promote a Balance Between Markets and the Provision of Public Goods, 100 Michigan Law Review. 1768 (2002)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty-publications/566