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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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T+D Out, G+D In
Why not keep the power plants and sell off transmission instead?
A call for utilities to leave the marketing business.
Many of us on the front lines can identify with Stanley Klein's observation that, in terms of its implementation, the restructuring of the electric power industry is "fundamentally an information technology event."1
How to replace the bundled utility tariff with a rational design for access, throughput, and congestion.
PLT could allow energy companies to provide Internet, voice, and data via the grid, but technological hurdles and fierce competition remain obstacles.
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ISO Meltdown?
Some wanted to shut down New York's power markets. Then cooler heads prevailed.
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Scare Tactics
The Wall Street Journal is goading Congress to act. And it might just work, if the warnings come to pass.
On May 8 ISO New England predicted it would have enough electricity to meet peak demand this summer. But how much demand are you gonna see at $6,000 per megawatt-hour, which was the ISO's prevailing price that day from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m?
Wait for the "second wave," when new products help suppliers escape the trench warfare of pricing.
L.A. vs. The ISO
May 15, 2000
By Bruce Radford
News Digest