News Analysis
The lawyers debated over ozone and soot, but the markets saw NO<sub>x</sub> as the "smoking gun."
News Analysis
California's Power Crisis: Catalyst for National Reform?
The challenge for Congress, FERC, and the new administration.
[T]he Commission believes that real rate relief for California electricity consumers will be fully realized in the State when sufficient new generation and transmission resources can be attracted and built and better demand-side management responses can be prompted. Only competitive markets will do these things. We believe it would be a mistake to revert to the kind of rate regulation that contributed to the decline in investment that clouds California's energy future today.
The New Venture Capitalists: Utilities Go Shopping for Deals
How gas supply and price disruptions now outweigh Big earnings potential plus an energy-related focus are prerequisites when AEP and Cinergy sort through investment projects.
The Venture Financiers: Still Bullish on Energy?
Their numbers remain small, but investors in energy technology say California's energy crisis this summer may be a boon.
Frontlines
Why power prices may have hit a new plateau, and what it all means.
Frontlines
$$$/MWH???
People
News Digest
News Digest
PUCs have yet to factor in higher risk for deregulation
PUCs have yet to factor in higher risk for deregulation.
(December, 2000) Here are the results of our annual survey of authorized rates of return on common equity (ROE) for state-regulated energy utilities. This year's survey covers ROE determinations by state regulatory commissions during the period Oct. 1, 1999 through Sept. 30, 2000.
Out of Touch With Consumers? The Regulators Give Their Side
Interviews with utility commissioners and consumer advocates in Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
"It's disappointing that the wholesale prices are as high as they are. All the parties expected prices to be significantly lower."
Alliance Gas Pipeline: Early, Late, or Just in Time?
A story of big gambles, big assumptions, and spark spreads now turned upside down.