Despite development challenges, LNG capacity is destined to play a bigger role in the U.S. energy mix.
Solving the dilemma.
A face-to-face interview with FERC Chairman Pat Wood III.
Utilities are absorbing distressed IPPs, and raising alarm bells in the process.
Wisconsinites don't fear 'Day 2.' But let's get the grid rights right.
Do-nothing regulators scare off investment, raising prospects for yet another large-scale power failure.
Legal challenges continue for the undersea transmission line.
Technology Corridor
Utilities are finding strategic benefits in demand-based metering technologies.
It's been years since utilities regarded customers as mere check-writing extensions of their meters. In fact, utilities' information technology focus during the past decade has centered on gaining greater control over customer information. The objective: Focus on-and fill-customer needs. The results are everywhere:
Frontlines
Is FERC the rightful heir?
The possibility that energy legislation drafted last year won't pass in 2004 has created a power vacuum. Who now is czar of electric utility reliability? Language in the proposed bill would have answered that question. But when Congress demurred, did that imply an endorsement of the ?
Electricity demand in parts of Europe is on the rise.
The European Union (EU), unlike the United States, enters 2004 with neither a constitution nor a European regulatory agency to oversee the EU's "single market" goals in energy. The EU, however, faces many cross-border issues affecting trade in electricity and natural gas, just as the United States does. While the member countries of the EU have become more energy efficient, new investment in all segments of electric infrastructure still is needed.