Standby Generation: A New Proposition
A cost/benefit analysis of full interconnection of customer-owned standby generators.
Investigating the economic impact of interconnecting a backup generator with a utility-owned power system.
Distributed Generation: Hype vs. Hope
Separating myth from reality in identifying DG applications.
Technological breakthroughs in distributed generation have not materialized as quickly as expected. Furthermore, manufacturers have continued to improve traditional generation technologies. So what role can DG play?
Backtracking in Georgia
The customer is always right.
Given all the flack it’s caught of late, it may not be too far off before Georgia’s esteemed deregulation program is saddled with the label of “fiasco” and “debacle.” The timing is strikingly similar to California, where that state’s electric restructuring experiment crumbled in the summer of 2000, two years and change after the flawed plan switched on.
Energy Customers Focused on Bottom-Line
Public Utilities Fortnightly and POWERdat®
To control their energy budgets in this environment, corporate energy managers must quickly become familiar with markets in which they are inexperienced participants.
Letter to the Editor (May 15, 2002)
EPSA exec rebukes McCullough's claims.
A response to the article "Revisiting California," April 1, 2002: If the issues confronting California’s ratepayers weren’t so important, it would be easy to say that Robert McCullough’s efforts are best published on April Fools Day.
People (May 15, 2002)
Dr. Janice A. Beecher has been named director of the Institute of Pubic Utilities at Michigan State University. Calpine announced several promotions to its senior management team. Alliant Energy also announced several new appointments. And others ...
Biting Pat Wood's Hand
FERC finds the states have teeth, too.
FERC Chairman Pat Wood ought to be commended for trying to extend a hand of cooperation to state PUCs. But certainly he must by now understand that the nature of the state regulator, as the nature of the wolf, is unchangeable.
Potential Exposure: The Long View on Credit Risk
Tools for measuring credit risk.
Taking a fresh look at issues surrounding industry credit risk.
The Production Tax Credit: Getting More Credit Than It's Due?
State government may have done more for wind power than PTC ever did.
There are many other factors stimulating growth in U.S. wind power development that are more important than the PTC.
Cape Cod: Twisting in the Wind?
Wind developers face a backlash from citizens.
A proposed offshore wind farm just a few miles from the historic, and tourist-packed, beaches of Cape Cod has sparked citizen opposition.