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The marginal cost pricing doctrine; 1.2. A brief overview of the u.s. electric market; 1.3. Reducing carbon emissions; 1.4. Internalizing the cost of reducing carbon emissions; 1.5. Optimal rate or tariff design and tax credits to promote efficient use of energy and a reduction in carbon emissions; 1.6. Conclusion; Chapter 2: The Theory of Natural Monopoly; 2.1. The natural monopoly conundrum 327 $a2.2. For a single-output market2.3. Literature review-economies of scale in generation: single-output models; 2.4. For a multiple-output natural monopoly; 2.5. Electricity as a multiple-output industry and economies of scope and subadditivity; 2.6. Economies of vertical integration and separability; 2.7. Relevant literature review-vertical integration and separability; 2.8. Conclusion; Chapter 3: The U.S. Electric Markets, Structure, and Regulations; 3.1. The U.S. electric industry structure; 3.2. Regulation of the electric utility industry; 3.3. State regulations 327 $a3.4. The future of the electric industryChapter 4: The Economics (and Econometrics) of Cost Modeling; 4.1. The general cost model; 4.2. The econometrics of cost modeling: an overview; 4.3. A brief history of cost models and applications to the electric industry; 4.4. Appendix; 4.5. Exercises; Chapter 5: Case Study: Breaking up Bells; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. The natural monopoly conundrum; 5.3. Breaking up bell: the case of AT&T; 5.4. Economies of vertical integration: an argument for natural monopoly?; 5.5. Parallels between telephony and electricity; 5.6. Lessons to be learned 327 $a5.7. ConclusionChapter 6: Cost Models; 6.1. The determination of an appropriate objective function: a brief overview of the literature; 6.2. Flexible functional forms; 6.3. Multiproduct cost functions; 6.4. Measures of efficiency for multiple-output models; 6.5. Chapter conclusion; 6.6. End of chapter exercises: multiple-output cost models; 6.7. Appendix: proofs; Chapter 7: Case Study: Can Rural ElectricCooperatives Survive in aRestructured U.S. Electric Market?An Empirical Analysis; 7.1. Abstract; 7.2. Introduction; 7.3. Literature Review; 7.4. Cost Models 327 $a7.5. Implications for Public Policy7.6. Conclusion; Chapter 8: A Test of Vertical Economies for Non-Vertically Integrated Firms: The Case of Rural Electric Cooperatives; 8.1. Abstract; 8.2. Introduction; 8.3. Background: rural electric cooperatives; 8.4. Reasons that cooperatively owned utilities are different; 8.5. Literature review; 8.6. Data; 8.7. Methodology; 8.8. Preliminary results-all coops; 8.9. Economies of vertical integration; 8.10. Estimation results; 8.11. Tests for vertical integration; 8.12. Conclusion; Chapter 9: Load Forecasting-The ""Demand"" for Electricity 327 $a9.1. What is forecasting? 330 $a A ""quick look up guide,"" Electricity Cost Modeling Calculations places the relevant formulae and calculations at the reader's finger tips. In this book, theories are explained in a nutshell and then the calculation is presented and solved in an illustrated, step-by-step fashion. 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