Implementing Electricity Restructuring: Polices, Potholes and Prospects

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Date

June 1, 2002

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Karen Palmer and Tim Brennan

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Karen Palmer

Senior Fellow; Director, Electric Power Program

Karen Palmer is a senior fellow at Resources for the Future and an expert on the economics of environmental, climate and public utility regulation of the electric power sector.

Tim Brennan

Senior Fellow

Tim Brennan is a senior fellow at RFF. His primary research interests are regulatory economics and competition policy, with applications to the electricity, telecommunications, and postal sectors.

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