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

Benchmarks

Frontlines

The Brink of Ruin?

 

 

Declaring Emergencies in California: The Realities of ISO Operation

 

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.

"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

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.

 

News Analysis

 

IPPs and other stakeholders long have called for standards, but this time, the FERC just might oblige.

 

"Certain transmission owners ... have impeded the interconnection process and, thereby, new generation construction."

"Many transmission providers also refuse to offer network transmission service to merchant generators ... ."

Some want a tighter grip on generators, but FERC should steer clear.