Contents

PURPA 1978

President Carter's Philosophy About Conservation

Encouraging Conservation

Exploiting Other Energy Resources

Managing Supply & Demand

PURPA's Terms

End of Promotional Rate Structures

Cogeneration Incentives

Gas Turbine Technology

Alternative Energy

PURPA'S Effect on Innovation

PURPA's Consequences

Utilities as Vertically Integrated Companies

Challenging the Monopoly in Generation

Questioning the Rationale of Natural Monopoly

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