This is FindLaw's collection of Energy and Public Utilities Law articles, part of the Corporate Counsel Center Law Library. A public utility is a business or service, which may be publicly or privately owned, engaged in supplying the public generally with some commodity or service, such as electricity, gas, water, transportation, or telephone or telegraph service. The individual states' various public utilities commissions oversee electric companies, while electric utility boards are delegated power by the state legislature. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.
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Resolving Measurement Disputes
Over the last several years, legal disputes involving energy companies have been on the rise, increasingly resulting in litigation before courts or arbitration panels. Both upstream and downstream businesses have experienced significant legal attack ...
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Restructuring Canadian Electricity Markets
The approach toward restructuring electricity markets has differed across Canada as a result of the unique industry and regulatory structures, regional circumstances and issues that face each of the provinces. For example, factors such as ...
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Clinton Administration Releases Semi-Annual Report on the U.s.-Japan Auto Agreement
Yesterday the Clinton Administration released its fifth semi-annual report on the U.S.-Japan Automotive Agreement which calls on Japan to "take concrete steps to further open and deregulate its automotive sector." The report, which was drafted ...
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The Electric Power Industry and the Year 2000 Challenge: A Legal Perspective
Those few utility executives who were still unaware of the so-called Year 2000 problem got a wake-up call on December 8, 1997 when SEC Chairman, Arthur Levitt, warned the nation's utilities to prepare their computer systems to handle the Year 2000 ...
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WTO Talks To Continue in Geneva after Seattle Failure
The failure this month of the Seattle Ministerial this month effectively ends the prospects for a comprehensive round of trade negotiations in the foreseeable future. Although negotiations on services and agriculture technically are required to ...
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Electronic Waste Responsibilities Loom on the Horizon
In 2003, consistent with its forward looking policies regarding managing waste, the European Union (EU) issued Directive 2002/96/EC regarding Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). The Directive contained a number of far-reaching ...
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Department Approves Divestiture of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station
On March 22, 1999, the Department of Telecommunications and Energy (the "Department") issued an order approving Boston Edison Company's ("Boston Edison") divestiture of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station and related assets ("Pilgrim"). The Order ...
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Recent Oil and Gas Regulatory Developments in Alberta
What follows is a brief overview of significant oil and gas regulatory developments occurring between April and November, 2005. The scope is limited to consideration of Alberta Energy and Utilities Board ("EUB") decisions and policy changes, and ...
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What's In a Domain Name?
republished with permission of BlumbergExcelsior, Inc., Marketing Tools for Lawyers, 800 Law Mart - For lawyers, product is the service offered to clients (e.g. estate planning, collecting past due accounts, pursuing personal injury claims, etc. ...
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Global Trends Favor Increased Use of Leasing Structures in Project Finance Transactions
A number of trends are occurring domestically and internationally in the broad area of project and infrastructure finance which indicate leasing structures will be used more frequently as a vehicle for financing infrastructure projects and ...