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Jun 19, 2013 to Jun 20, 2013 | Las Vegas, Nevada
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Key to the Citygate

Have gas prices fallen victim to speculation?

Bruce W. Radford

On Thursday, Dec. 8, as natural gas hit $40 at the citygate for Southern California (prices hit $60 that Friday), I found myself in Colonial Williamsburg, a guest of Michigan State University's Institute of Public Utilities, at the group's annual conference, watching a panel of industry experts try in vain to explain what was happening.

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Why power prices may have hit a new plateau, and what it all means.
Bruce W. Radford

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$$$/MWH???

 

 

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Bruce W. Radford

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Battle of Dunkirk

 

 

Utilities rush to save their last tenuous hold over the power plants they so smugly sold off.

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Bruce W. Radford

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Federalism At Work

 

 

Excerpts from the field hearing conducted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on wholesale power markets in California.

San Diego, California, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2000, 9 a.m.

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DC power makes a comeback in this vision of neighborhood grids and fuel cells on wheels.
Bruce W. Radford

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Engineers Have Their Day

 

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Some thoughts on the battle to measure electricity consumption in real time.
Bruce W. Radford

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Meter Men?

 

 

Some thoughts on the battle to measure electricity consumption in real time.

How can something so simple as an electric meter bring governments, editors, and the utility industry to their knees?

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California pays the bill, but who gets the blame- the feds or the fundamentals?
Bruce W. Radford

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Prices Hit a Pique

California pays the bill, but who gets the blame- the feds or the fundamentals?

What did they know and when did they know it? That's what California consumers are asking utility regulators and system operators, now that the heat of summer has made a shambles of the state's vision of electricity competition.

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Beware the transmission operator that is truly "independent."
Bruce W. Radford

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Price Cap Follies

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Never before have investors known less about what their company is up to.
Bruce W. Radford

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What's a Utility?

Never before have investors known less about what their company is up to.

How many different types of "utility" companies can you name? Which ones would you trust the most to double or triple your investment nest egg? Which ones make you nervous?

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Bruce W. Radford

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T+D Out, G+D In

Why not keep the power plants and sell off transmission instead?

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