The Choice Not to Buy: Energy $avings and Policy Alternatives for Demand Response

What California would have saved-in real dollar figures-plus a look at pilot programs from around the country.

1 Also cited as contributing factors are the lack of long-term contracting, operating problems in the ISO and power exchange (PX) markets, and suggestions that owners of generation took advantage of the supply shortage and the design of California's wholesale power markets to exercise market power to drive prices higher.

Byline: 
Steven Braithwait and Ahmad Faruqui
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News Digest

The California ISO offers a plan, but some fear that rules themselves are the problem.

 

News Digest


 

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ISO Credit Requirements.
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News Digest

The California ISO offers a plan, but some fear that rules themselves are the problem.

 

News Digest


 

Transmission & ISOs

Policing the Markets

The California ISO offers a plan, but some fear that rules themselves are the problem.

Byline: 
Bruce W. Radford
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News Analysis

With power markets now regional, the Pacific Northwest ponders responsibility for blackouts and outages.

 

News Analysis

 



 

Byline: 
Carl J. Levesque
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Off Peak

There's nothing quite like a consumer scorned..<b> </b>

Off Peak

March 15, 2001

'I See Now I Was Naive'

 

There's nothing quite like a consumer scorned..

Excerpts from letters sent by private citizens to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and made a part of the official in RDocket No. EL00-95-000.

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Dancing With Goliath: Prospects After the Breakup of Ontario Hydro

How market power likely will emerge, despite the government's good intentions.

¥ CUSTOMBid is a product of Mellowmede Ltd., developed in consultation with the staff of London Economics International LLC. London Economics International LLC is an exclusive licensee of CUSTOMBid.

# "Cournot competition" refers to an oligopoly in which each firm believes that its rivals are committed to a certain level of production and that rivals will reduce their prices as needed to sell that amount.

Byline: 
A.J. Goulding, Julia Frayer, and Nazli Z. Uludere
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