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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The Car of His Dreams
Amory Lovins says gas prices won't stick, but even if they do, he's still stuck on his Hypercar.
Amory Lovins says gas prices won't stick, but even if they do, he's still stuck on his Hypercar.
This just inif you can believe Amory Lovins, who has the news posted on the network of Web sites sponsored by his Rocky Mountain Institute.
From Fuel Cells to a Hydrogen-based Economy
How vehicle design is crucial to a new energy infrastructure.
1 For example, a 1992 A.D. Little study estimated that a from-scratch bulk hydrogen supply infrastructure sufficient for 25 million cars would require about $95 billion of investment, or $3,800 per car. This antiquated result is still being quoted, e.g. in the Epyx article in the December 1998 (Derby 1998).
2 e.g., Lomax et al. 1997.
Service to the 9's? Power Quality in a Tech-Wreck World
Why it's just as important for the old economy.
Why it's just as important for the old economy.
Mention "power quality" and the mind conjures up visions of tech hotels stuffed with Internet servers running 24/7, retrofitted into inner city industrial warehouses-buildings sturdy enough to forgive the heavy installation of custom power supply equipment and racks of batteries. Or perhaps Silicon Valley.
Surviving and Thriving in the RTO Revolution
How to design tariffs to improve reliability and attract merchant generation.
1 A representation of a generic interconnection, with thermal, hydro, and nuclear generation sharing a grid with a winter peaking load.
2 , 93 FERC 61,294, Dec. 15, 2000.
3 For a survey of methods, see J.W. Marangon Lima "Allocation of Transmission Fixed Charges: An Overview,", Vol. 11, No. 3, 1996.
Price Spike Tsunami: How Market Power Soaked California
Last year saw no shift in fundamentals. Then why was the ISO so willing to be deceived?
The Venture Financiers: Still Bullish on Energy?
Their numbers remain small, but investors in energy technology say California's energy crisis this summer may be a boon.
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Fossil Fuels and Energy Policy: Understanding the New Natural Gas Economy
How gas supply and price disruptions now outweigh oil imports as the nation's real energy problem.
Alliance Gas Pipeline: Early, Late, or Just in Time?
A story of big gambles, big assumptions, and spark spreads now turned upside down.