The Barriers to Real-Time Pricing: Separating Fact From Fiction
Real-time pricing has been hindered by the misperception that a shift to RTP will create new types of risks, without creating benefits for utilities or customers.
Duke Energy
Bragawatts: Nothing to Brag About
So-called 'round-trip trades' and what FERC should do about it.
Power trading companies that make the cut on the top-10 ranking list essentially have won the right to brag ... or have they?
The Perils of Ignoring Mother Nature
Experts say utilities' inconsistent approach to weather risk is costing them dearly.
Since their creation, energy companies have been powerless to defend themselves against the weather’s financial impact on business. No longer. An overview of what weather risk management has achieved.
A Hope, A Wing, and A Prayer: Toward a Standard Market Design for RTOs
On the virtues and vices of ICAP, ACAP, FTRs, hubs, flowgates, DAMs, and gaming.
An in-depth analysis of the myriad of issues affecting the true development of competitive power markets.
People (April 15, 2002)
Stephen P. Reynolds succeeds William S. Weaver as president and CEO for Puget Energy. NERC elected Bruce A. Scherr to its independent board of trustees. Jim Wise, chairman and CEO of Neostar Group Inc., has joined the volunteer leadership team of the Resource Alliance Group of Houston. And others ...
M&A 2002: The Need for Strategic Clarity
What type of merger strategy should energy companies pursue in light of new industry uncertainties?
Bush's Cloudy Skies?
Experts debate whether Bush’s Clear Skies plan on power plant emissions clears the way for better emissions technologies.
The Bush administration has yet to deliver a detailed plan of its Clear Skies program-no legislation has been introduced. Even without many details, there's plenty to argue about. At the top of the list is whether a cap-and-trade program will truly reduce emissions more than the current command-and-control regime.
People (Feb 15, 2002)
Dan Boverman has been appointed vice president and CFO for Celerity Energy. SEMCO Energy appointed John E. Schneider as CFO. Constellation Energy has announced several personnel changes. And others ...
Going Global: The Top 10 Risks
What utilities ought to know before doing business overseas.
An investigation into the top 10 risks of foreign investment shows the curses and the blessings of wanting to be a global utility.
FERC's California Caps: Just Smoke and Mirrors?
Industry experts debate whether so-called “price mitigation measures” miraculously solved the California crisis.
Wholesale electricity prices are lower in California than they were last May, before FERC implemented price caps. But there is widespread disagreement over whether the caps were the cause of the lower prices, or merely coincidental with other downward pressures.