This course will introduce students to the legal/regulatory regimes governing the energy industry, and to the important economic and political concerns that underlie the regulation of production and sale of energy. More specifically, the course will explore (i) the regulation of externalities in the production of hydroelectric, nuclear, renewable and fossil-fueled energy, as well as (ii) the regulation of price and competition in the sale of energy.
Textbooks ( * denotes required )
Energy, Economics and the Environment: Cases and Materials
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Spence, David B.