Off Peak

Electricity demands enter security mix at nation's airports.<b> </b>

Off Peak

October 15, 2001

Runway Reliability

 

Electricity demands enter security mix at nation's airports.

Perspective

Volatile wholesale market prices have put a damper on retail competition in Pennsylvania. But rate caps are not the answer.

"Both the environment and consumers will benefit in the end if retail electricity prices are allowed to "rise and fall according to market conditions."

Frontlines

Utilities face huge costs of complying with new EPA standards.

Frontlines

The Brink of Ruin?

 

 

Cooperative IPOs: Distinguishing Fact from Fantasy

The fundamental principles of cooperative operation are inherently in conflict with the traditional concept of an IPO.

1. Subordination of capital. Neither interest nor dividends may be paid on invested capital. Cooperatives provide for a return of capital-not a return on capital. Furthermore, neither the amount of patronage nor the amount of investment of a patron can determine such patron's degree of ownership or control of the organization, i.e., there must be patronage-based ownership.

Inside the IT Nerve Center

Managing information technology at the ISO, the trading platform, and two merging utilities.

"What the electricity market needs is a forward market with an ability to vary price and volume on an hour-by-hour basis."

Off Peak

Make that 2.3 cents-the miserly refund that California says it might owe for power that it sold to the Pacific Northwest.<b> </b>

Off Peak

October 1, 2001

Pennies From Heaven

 

Make that 2.3 cents-the miserly refund that California says it might owe for power that it sold to the Pacific Northwest.

Every time it rains ... it still leaves those hydro reservoirs just a little bit short.