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5th Annual Managing Regulatory Compliance for Electric Utilities
May 21, 2013 to May 23, 2013 | Atlanta, GA
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May 29, 2013 to May 30, 2013 | Chicago, IL
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Jun 09, 2013 to Jun 12, 2013 | San Francisco, CA
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PUR Guide 2012 Fully Updated Version

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Pricing the Public Good

Weighing green energy’s costs and benefits.

Michael T. Burr, Editor-in-Chief

Policies aimed at promoting one good thing can diminish a better thing, for a net loss to the overall public welfare. Raising prices to promote renewables, for example, makes electricity less affordable and hurts the economy. But artificially low prices can themselves create social ills — by preserving an unsustainable status quo.

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