Off Peak
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Off Peak
December 2001
Please Pass the Potatoes
Dynegy is hungry for your attention.
Dynegy's Chuck Watson never had much of an appetite for seeing his company's name in lights.
IT
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.
Frontlines
Regulators face a daunting task in sorting out power refunds in the Pacific Northwest.
Frontlines
Ripple Effects
Frontlines
A reader claims that wholesale power competition makes conservation more valuable than before.
Frontlines
DSM Revisited
Neptune and the Northeast
What a merchant transmission line <br> could bring to the table<font color="000066" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">.
Neptune and the Northeast
Frontlines
California sued El Paso for gaming the pipeline. But the blame may lie to the East.
Frontlines
The Great Gas Grab
Sweating the Deadline: What Consolidation Means for Traders and Vendors
Interviews with software middlemen.
Interviews with software middlemen.
Lawrence Oliva
Partner, Utility Practice Group
Andersen
Don't Rush the Seamstress: Second Thoughts on the Marriage of the Northeast Grids
Why a standard design in each ISO is no guarantee of regional coordination.
By Marija Ilic and Leonard Hyman
Why a standard design in each ISO is no guarantee of regional coordination.
How do you complete an efficient transaction that requires the cooperation of two or more markets when each is operated independently of the other?
ICAP: A Make-Believe Market?
New England puts a price on electric reliability, but some say the charge looks more like a tax.
Does ICAP qualify as a true commercial product, traded on its own merit with a tangible value for customers?
Izzbee, Izz it?
The Energy Industry Standards Board doesn't exist yet, but it's got regulators talking.
More than two years ago, I suggested in this column that regional independent system operators would likely supplant the regional reliability councils as the caretakers of electric system reliability. And that's still possible—if the ISOs move quickly to RTO status, and if the RTOs get cracking right away on adopting uniform business rules. But the FERC may get tired waiting for that to happen.