{"pk":60858,"title":"An Economic Case Against Uneconomic Coal: Antitrust Concerns in the Deregulated and Competitive Electricity Market","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This Article addresses uneconomic self-commitment in the electric power market with an eye to the antitrust case against the uneconomic operations of coal-fired power plants. Part I describes the history of electricity market regulation, deregulation, and the problem caused by vertically integrated utilities relying on uneconomic coal resources. Part II addresses the interplay of antitrust, anticompetition, and anti-manipulation laws on the energy industry and electricity market. Ultimately, antitrust doctrine's entrenchment in the industry's prior age presents a challenge to what is a billion-dollar problem and this Article attempts to challenge that entrenchment.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6329w684","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Amato","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2025-07-03T18:39:49Z","date_accepted":"2025-07-03T18:39:49Z","date_published":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclalaw_jelp/article/60858/galley/46826/download/"}]}