Annual Report Of Municipal Statistics For The Year 1980

Author : Leon R. Hood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Statistics of Publicly Owned Electric Utilities in the United States written by Leon R. Hood and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication, issued annually since 1946, presents financial and operating information about publicly owned electric utilities in the United States. The statistics presented in this publication are compiled from data taken from the annual reports filed by the utilities with the Energy Information Administration on Form ERA -412, Annual Report of Municipal Electric Utilities with Annual Revenues of $250,000 or more. Publicly owned' refers to electric utilities operated by municipalities. The Department of Energy Organization Act defines the term municipality as 'a city, county, irrigation district, drainage district, or other political subdivision or agency of a State competent under the laws thereof to carry on the business of developing, transmitting, or distributing power. Part 141.7 of the regulation under The Federal Power Act, CFR 18, p. 550, incorporated into the Department of Energy Organization Act, stales that the form of annual report for municipal electric utilities having electric operating revenues of $250,000 or more shall be ERA Form No.412. It should be noted that the Act does not require the municipal electric utilities to use the Uniform System of Accounts prescribed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission(FERC).Beginning with 1961, publicly owned utilities filed a simplified version of the previously filed annual report form. This change led to a large increase in the number of municipal utilities filing reports with the FERC. The substantial increase in coverage, from 272 utilities in 1960 to 511utilities in 1975, disrupted the year-to-year comparability of summary data. The lack of consistency and completeness in reporting by some of the municipals, as well as the nonuse of the Uniform System of Accounts, as prescribed by FERC for privately owned electric utilities, necessitated functional adjustments to reported data. Throughout this report references made to municipal electric utilities mean the 161 utilities that are included in this publication. Aggregate data are for utilities covered in this publication and have not been expanded to include the total universe.