Take My Grid, Please! A Daring Proposal for Electric Transmission
Fortnightly
Break the regions and interconnections into smaller zones, then connect them only with DC lines.
DGital Mobility: Toward a Fluid Electric Infrastructure
Fortnightly
Why deregulation needs a technology reboot.
Frontlines
Fortnightly
California struggles over two different visions of >reliability.'
People
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News Digest
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Perspective
Fortnightly
When everyone has a voice, no one is heard.
Off Peak
Fortnightly
Match these utilities with companies they listed as among their 20 largest power purchasers.
Brazil, Mexico Vie for Merchant Plant Dollars
One is closer, and the other hotter, but each banks on market reform to attract U.S. and European investors.
LNG Makes a Comeback
After two dormant decades, the gas that travels in liquid form draws renewed interest, spurred by demand, shortage, and technology.
Assuring Enough Generation: Whose Job and How to Do It
A California failed to fashion proper incentives. Now others may repeat that mistake.
1 "Load-serving entities" are firms that serve retail electricity customers. These firms include utilities and power marketers.
2 See L.D. Kirsch, "ISO Economics: How California Flubbed It on Transmission Pricing", Public Utilities Fortnightly, Oct. 15, 1998, p. 24.
3 See J.E. Bowring and R.E. Gramlich, "The Role of Capacity Obligations in a Restructured Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Electricity Market", Electricity Journal, November 2000, pp. 57-67.