The industry continues to debate the costs and technology of automated meter reading, even as some regulators insist on immediate implementation.
Lori A. Burkhart and Richard Stavros
The industry continues to debate the costs and technology of automated meter reading, even as some regulators insist on immediate implementation.
How can transmission providers safely serve noncreditworthy customers?
J. Michel Marcoux and Thomas L. Blackburn
The California ISO's intermittent resource program addresses a key market barrier to wind power: how to schedule wind energy in forward markets.
Randy Abernathy
PUC could oust PG&E from the project, finding no need for an upgrade.
Lori A. Burkhart
PUC could oust PG&E from the project, finding no need for an upgrade.
Nearly a year after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave its blessing for upgrading California's notorious "Path 15" transmission bottleneck, an administrative law judge (ALJ) at the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has thrown a monkeywrench into the plan.
California must address its transmission problems, particularly Path 15.
Ben Richardson and Steve Piper
Crisis Aftermath: Piecing Western Markets Together
Why power plants should pay for grid upgrades.
Cliff Rochlin and Jeff Huang
Why power plants should pay for grid upgrades.
Do we make all generators equal-using affirmative action to give rights to merchants that are "comparable" to utility-owned plants?
Or, do we let the locational price signals shine through-trusting all plant developers, whether regulated or not, to act in self-interest?
Several issues need to be addressed before municipals and co-ops participate significantly in regional transmission organizations.
Lisa G. Dowden, Ben Finkelstein, and David E. Pomper
Plugging cyber security holes isn't as easy as everyone wants to think.
Jennifer Alvey
Industry experts debate whether so-called "price mitigation measures" miraculously solved the California crisis.
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Off Peak
November 15, 2001
Markets Behaving Badly
To understand 'gaming,' be a gamer.
FERC Staff Member: What sort of behavior is wrong?
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