News Analysis
Fuel costs drive electric prices, but generators seem perfectly willing to pay a premium for fuel when they're getting top dollar for power.
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Entergy's Grid Grab
Will tomorrow's transmission be privately funded, with the first-class seats reserved for investors?
The six o'clock news has locked its radar on California's power market meltdown, and rightly so. But that's no reason to overlook the nation's heartland, where a utility coming late to the game has set the pot boiling.
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California high school students put their education to work.<b> </b>
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February 15, 2001
Deregulation 101
California high school students put their education to work.
Jan. 11, 2001
Dear Secretary of Energy Richardson:
New Analysis
The ISO forges ahead, with or without its members.
News Analysis
PG&E's Hydro Workout: Can This Deal Be Saved?
For the utility, wresting its assets from PUC control is the real point.
For the utility, wresting its assets from PUC control is the real point.
Gas & Electric Co.'s 17-month-old proposal to divest its hydro assets via auction likely is dead, a casualty of California's ongoing energy market turmoil. Despite this reality, the utility's auction proposal remained active at the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) as of press time in mid-January, even as the governor and state legislature held emergency meetings amid rolling blackouts.
Was Gas to Blame? Exploring the Cause of California's High Prices
Basis exploded, but so did heat rates and NO<sub>x </sub>credits.
1 "Staff Report to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Western Markets and the Causes of the Summer 2000 Price Abnormalities," Nov. 1, 2000. Available on FERC website, www.ferc.gov. Hereinafter cited as Ferc Staff Report on California.
2 Source: Energy Security Analysis Inc. power databases using EIA form F900 and F759 data.
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<b>California Sen. Steve Peace says it wasn't him, and he has the video to prove it. </b>
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February 1, 2001
Who Lost Deregulation?
News Digest
Dynegy says California ISO grants sweetheart deals to out-of-state plants.
News Digest
Dynegy's David Francis, vice president for western power trading, testified on Dec. 21 on why he thought the ISO was bending the rules:
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Compassionate Competition?
With its own private power grid, Texas thinks it's got restructuring licked.
With its own private power grid, Texas thinks it's got restructuring licked.