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So, You Want to be a Retail Energy Marketer?

Retail energy markets entail a unique set of risk management challenges.

As the march of retail competition, although slower, continues to move on the country, energy companies are finding they must be much more agile at managing the risks. A discussion of what energy suppliers ought to know.
Byline: 

David A. Foti and Martin F. Nellius III

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FERC's California Caps: Just Smoke and Mirrors?

Industry experts debate whether so-called “price mitigation measures” miraculously solved the California crisis.

Wholesale electricity prices are lower in California than they were last May, before FERC implemented price caps. But there is widespread disagreement over whether the caps were the cause of the lower prices, or merely coincidental with other downward pressures.
Byline: 

Jennifer Alvey

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The Rules of the Grid: Transmission Policy and Motives Gehind It

Making sense of RTO Week, the mediation talks, and FERC's promised new rulemaking.


 

Making sense of RTO Week, the mediation talks, and FERC's promised new rulemaking.

Dynegy's senior vice president Peter Esposito didn't think much about the celebrated mediation talks on forming a single, unified transmission grid for the Northeast U.S.

Byline: 
Bruce W. Radford
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Off Peak

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Off Peak

February 15, 2001

Deregulation 101

 

California high school students put their education to work.

Jan. 11, 2001

Dear Secretary of Energy Richardson:

Byline: 
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News Digest

 

News Digest


 

Byline: 
Calif. PUC Application 99-08-022, proposed decisions by Barnett (Aug. 2, 2000), Neeper (Sept. 19, 2000), and Bilas (Nov. 6, 2000)
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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.

Byline: 
Shmuel Oren and Pablo T. Spiller
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