Frontlines
Some thoughts on the battle to measure electricity consumption in real time.
Frontlines
Meter Men?
Some thoughts on the battle to measure electricity consumption in real time.
How can something so simple as an electric meter bring governments, editors, and the utility industry to their knees?
Reforming Bulk Power Auctions: Why Not Pay According to Bid?
Changing settlement rules might offer a fix for broken power markets.
Politics as Usual: A Roadmap to Backlash, Backtracking, and Re-regulation
Utility reform gone wrong-tales from FERC, Florida, Wisconsin, and California.
1 Worse, new institutions such as the California ISO seem to believe falsely that their actions will not have serious spillover effects outside their immediate jurisdictional concerns. Electric utilities in neighboring states know that they indeed are affected by Cal-ISO pricing policy and terms of service.
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Rising Power Prices: The Metering Industry's Big Break?
San Diego Gas & Electric turns vendor heads with its plan to install real-time meters, but the company could face heat from regulators.
San Diego Gas & Electric turns vendor heads with its plan to install real-time meters, but the company could face heat from regulators.
This is a landmark event," says Bill Rush, a physicist at the Gas Technology Institute, and a gas industry expert on electric utility metering systems.
Off Peak
Payoffs don't stack up to the work involved in switching suppliers, say businesses.
Off Peak
September 15, 2000
The Big Letdown
Payoffs don't stack up to the work involved in switching suppliers, say businesses.
Switching electric suppliers appears to make for disappointed business customers.
Perspective
Ratepayers claim a piece of the overfunding, but there are two sides to the question.
Benchmarks
People
Frontlines
Two new transcos wake up to a stack of protests.
Frontlines
Pancakes for Breakfast?
Two new transcos wake up to a stack of protests.
With the first deadline only a month away, electric utilities have launched trial balloons before filing plans at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for regional transmission organizations (RTOs).