FERC At 25
A leaner bureaucracy sharpens its market-monitoring tools.
FERC turns 25 this year. With Enron’s collapse and California’s unraveled electric restructuring scheme, the silver anniversary reminiscing may be slightly muted.
Wag the Dog
Pack journalists feed off PG&E letter.
Was Pacific Gas and Electric’s recent customer mailing of a dog-bite letter and meter-reading schedule a selfless attempt to protect its employees from vicious canines? Or was the notice to dog owners a catty move to get the California press off the scent of Pacific Gas and Electric’s bankruptcy proceedings?
The V2G Concept: A New Model for Power?
Connecting utility infrastructure and automobiles.
Blurring the line between transportation and utility infrastructure, new fuel cell and electric vehicles being proposed could be a new power source for electric utilities.
The Aftermath of Alliance
What can we learn from its failure?
What does its downfall mean for the industry?
Gas-Power Infrastructure: The Missing Link?
Presenting an option to solving electric transmission congestion.
Fixing electric transmission congestion has been dominating market design policy debates since the beginning of restructuring. Could the gas pipeline infrastructure offer a solution?
The Energy Tech Chronicles: Will Bust Turn to Boom?
Overcoming many obstacles, energy technology continues to have potential.
California: Beginning Anew
The 2002 rhetoric sounds like pro-electric competition, but is it too little, too late?
In its recent efforts to tie up the loose ends left from the California Crisis, is the state setting itself up for a sequel, California Crisis II: A Not So Beautiful Market?
Letter to the Editor: The Enron Spin
A Response to "A Wrinkle in Time" from the Jan. 2002 issue.
People (Feb 15, 2002)
Dan Boverman has been appointed vice president and CFO for Celerity Energy. SEMCO Energy appointed John E. Schneider as CFO. Constellation Energy has announced several personnel changes. And others ...
Concentrated Transmission Assets
Public Utilities Fortnightly and POWERdat®
Investment in transmission is likely to surge in the buying and selling of transmission assets and in the restructuring of the transmission business.