Both public power systems and rural electric cooperatives are referred to as consumer-owned utilities. A regulatory body reviews the various cost inputs, and sets rates to recover the legitimate costs. D Demand Size Management entails efforts to encourage conservation of electricity usage, including demand and consumption patterns. Distribution Service Electricity service provided over low-voltage lines to retail consumers. Distribution Facilities are facilities that are equipped to deliver electric power at lower voltages from the transmission system to the final user.
Divestiture is the process of selling or spinning off aspects of business lines.
Utilities may divest generation assets voluntarily to refocus their business efforts or in response to regulatory or legislative directives as part of a stranded cost determination or market power mitigation plan. E EPAct is the Energy Policy Act of 1992, which allowed the FERC to introduce greater competition in electric generation by ordering transmission owners to provide access to third parties and encouraged independent power producers. EWGs Exempt Wholesale Generators are generators that were created by the Energy Power Act of 1992. These generators aren't subject to the requirements of the Public Utility Holding Company Act and can compete, based on price, with rate regulated power plants. Cooperative A non-profit corporation, owned and controlled by rural electric cooperatives, that supplies wholesale power and transmission services to its members.