Market-Power Tests: A review of FERC’s market-based rate (MBR) screens, from theory to application.
FERC’s market-power screens have been tested and found wanting in some areas. The author examines the screens’ strengths and weaknesses, then proposes future solutions.
Power System Planning: Who gets paid (and how much) for backing up the system?
Windpower is caught in a vicious cycle of Washington politics. Escaping the cycle will require visionary leadership in Congress and the utility industry.
A review of the ongoing evolution of market design.
Electric M&A: The merger with PSE&G may herald a new industry structure, squarely at odds with regional markets.
Exelon Chairman, President, and CEO John W. Rowe, on the proposed merger that would create the largest utility in the United States.
Where Entergy leads, will Wal-Mart follow?
Gas distributors tell how their business strategies are changing in response to issues such as higher gas prices, electric M&A, LNG, and gas pipeline development.
Why does FERC want to limit pipeline discounts?