Customer Choice: Purchasing Energy in a Deregulated Market

This text presents detailed guidance on how to effectively purchase deregulated energy, based on first-hand reports from many of America's experts. It is designed to provide the kind of practical advice needed by professionals who are responsible for making energy purchasing decisions. It contains a ten-step programme to guide building owners in purchasing decision making, a state-by-state retail competition update and guidelines for buying electricity and natural gas over the worldwide web. Other topics include contract renegotiation strategies, an assessment of power pools, the role of aggregators in the energy market, real time pricing issues, where cogeneration fits within the marketplace and lessons learned from deregulation experiences in Scandinavia and England.