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Fortnightly Magazine - October 1 2000

Off Peak

Why do U.S. electric bills continue to climb, when other liberalized Western countries are seeing reductions?

Off Peak

October 1, 2000

Dereg Dilemma

Why do U.S. electric bills continue to climb, when other liberalized Western countries are seeing reductions?

Electric deregulation in the United States isn't slashing consumer bills the way it has in other countries. Despite continuing restructuring, the price of U.S. electricity ranked second-highest in an April survey of 14 major Western economies.

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Rising Power Prices: The Metering Industry's Big Break?

San Diego Gas & Electric turns vendor heads with its plan to install real-time meters, but the company could face heat from regulators.


 

San Diego Gas & Electric turns vendor heads with its plan to install real-time meters, but the company could face heat from regulators.

This is a landmark event," says Bill Rush, a physicist at the Gas Technology Institute, and a gas industry expert on electric utility metering systems.

Byline: 
Bruce W. Radford
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Politics as Usual: A Roadmap to Backlash, Backtracking, and Re-regulation

Utility reform gone wrong-tales from FERC, Florida, Wisconsin, and California.

1 Worse, new institutions such as the California ISO seem to believe falsely that their actions will not have serious spillover effects outside their immediate jurisdictional concerns. Electric utilities in neighboring states know that they indeed are affected by Cal-ISO pricing policy and terms of service.

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Byline: 
Charles J. Cicchetti, Ph.D. and Colin M. Long, J.D.
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Frontlines

Some thoughts on the battle to measure electricity consumption in real time.

Frontlines

Meter Men?

 

 

Some thoughts on the battle to measure electricity consumption in real time.

How can something so simple as an electric meter bring governments, editors, and the utility industry to their knees?

Byline: 
Bruce W. Radford
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News Digest

PUC Oversight: Panacea or New Problem?

News Digest


 

Byline: 
Docket No. ER97-2353-000, Opinion No. 447, 92 FERC ¶61,169, Aug. 17, 2000
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News Analysis

According to the solar industry, a U.S. appeals court decision—and a Southern California Edison petition pending at the FERC—might put them out of business.

 

News Analysis

 



 

According to the solar industry, a U.S. appeals court decision—and a Southern California Edison petition pending at the FERC—might put them out of business.

"If Edison were to prevail in this, it would have hugely negative implications for the solar operators."

Byline: 
Carl J. Levesque
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