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Competition in the Electric Industry: Emerging Issues, Opportunities, and Risks for Facility Operators

Conference Summary

Federal Facilities Council Standing Committee on Operations and Maintenance

Report Number 132

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1996

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1996. Competition in the Electric Industry: Emerging Issues, Opportunities, and Risks for Facility Operators. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5482.
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NOTICE

The Federal Facilities Council (FFC) (formerly the Federal Construction Council) is a continuing activity of the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) of the National Research Council (NRC). The purpose of the FFC is to promote continuing cooperation among the sponsoring federal agencies and between the agencies and other elements of the building community in order to advance building science and technology–particularly with regard to the design, construction, and operation of federal facilities. Currently, the following agencies sponsor the FFC:

Department of the Air Force, Office of the Civil Engineer

Department of the Air Force, Air National Guard

Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers

Department of Energy, Office of Associate Deputy Secretary of Field Management

Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command

Department of State, Office of Foreign Buildings Operations

Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Facilities Management Food and Drug Administration

General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service Indian Health Service

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Facilities Engineering Division

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building and Fire Research Laboratory

National Endowment for the Arts, Design Arts Program

National Science Foundation

Smithsonian Institution, Office of Facilities Services

U.S. Information Agency, International Broadcasting Bureau

U.S. Public Health Service, Office of Management

U.S. Postal Service, Facilities Department

As part of its activities, the FFC periodically publishes reports like this one that have been prepared by committees of government employees. Since these committees are not appointed by the NRC, they do not make recommendations, and their reports are considered FFC publications rather than NRC publications. For further information on the FFC program or FFC reports, please write to: Director, Federal Facilities Council, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20418.

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1996. Competition in the Electric Industry: Emerging Issues, Opportunities, and Risks for Facility Operators. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5482.
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FEDERAL FACILITIES COUNCIL STANDING COMMITTEE ON OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

Chairman

James Walton,

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army

Vice Chairman

Richard McCrone,

Operations and Energy Management Division, Department of Veterans Affairs

Members

Subrata Banerjee,

Bureau of Health Resources Development, U.S. Public Health Service

Walter Borys,

Network Engineering, International Broadcasting Bureau

Hao Bui,

Facilities Engineering Branch, International Broadcasting Bureau

Jodi Ernst,

Office of Facilities Services, Smithsonian Institution

Paul Fardig,

Engineering Support Services Branch, U.S. Public Health Service

Gary Fennell,

Facilities Division, Air National Guard

Paul Fennewald,

Maintenance Branch, U.S. Postal Service

Geoffrey Frohnsdorff,

Building Materials Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology

William Graham,

Engineering Management and Field Support Office, Department of Veterans Affairs

Benjamin Herrick,

Network Support Division, International Broadcasting Bureau

John Iaconis,

Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1996. Competition in the Electric Industry: Emerging Issues, Opportunities, and Risks for Facility Operators. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5482.
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William Johnson,

Facilities Engineering Branch, Indian Health Service

Gregory Krisanda,

Office of Foreign Buildings Operations, U.S. Department of State

Peter Lastik,

Facilities Division, Air National Guard

Patrick Miller,

Office of Plant Services, Smithsonian Institution

William Morrison,

Facilities Division, Air National Guard

Charles Pittinger, Jr.,

Facilities Engineering Division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Douglas Rowand,

Facilities Division, Air National Guard

Steve Salter,

Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Department of the Navy

John Scalzi,

Structures and Building Systems, National Science Foundation

J. Ronald Smith,

Division of Facilities Management, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Public Health Service

Gregory Tsukalas,

Facilities Branch, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Nongovernment Liaison Members

Dianne Davis,

American Public Works Association

Robert Hummer,

Association for Facilities Engineering

Staff

Lynda Stanley, Director,

Federal Facilities Council

Lena Grayson,

Project Assistant

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1996. Competition in the Electric Industry: Emerging Issues, Opportunities, and Risks for Facility Operators. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5482.
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PREFACE
COMPETITION IN THE ELECTRIC INDUSTRY: EMERGING ISSUES, OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS FOR FACILIITY OPERATORS

Significant and rapid changes are taking place in the electric industry as a result of efforts to introduce competition. The industry is in a period of transition as it moves toward open access transmission and as services such as power generation, transmission, and distribution are "unbundled" and opened to competition. These changes will ultimately effect those who generate, market, and purchase electricity.

Reductions in electric power costs is one potential outcome of the effort to introduce competition in the industry. Such reductions would be supportive of the National Construction Goals of the National Science and Technology Council which seek to achieve a 50% reduction in operation, maintenance, and energy costs of facilities by 2003. However, competition for electricity raises a number of significant issues. These include how to establish a clear line of jurisdiction on electric power issues between the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the 50 states and the District of Columbia; how to retain the reliability of the system; how utility companies will be reimbursed for past investments in generating facilities, made in good faith, that will become uneconomic in a competitive market (so-called stranded costs or stranded investments); impacts on special purpose programs, such as research and development, demand-side management, energy efficiency programs, and rate assistance to low income households; and potential impacts on consumers.

To address these and other issues the Federal Facilities Council convened a conference on "Competition in the Electric Industry: Emerging Issues, Opportunities, and Risks for Federal Facility Operators" in May

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1996. Competition in the Electric Industry: Emerging Issues, Opportunities, and Risks for Facility Operators. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5482.
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1996. The conference brought together experts in regulatory policy, energy markets, utility operations, and government procurement, from industry, government, nonprofit research organizations, and academic institutions. The objective was to provide a nontechnical overview of the significant issues and potential impacts of competition in the electric industry on consumers in general and federal facility operators in particular. Speakers focused on:

  • The background, current status, and future prospects for competition in the electric industry

  • Jurisdictional issues and relationships between federal and state regulators

  • Issues of electric power ownership, distribution, services, and pricing

  • Restructuring of the electric industry and the emergence of new entities in that industry

  • Federal agencies' perspectives on potential opportunities, risks, procurement, and management considerations for federal facility operators.

This report includes papers based on many of the presentations made at the conference. In a few instances, the papers refer to actions taken between the time of the conference (May 1, 1996) and the printing of this report (November 1996), to provide up-to-date information for the reader.

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