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Reliability

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State PUCs

Restructuring Plans. The Ohio PUC denied rehearing of its restructuring order for FirstEnergy issued two months earlier, rejecting arguments by all petitioners-utility, marketers, and consumer watchdog groups.

Byline: 
Case No. 99-1212- EL-ETP, Sept. 13, 2000 (Ohio P.U.C.)
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A Eulogy for RTOs—Interregional is Better

Thoughts on the eve of FERC's filing deadline for regional transmission organizations.

1 Ilic, Zaborszky, "Dynamics and Control of Large Electric Power Systems," John Wiley & Sons, 2000 (800 page text).

2 Ilic, Arce, Yoon, Fumagali, "Assessing Reliability Under Open Access," to be published in The Electricity Journal, December 2000.

3 For more information, please contact the author and/or the MIT Technology Licensing Office, making reference to MIT Case # 9062.

Byline: 
Marija Ilic
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PUC Oversight: Panacea or New Problem?

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Byline: 
Docket No. ER97-2353-000, Opinion No. 447, 92 FERC ¶61,169, Aug. 17, 2000
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Off Peak

Payoffs don't stack up to the work involved in switching suppliers, say businesses.

Off Peak

September 15, 2000

The Big Letdown

Payoffs don't stack up to the work involved in switching suppliers, say businesses.

Switching electric suppliers appears to make for disappointed business customers.

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