Demand response could help solve some energy problems, but not without state regulators pushing for it.
Chris King and Dan Delurey
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.
Ahmad Faruqui and Melanie Mauldin
A review of endless impossibilities.
Off Peak
June 15 , 2002
Enrob Annual Report 2001.
A review of endless impossibilities.
Enrob sure took its time releasing its 2001 annual report. It arrived in the Fortnightly's mailbox in May, a good month or two later than other Fortune 500 companies released their 2001 financial performance reviews.
There will be ample U.S. natural gas supplies to support a 30 Tcf market by 2010.
Henry R. Linden
Overcoming many obstacles, energy technology continues to have potential.
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Enron's fall finds FERC toying with cost-based rates. But let's temper the nostalgia.
AEP Power Marketing Inc., 97 FERC ¶61,219,
Off Peak
November 15, 2001
Markets Behaving Badly
To understand 'gaming,' be a gamer.

FERC Staff Member: What sort of behavior is wrong?
Regulators will have to decide who pays to upgrade the transmission system.
Ruth K. Kretschmer and Kenneth E. Hundrieser
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Regulators will have to decide who pays to upgrade the transmission system.

A case study from Maryland on electric restructuring.
Kevin Monagle
Any plan to reduce energy consumption should rest on economics not ideology.
Henry R. Linden
1 "Annual Energy Outlook 2001 With Projections to 2020," Energy Information Administration, Document No. DOE/EIA-0383(2001), December 2000.
2 Oil Resources Panel and Commentary by W.L. Fisher et al, "An Assessment of the Oil Resource Base of the United States," U.S. Department of Energy, Bartlesville Project Office, Document No. DOE/BC-93/1/SF (October 1992).
3 Henry R. Linden, "Let's Focus on Sustainability, Not Kyoto," The Electricity Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2, March 1999, pp. 56-67.
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