How to allocate the costs.
How the filed-rate policy wreaks havoc — and what courts can do about it.
While NAESB and NERC struggle over the issue, North America steadily drifts toward unreliability.
Except for local reinforcements and new generation interconnections, few transmission construction proposals are moving forward.
Perspective
Grid reliability is one giant step in mainstreaming the technology.
Wind power is coming of age in the United States. During the past five years, installations have grown by an average 28 percent yearly. Gleaming, high-tech wind turbines now are interconnected to the bulk power grid in some 30 states.
Like it or not, changes are coming for electric cooperatives. Fewer and bigger might be the inevitable result.
When power planners at Basin Electric Power Cooperative began trying to decide how and where the company's next big power plant would be built, they did what a co-op does best -they reached out and formed a coalition.
What construction cost might prompt orders for new nuclear power plants in Texas?
How IT can allow utilities to invest in customers — and even improve returns — without breaking the bank.
A new approach to rate design.
Benchmarks
A hypothetical look at moneymakers across regions.