Hydro

Let's Be Rational About Hydrogen as a Vehicular Fuel

A response to “Forgetting Someone, Mr. Secretary?” Frontlines, Feb 1, 2002.

Mr. Stavros seems to fall into the same trap as so many of the major car manufacturers in assuming the need for a prohibitively costly infrastructure to supply this hydrogen when one already exists that offers by far the cheapest and environmentally vastly superior option—the natural gas transmission and distribution system.
Byline: 

Henry R. Linden

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Forgetting Someone, Mr. Secretary?

The DOE's new hydrogen car initiative won't get very far without electric utilities.

Secretary Spencer Abraham announced that the DOE and the nation’s carmakers would create a public-private partnership to promote hydrogen as a primary fuel for cars and trucks. He didn't mention how much the program would cost, how long it would take, or define what infrastructure the government would develop to support hydrogen transportation.
Byline: 

Richard Stavros

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The Rules of the Grid: Transmission Policy and Motives Gehind It

Making sense of RTO Week, the mediation talks, and FERC's promised new rulemaking.


 

Making sense of RTO Week, the mediation talks, and FERC's promised new rulemaking.

Dynegy's senior vice president Peter Esposito didn't think much about the celebrated mediation talks on forming a single, unified transmission grid for the Northeast U.S.

Byline: 
Bruce W. Radford
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Frontlines

Regulators face a daunting task in sorting out power refunds in the Pacific Northwest.

Frontlines

Ripple Effects

 

Byline: 
Bruce W. Radford
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Frontlines

Forced consolidation of RTOs would set transmission owners free to go after profits.

Frontlines

Bullish for Business

 

 

Byline: 
Bruce W. Radford
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Wind Power, Poised for Take Off?

A survey of projects and economics.

Wind Power: Poised for Take Off?



 

A survey of projects and economics.

The amount of electricity generated from wind in the U.S. is expected to surge this year - owing in large part to hydropower shortages out West, natural gas price volatility across the country, and high capacity factors for wind turbines, which help to offset the intermittent nature of wind energy generation.

Byline: 
Christine Real de Azua
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News Digest (July 15, 2001)

Compiled June 21, 2001 by Bruce W. Radford, editor-in-chief, from contributions as noted from Carl J. Levesque, associate editor, and Phillip S. Cross and Lori A. Burkhart, contributing legal editors.
Byline: 

Bruce W. Radford, Carl J. Levesque, Phillip S. Cross, Lori A. Burkhart

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News Digest

 

News Digest


 

Byline: 
News Digest was compiled by Carl J. Levesque, associate editor for Public Utilities Fortnightly.
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