Fuel Prices: Headed for a Bull Market
The price cycle is turning skyward for gas, coal, and crude oil.
Energy Information Administration
Changing the Fuel Mix: Time for a Nuclear Rescue?
Gas-fired power is king today, but fuel diversity needs and new technologies may open the door for nuclear and coal.
By Lori A. Burkhart
Gas-fired power is king today, but fuel diversity needs and new technologies may open the door for nuclear and coal.
The nation's demand for electricity is expected to grow by over 40 percent in the next 20 years, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Meeting that need will require a great number of new generating plants. The burning question is, what will fuel these new plants?
Loss Modeling in T&D Systems: Is $25 Billion Worth Losing?
Energy players can lose a lot more than their shirt if they fail to model transmission losses properly.
Let's Be More Positive About Natural Gas!
There will be ample U.S. natural gas supplies to support a 30 Tcf market by 2010.
There will be ample natural gas supplies for a 30 Tcf market by 2010.
Moving Gas to Generate Power: An Encore for Hrehor/Sytsma
While responsive to the operational requirements of the particular systems, several new pipeline services enable generators to react more promptly to spiking electric demand.
Putting flesh on the gas-power vision, pipeline efforts to formulate services for generators, and FERC orders governing those efforts now assume a discernible shape. This is a reasonable time to take stock.
Forgetting Someone, Mr. Secretary?
The DOE's new hydrogen car initiative won't get very far without electric utilities.
Secretary Spencer Abraham announced that the DOE and the nation’s carmakers would create a public-private partnership to promote hydrogen as a primary fuel for cars and trucks. He didn't mention how much the program would cost, how long it would take, or define what infrastructure the government would develop to support hydrogen transportation.
Off Peak
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Off Peak
November 1, 2001
Nightmare Scenario
Professor chokes on green group emissions.
Nuclear and Coal: Rebirth on the Horizon?
An analysis of the business opportunities behind coal and nuclear plant expansion.
An analysis of the business opportunities behind coal and nuclear plant expansion.
Electric power industry trade publications and the popular media have noted a growing interest in the rebirth of both nuclear power and coal-fired generation. These technologies would be a supplement to, or an alternative to, the natural gas fired generation that appears to be the predominant fuel and technology for new power generation facilities in the coming decade.
Natural Gas Hedging: A Primer for Utilities and Regulators
What commissions need to learn. <br>What LDCs should already know.
Natural Gas Hedging: A Primer for Utilities and Regulators
What commissions need to learn.
What LDCs should already know.The facts are now in. If utilities had hedged their natural gas purchases during the 1990s, they could have earned windfalls for those they serve, given the wild price gyrations of the past decade (). Yet few if any households or businesses saw any windfall, because few utilities were engaged in futures and other derivatives markets.
Wind Power, Poised for Take Off?
A survey of projects and economics.
Wind Power: Poised for Take Off?
A survey of projects and economics.
The amount of electricity generated from wind in the U.S. is expected to surge this year - owing in large part to hydropower shortages out West, natural gas price volatility across the country, and high capacity factors for wind turbines, which help to offset the intermittent nature of wind energy generation.