Frontlines
<b>Beware the transmission operator that is truly "independent." </b>
Frontlines
Price Cap Follies
The Standard Offer: State-by-State Evolution
<b>Massachusetts: Moving to Market Prices</b>
A look at the various approaches regulators have taken to pricing energy in competitive markets, and how some are rethinking those plans.
Energy Retailing: Setting a Standard Offer for Every Season
Sending Price Signals, Without Illegal Tying
For deregulation to work, consumers must see the real price-- including all utility costs.
The Next Killer App: Load Management, Only This Time for Real
Tomorrow's Network: A Two-Way Street
The technology is here. What's missing is the will to use it.
EPA's Emissions Rule: Reliability at Stake?
SIP Call in a Nutshell
Some fear NOx controls will spawn outages and higher power prices.
Utility executives say the EPA's plan to reduce ground-level ozone in the nation's eastern half by controlling emissions of nitrogen oxides in upwind states could undermine electric reliability and force power prices higher.
Off Peak
Didn't Congress fix this problem a decade ago?
Off Peak
July 15, 2000
Gas Price Pains
By Regina R. Johnson
Didn't Congress fix this problem a decade ago?
Then:
News Analysis
<b>Methods vary, notes one analyst, but are they barking up the wrong tree?</b>
News Analysis
Electric Shopping Credits: In Search of an Apples- to-Apples Comparison
Benchmarks
People
Frontlines
<b>Never before have investors known less about what their company is up to. </b>
Frontlines
What's a Utility?
Never before have investors known less about what their company is up to.
How many different types of "utility" companies can you name? Which ones would you trust the most to double or triple your investment nest egg? Which ones make you nervous?