Finally, we thank staff from the state energy offices, public utilities commissions, and electric utilities who provided information for this report. Of course, any remaining errors or omissions are our own.

abstract quality of life is a many-sided and complex concept and includes not only physical aspects of life. measuring and discovering this concept depends on many factors such as cultural, social, economical and even environmental. in this research, the connection between women’s quality of life and their access to public utilities and municipal services, health level and safety level of neigh...

Since the past decades, public utilities are undergoing profound reform (liberalization). The major motivation for such reform processes was and still is the belief that liberalization and deregulation stimulates, among others, product and process innovations, both of which are important vehicles for productivity and economic growth. The ability of any public utility to create and sustain compe...

This section describes existing public services and utilities, presents analysis of potential impacts resulting from Regional Plan Update alternatives, and identifies any mitigation measures for those impacts determined to be significant. In particular, it addresses impacts on water supply, wastewater treatment and disposal, electricity, natural gas, solid waste, schools, fire protection, and l...

BACKGROUND In cost-utility analyses gain in health can be measured using health state utilities. Health state utilities can be elicited from members of the public or from patients. Utilities given by patients tend to be higher than utilities given by members of the public. This difference is often suggested to be explained by adaptation, but this has not yet been investigated in patients. Here,...

We examine the key features of utility regulation, with an eye towards what should be kept and what can be discarded in electricity market reforms. Enterprises are considered public utilities if they are monopolistic and perform an essential public function. Governments create independent regulatory agencies to address two fundamental problems in the control of public utilities, namely the damp...

In regional and rural areas of NSW, drinking water is provided by 107 local water utilities serving a total population of some 1.7 million and operating 323 water supply systems. NSW Health exercises public health oversight of these regional water utilities through the NSW Health Drinking Water Monitoring Program, which provides guidance to water utilities on implementing elements of the Austra...