This exciting book discusses how retail electricity and natural gas consumers can learn to negotiate a concessionary rate with their utility service - new, and post-deregulation. This includes survey resources that are available to the retail customer and negotiation processes that one should become familiar with in the electric utility industry.

Contents:

• Electricity - an overview
• Regulation of electricity now
• Basic procedures for reducing electricity costs
• Negotiation of electricity costs
• Negotiation on electricity that is provided by marketers
• The retail wheeling transaction
• The retail wheeling contract process
• Natural gas negotiation strategies
• Regulation of natural gas utilities
• Developing a strategy for reducing natural gas costs
• Process of getting the natural gas to the customer
• How to select an agent
• Negotiating with an agent
• Appendix