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.
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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.