Neptune and the Northeast
Neptune and the Northeast
Neptune and the Northeast
Interviews with software middlemen.
Lawrence Oliva
Partner, Utility Practice Group
Andersen
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?
Forced consolidation of RTOs would set transmission owners free to go after profits.
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.
Gas pipelines compete against electric transmission lines. And the pipes are winning.
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