Study for National Regulatory Research Institute, Advanced Metering Infrastructure: What Regulators Need to Know About Its Value to Residential Customers, NRRI Report 08-03. Describes AMI, provides an overview of a cost-benefit analysis for approval of AMI cost recovery, describes operational benefits of AMI (such as remote meter-reading), and describes and evaluates the results of three major pilots of dynamic pricing for residential customers, with particular attention to whether low-use and low-income customers can avoid high-cost peak pricing and take advantage of lower-cost off-peak pricing. Available at http://nrri.org/pubs/multiutility/advanced_metering_08-03.pdf.

Study for the State of Delaware recommending a portfolio approach to future electricity resources, with a public process to determine risk preferences, and the establishment of a Delaware Energy Authority to keep the wholesale power marketers honest. It has two appendices, one showing initiatives states had taken to re-regulate their power markets and the other showing proposals not enacted as of the date of the study (May 22, 2007). Download study (420K pdf); Appendix A (154K pdf) and Appendix B (103K pdf)

Nancy Brockway, Electricity Competition: What Lies Ahead, a presentation to the Harvard Electricity Policy Group, January 2003.
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hepg/Papers/Brockway_HEPGFuture_of%20_Electricity_Competition_1-30-03.pdf

Nancy Brockway and Michael Sherman, Stranded Benefits in Electric Utilities Restructuring, The National Council on Competition and the Electric Industry: The Electric Industry Restructuring Series, October 1996.
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/energy/stranded.htm

Nancy Brockway, Statewide Administration of Low-Income Programs Under Energy Utility Restructuring: Opportunities and Pitfalls, National Consumer Law Center, February 1998. Describes the opportunities and pitfalls of statewide administration versus utility-by-utility administration of low-income programs under energy utility restructuring. Summarizes status of this issue to date in states with restructuring legislation or regulatory authorization, noting that five states, (CA, IL, NH, NY and WI, the latter through PSC recommendation,) have moved strongly in the direction of statewide administration and two (ME and MA) have recognized the value of statewide programs.
http://www.liheap.ncat.org/pubs/brock.htm

Nancy Brockway, A Low-Income Advocate's Introduction to Electric Industry Restructuring and Retail Wheeling," National Consumer Law Center, June 1994, 32 pages. Summarizes different positions within the restructuring debate, discusses the impact of proposed retail competition on low-income residential customers, and reviews some options available to low-income customers in response to industry restructuring proposals. Contact: NCLC, 77 Summer Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1006; Phone: 617/542-8010; Fax: 617/542-8028

Nancy Brockway and Blair Hamilton, et al., Approaches to Electric Utility Energy Efficiency for Low-Income Customers in a Changing Regulatory Environment, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 1998, 75 pages. An overview and analyses of the approaches selected states take with restructuring regulatory orders or legislation to funding, administering and implementing low-income energy efficiency. Geared toward Weatherization Assistance Program grantees to help them identify where their state is positioned vis a vis restructuring, to understand issues in their state, and to structure the best possible package of low-income energy efficiency services. Includes an overview of the status of restructuring in all states as of the summer of 1998. Contact: National Technical Information Service www.ntis.gov/ordering.htm or Office of Scientific and Technical Information www.osti.gov/products/sources.html, to order. (Order # ORNL/CON-466)

Nancy Brockway, Low-Income Comments before the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, D.P.U. Docket No. 98-100, May 27, 1996. Identifies low-income issues and possible solutions for a utility regulatory commission considering restructuring.
http://www.consumerlaw.org/initiatives/energy_and_utility/testeirr.shtml

Nancy Brockway, and Margot Saunders, Phyllis Kimmel, and Maggie Spade, Water Affordability Programs [Project #184], American Water Works Association, Summer 1998. The purpose of this study was to identify alternative methods of rate design, billing, and collection in order to address the gap between water prices and low-income households' ability to pay. These affordability models provide viable mechanisms to water utilities for realizing savings for their systems and reducing the political fallout from service terminations. These strategies respond to the problems caused by rising water rates while meeting both the standard principles of rate design and the legal requirements prohibiting unreasonable discrimination in rates. Ordering information at
http://www.awwarf.org/research/TopicsAndProjects/execSum/184.aspx

Nancy Brockway, Electricity Deregulation May Leave Poor in the Dark, The Forum, Vol. 12, No. 3, Fall 1997.