Must Read Items
(dates in red are when the item was posted to the website) ...

California Shorts a Circuit -- Should Canadians Trust the Wiring Diagram? - by Mark Jaccard, CD Howe Institute (February, 2002) (February 14, 2002)

How to Make Deregulation Work -- Alfred E. Kahn, the father of airline deregulation, firmly defends it in an interview with IEEE Spectrum - but is less sanguine about the effect on electricity and communications - IEEE Spectrum (January, 2002) (February 5, 2002)

Electricity Deregulation and Consumers: Lessons from a Hot Spring and a Cool Summer - Dr. Mark N. Cooper, Director of Research, Consumer Federation of America (August 30, 2001) (December 19, 2001)

Behind the Headlines of Electricity Restructuring: A Story of Greed, Irresponsibility and Mismanagement of a Vital Service in a Vulnerable Market - Consumer Federation of America (March 20, 2001) (March 24, 2001)

How State's Consumers Lost With Electricity Deregulation - Los Angeles Times December 9th (March 13, 2001)

It's Greed Stupid! Debunking the Ten Myths of Utility Deregulation - an Adobe Acrobat PDF format copy of a publication by the Public Citizen organization in the United States (February 26, 2001)

The California Mess - HOW CALIFORNIA GOT INTO ITS ENERGY MESS AND HOW IT CAN GET OUT OF IT is a publication by The Utility Consumers' Action Network about the California problem (January 9, 2001)