End the Gridlock: Why Transmission is Ripe for New Technology
Recent advances in materials science promise a new, truly competitive paradigm for grid investment without land-use headaches or "big-iron" solutions.
Congress
News Analysis
The lawyers debated over ozone and soot, but the markets saw NO<sub>x</sub> as the "smoking gun."
News Analysis
News Digest
News Digest
Fossil Fuels and Energy Policy: Understanding the New Natural Gas Economy
How gas supply and price disruptions now outweigh oil imports as the nation's real energy problem.
Off Peak
Oracle's energy director tells Congress how new-economy firms are taking reliability concerns into their own hands.
Off Peak
November 1, 2000
Customers Move On
Oracle's energy director tells Congress how new-economy firms are taking reliability concerns into their own hands.
Perspective
Ten ways to fix the mess in electric restructuring.
Wild Prices Out West: What Can Be Done?
The problems stem from a lack of incentives for long-term, fixed-price contracts.
The problems stem from a lack of incentives for long-term, fixed-price contracts.
The end of summer found energy regulators working overtime in California to appease an angry public that had seen electric bills double and triple in some parts of the state.
Frontlines
<b>Beware the transmission operator that is truly "independent." </b>
Frontlines
Price Cap Follies
Energy Retailing: Setting a Standard Offer for Every Season
Sending Price Signals, Without Illegal Tying
For deregulation to work, consumers must see the real price-- including all utility costs.
EPA's Emissions Rule: Reliability at Stake?
SIP Call in a Nutshell
Some fear NOx controls will spawn outages and higher power prices.
Utility executives say the EPA's plan to reduce ground-level ozone in the nation's eastern half by controlling emissions of nitrogen oxides in upwind states could undermine electric reliability and force power prices higher.