Off Peak

February 15, 2001

Deregulation 101

 

California high school students put their education to work.

Jan. 11, 2001

Dear Secretary of Energy Richardson:

Off Peak

February 1, 2001

Who Lost Deregulation?

 

 

News Digest

 

 

The data is in. Market power fails as an explanatory variable for episodes of high prices.

The past summer represented a key turning point in our understanding of deregulated wholesale power markets. Until then, it was possible to find major North American markets that lacked any experience with severe price spikes. Now that immunity is denied. Price spikes in California and other Western markets mean that the last regions bucking the trend have fallen in line.

 

San Diego Gas & Electric turns vendor heads with its plan to install real-time meters, but the company could face heat from regulators.

This is a landmark event," says Bill Rush, a physicist at the Gas Technology Institute, and a gas industry expert on electric utility metering systems.

Off Peak

September 1, 2000

Wakeup Call in San Diego?

By Regina R. Johnson

News Digest

 

 

Wait for the "second wave," when new products help suppliers escape the trench warfare of pricing.

The top traders, investors and managers tell why energy convergence is still a pipe dream.

[Graphic tables included in the print version of the Fortnightly are not included in this electronic version.]

Energy investors seemed less willing in 1999 to greet electric/gas combination mergers with the kind of blind enthusiasm they tended to show in prior years.

Instead, they now demand proof that energy convergence really does create tangible value beyond the mere sum of the parts. At least that's the impression gained from talking with John W.