High Gas Prices: The Edge Comes Off
High Gas Prices:
High Gas Prices:
Conservation programs, plus an erosion in domestic manufacturing, will lead to a falloff in gas demand.
Fortnightly Magazine - November 2004
Transmission Upgrades: Who Pays?
Transmission Upgrades:
Transmission Upgrades:
How to allocate the costs.
Efforts to establish and quantify congestion-reduction and loss-reduction projects are progressing in electric markets with locational marginal price (LMP) regimes. The Path 15 upgrade approval by the California ISO two years ago was largely based upon its economic benefits. A draft report from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), , states that ERCOT will consider transmission projects that are "economically justified by the reduction of congestion and losses."1
Byline:
John Seelke
Return on Equity: A Survey of Recent Rate Cases From State PUCs
Ratemaking Special Report
(November 2004) Fixing an appropriate rate of return on equity (ROE) for electric utility investors marks a fundamental component of the typical cost-of-service rate case conducted across the nation by state public utility commissions (PUCs). The following survey demonstrates the results of such cases, as observed over the past year.
Byline:
Phillip S. Cross