Power Marketing Administrations: Their Ratesetting Practices Compared With Those of Nonfederal Utilities
AIMD-00-114
Published: Mar 30, 2000. Publicly Released: May 02, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Energy's (DOE) power marketing administrations (PMA), focusing on: (1) how the PMAs set their rates to recover costs; (2) how the PMAs' ratesetting practices compare to those of investor-owned and publicly owned utilities; and (3) the impact of the PMAs' ability to defer repayment of portions of their debt on their future competitiveness.
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