With help from the Oregon Public Utility Commission Moss got her phone service within a month.
Nievert's image as a grandmotherly caretaker of a public utility belies her real talent.
Sempra Energy (NYSE:SRE) is based in San Diego and is the San Diego public utility.
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Watts, a former public utility commissioner and oil and gas commissioner in energy-rich Oklahoma, joins Sen.
And there are other costs to public utility regulation, including long histories of scandal and corruption.
Last year's repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company Act removed restrictions on who could run utilities.
The big opportunity is creating a public utility to do what Pepco has proven unable to do.
Short of the public utility option, Crawford favors hyper-regulation of the existing providers.
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By contrast, a public utility would not be subject to shareholder demands for dividend payouts and imprudent cost cuts.
Until the incentives for utilities change, they will block the door and the public utility commissions will keep the status quo.
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When Mr. Romney took office in 2003, the state was already enforcing public utility-style regulation of insurers for premiums and multiple benefit mandates.
While that might make consumerists wince, there's been no opposition so far from the Texas Public Utility Commission or the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The case against public utility treatment for VoIP is even stronger.
Even before this latest explosion, the Israeli Public Utility Authority warned the unreliable Egyptian supply is one reason Israeli electricity rates could rise 20% next year.
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It wants to become what amounts to a public utility.
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With massive regulation, caps on pay and restrictions on risk and competition, we can turn the entire financial sector into a cross between a public utility and the DMV.
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Which perhaps is all the proof needed of the wisdom of SB 1161, and of keeping Internet services as far from the world of public utility regulators as possible.
Four months after the launch in San Francisco, Uber was served with a "cease and desist" order from the California Public Utility Commission and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
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Something will have to give, which will likely open the door to making health insurance a public utility completely regulated by the government, or the left's real goal: a single-payer system.
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The rule requires public utility transmission providers to participate in a regional transmission planning process and coordinate to determine if there are more efficient or cost-effective solutions to their mutual transmission needs.
But its most fascinating character is Samuel Insull, the British-born, longtime assistant to Edison, who went on to found what was once the nation's largest investor-owned public utility, Commonwealth Edison, and became immensely wealthy.
Being an on-site power system allows users to run independently of the public utility grid, ensuring that, no matter what happens to the grid, a company will not lose power and will continue to operate.
One of the most important inputs to the production of broadband networks is rights of way permission to dig up public streets and attach cables to public utility poles which in most cases are under the control of local governments.
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In addition, the electric utility lobby in Washington is extraordinarily powerful, and the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), which represents public utility heavyweights like Edison International, Exelon and Constellation Energy Group, is fully behind the department's announcement of "national interest" zones.
But as technology counter-measures become increasingly expensive and ineffective, governments from the UN down to local public utility regulators have been forced to show their true hand in bolder efforts to wrest control and revenue from within the Internet ecosystem.
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Today everyone in the city, including in the slums, has access to potable water, only 7% of the water is "lost" (comparatively, in London 28% of the water is not metered or billed for) and the public utility is making money.
Lytle, who grew up near and still lives in Hamburg, Pa. (pop. 4, 112), knew he didn't want a career where he would end up like his dad--laid off at age 50 after spending 27 years as a depreciation accountant at a public utility.
Congress passed historic banking regulations during the New Deal, including the Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933, the Securities Act of 1933, and the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, all of which vastly expanded the role of the federal government in overseeing and regulating Wall Street.
Over 17 years it has built seven plants (five others are in construction) nationwide and has become quite nimble at navigating the permit process. (It's easier to get approvals if you're a private company than if you're a public utility.) In 2004 LS filed a proposal to build a 1, 600-megawatt, supercritical pulverized-coal plant in White Pine.
Notwithstanding ss. 196.49 and 196.80, no approval or certification of the public service commission is necessary for a public utility to purchase, or contract for the operation of, such a plant, and any such purchase is considered to be in the public interest and to comply with the criteria for certification of a project under s. 196.49 (3) (b).
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