Public Utility Regulatory Act

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• Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act — The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (or PURPA) was a law passed in 1978 by the United States Congress as part of the National Energy Act. It was meant to promote greater use of renewable energy. This law created a market for non utility… …   Wikipedia

• Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 — (PURPA)   PURPA promotes energy efficiency and increased use of alternative energy sources by encouraging companies to build cogeneration facilities and renewable energy projects using wind power, solar energy, geothermal energy, hydropower,… …   Energy terms

• Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 — The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA) was a law that was passed by the United States Congress to facilitate regulation of electric utilities, by either limiting their operations to a single state, and thus subjecting them to… …   Wikipedia

• Public service company — A public service company (or public utility company) is a corporation or other non governmental business entity (i.e. limited partnership) which delivers public services certain services considered essential to the public interest. The ranks of… …   Wikipedia

• Regulatory taking — refers to a situation in which a government regulates a property to such a degree that the regulation effectively amounts to an exercise of the government s eminent domain power without actually divesting the property s owner of title to the… …   Wikipedia

• Energy Policy Act of 2005 — Enacted by the 109th United States Congress Citations Public Law …   Wikipedia

• Public choice theory — Public choice in economic theory is the use of modern economic tools to study problems that are traditionally in the province of political science. (A more general term is political economy , an earlier name for economics that evokes its… …   Wikipedia

• Federal Power Act — The Federal Power Act is a law appearing in chapter 12 of Title 16 of the United States Code, Federal regulation and development of power . Enacted as the Federal Water Power Act in 1920, its original purpose was coordinating hydroelectric… …   Wikipedia

• National Energy Act — The National Energy Act of 1978 was a legislative response by the U.S. Congress to the 1973 energy crisis. It includes the following statutes: Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) (Pub.L. 95 617) Energy Tax Act (Pub.L. 95 618) National… …   Wikipedia

• Regulatory capture — In economics, regulatory capture occurs when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead advances the commercial or special interests that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating. Regulatory… …   Wikipedia

• California Public Utilities Commission — The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC; also often commonly referred to as simply the PUC) [http://www.cpuc.ca.gov] is a state Public Utilities Commission which regulates privately owned utilities in the state of California, including… …   Wikipedia