From Pipeline to Turbine: Policy and Myths on Shipping Gas for Electric Generation
How the FERC is bending over backwards to OK new gas services for power producers.
Looking Past California: The Emerging Shape of the Generation Sector
Which states had their plants sold off, which didn't, and which ones now face serious price risk.
1 See "" by Energy Ventures Analysis Inc. www.evainc.com
2 See "", published in June 2000 by PJM's Market Monitoring Unit, p. 2. In the year 2000, in five NERC power regions, natural gas represented more than 10 percent of total generation: ERCOT 53.3 percent, SPP 28.4 percent, NPCC (NY/NE) 25.6 percent, Florida (FRCC) 23.8 percent and WSCC 21.8 percent. In PJM only 8.7 percent of generation was gas-fired. Source: Form 759 and 900 data as complied by EVA, Inc.
3 , April 24, 2001, p. A-21.
Off Peak
Regulators count on price signals to force consumers to behave.<b> </b>
Off Peak
May 15, 2001
Now Do as You're Told
Regulators count on price signals to force consumers to behave.
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News Analysis
<br> And in Texas, all customer information flows through ERCOT.
News Analysis
And in Texas, all customer information flows through ERCOT.
Texas thinks it has the right formula for retail choice.
When queried on the wisdom of its restructuring plan relative to California's restructuring woes, Texas likes to point to the new generation capacity coming online, and a supply-demand balance much more favorable than California's.
Perspective
What's been missing - until now - are regional exchanges to provide access to networks.
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News Digest
Benchmarks
Benchmarks
People
Frontlines
Region's fight over summer capacity reserves hints that all is not well.
California's Power Gamble: Long-Term Contracts, Locked-In Risk
High profit potential will attract new power plants, forcing prices down and stranding the state's long-term electricity purchases.
High profit potential will attract new power plants, forcing prices down and stranding the state's long-term electricity purchases.
Let's consider three questions crucial to California's energy crisis and its plans for solution.