Stringing Transmission Lines, Untangling Red Tape
Centralized federal oversight sounds good, but what about squabbles between separate federal agencies?
Frontlines
California sued El Paso for gaming the pipeline. But the blame may lie to the East.
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The Great Gas Grab
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The General Trend
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Off Peak
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Off Peak
September 1, 2001
Online Shopping
Now you can buy a 20-MW gas turbine without ever leaving your desk.
Larceny Debunked
Reliant comes clean on profits, says California picked its own pocket.
While the media made hay chiding power producers for gouging consumers for electricity generated from gas-fired turbines, California' s system of a single market-clearing price for electricity was "delivering immense windfalls" to utilities who had no need to buy gas at all to run the power plants they still owned (or controlled through affiliates).
ICAP: A Make-Believe Market?
New England puts a price on electric reliability, but some say the charge looks more like a tax.
Does ICAP qualify as a true commercial product, traded on its own merit with a tangible value for customers?
Wind Power, Poised for Take Off?
A survey of projects and economics.
An industry advocate touts the recent rise of projects in the pipeline and forsees remarkable growth in wind farms over the next twenty years — more, perhaps, than others would concede.
It Ain't Over...'Til It's over: Retail Choice is Working, Despite the Wait for Real Competition
A case study from Maryland on electric restructuring.
A local utility exec admits that Maryland has no truly competitive power market, but claims customer choice is still a good thing.
Should Government Open the Books of the Merchant Gen Sector?
EIA Data Tracking
The EIA also wants to collect data — finances, operations, emissions, fuel consumption and costs — from non-utility generators. What’s the public interest here?