News Digest
News Digest
Fortnightly Magazine - January 1 2001
A report titled "NY Cash Infusion," appearing in the "News Digest, Transmission & ISOs" pages of the Nov. 1, 2000 edition of , could leave readers with the erroneous impression that the NYISO [New York Independent System Operator] required emergency action to pay its bills. This would be grossly inaccurate.
Byline:
Public Utilities Fortnightly
News Analysis
The lawyers debated over ozone and soot, but the markets saw NO<sub>x</sub> as the "smoking gun."
News Analysis
Byline:
Carl J. Levesque
Price Spike Tsunami: How Market Power Soaked California
Last year saw no shift in fundamentals. Then why was the ISO so willing to be deceived?
Byline:
Robert McCullough
FERC's California Fix: Opportunities Lost and Found
Forget market share. Forget costs. But listen to the data.
Byline:
Robert J. Michaels
FERC's Merger Policy: Still Founded on Market Power
But the fly in the ointment is computer modeling, where no one yet agrees on how to mirror the real world.
But the fly in the ointment is computer modeling, where no one yet agrees on how to mirror the real world.
A promise made is a promise kept, even in the halls of government.
Byline:
Carmen L. Gentile and J. Michel Marcoux
Key to the Citygate
Have gas prices fallen victim to speculation?
On Thursday, Dec. 8, as natural gas hit $40 at the citygate for Southern California (prices hit $60 that Friday), I found myself in Colonial Williamsburg, a guest of Michigan State University's Institute of Public Utilities, at the group's annual conference, watching a panel of industry experts try in vain to explain what was happening.
Byline:
Bruce W. Radford
People
Byline:
Commissioner Nora Mead Brownell