The Energy Tech Chronicles: Will Bust Turn to Boom?
Overcoming many obstacles, energy technology continues to have potential.
Hydro
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.
The Rules of the Grid: Transmission Policy and Motives Gehind It
Making sense of RTO Week, the mediation talks, and FERC's promised new rulemaking.
Making sense of RTO Week, the mediation talks, and FERC's promised new rulemaking.
Dynegy's senior vice president Peter Esposito didn't think much about the celebrated mediation talks on forming a single, unified transmission grid for the Northeast U.S.
Declaring Emergencies in California: The Realities of ISO Operation
An independent system operator's view on the energy crisis and the realities of maintaining reliability.
Declaring Emergencies in California: The Realities of ISO Operation
Frontlines
Regulators face a daunting task in sorting out power refunds in the Pacific Northwest.
Frontlines
Ripple Effects
Wind Power, Poised for Take Off?
A survey of projects and economics.
An industry advocate touts the recent rise of projects in the pipeline and forsees remarkable growth in wind farms over the next twenty years — more, perhaps, than others would concede.
Bullish for Business
Forced consolidation of RTOs would set transmission owners free to go after profits.
Forced consolidation of RTOs would set transmission owners free to go after profits.
News Digest (July 15, 2001)
Compiled June 21, 2001 by Bruce W. Radford, editor-in-chief, from contributions as noted from Carl J. Levesque, associate editor, and Phillip S. Cross and Lori A. Burkhart, contributing legal editors.
News Digest
News Digest
Money, Power and Trade: What You Never Knew About the Western Energy Crisis
Fortnightly
Fortnightly