ENERGY CONCERNS

摘要

Why is the deregulation of the utility industry so important to the lighting community? Because in the near future, changes in utility rate structures will affect the cost of electricity, and daytime lighting will become a much larger component of electric bills, unless we take corrective action. What is "deregulation"? In his keynote speech at the 1998 IES-NA Annual Technical Conference, William Taber Jr., Chairman of Princeton Development Corp., explained that "deregulation" is a misnomer. He suggested that a better term for this phenomenon would be "unbundling," because deregulation has essentially "unbundled" the way in which utility companies generate, transmit, and distribute power to the public.