And where the trouble spots lie in FERC's grid plan.
See Affidavit of William H. Dunn, Jr., on behalf of the Montana Consumer Counsel, FERC Docket No. RT01-35, filed 5/29/02
And where the trouble spots lie in FERC's grid plan.
The mood appeared calm on June 26 in Washington, D.C., at the regular bi-weekly meeting of the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Key officials from various regional transmission organizations (RTOs) had gathered before chairman Pat Wood and the other commissioners to brief them on progress over the past year in reforming wholesale electric markets, and on what the FERC might expect in the summer at hand.
The smart money now treats transmission as a player. Just like generation. Just like load.
Over at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, new chairman Pat Wood has let it be known he might have done it the other way. If he had been in charge, say the press reports, he would have postponed Order 2000. He would not have asked electric utilities for any commitment to join a regional transmission organization (RTO) until after the FERC had first devised a comprehensive set of rules-a standard market design (SMD)-for RTOs and stand-alone independent transmission companies (transco's, or ITCs).
On the virtues and vices of ICAP, ACAP, FTRs, hubs, flowgates, DAMs, and gaming.
Bruce W. Radford
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What can we learn from its failure?
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What can we learn from its failure?
That the end of Alliance Company's RTO dreams came swiftly is clear. Whether the denial of regional transmission organization (RTO) status to Alliance means anything outside the Midwest is anything but.
Thomas R. Kuhn is president of the Edison Electric Institute, the Washington-based association of U.S. shareholder-owned electric utilities that deliver nearly three-fourths of the nation's electric power.
Making sense of RTO Week, the mediation talks, and FERC's promised new rulemaking.
Bruce W. Radford
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.
Interviews with software middlemen.
Bruce W. Radford
Interviews with software middlemen.
Lawrence Oliva
Partner, Utility Practice Group
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Why a standard design in each ISO is no guarantee of regional coordination.
Bruce W. Radford
By Marija Ilic and Leonard Hyman
Why a standard design in each ISO is no guarantee of regional coordination.
How do you complete an efficient transaction that requires the cooperation of two or more markets when each is operated independently of the other?
To manage congestion on the power grid, most traders would rather book a firm path than risk a loss on a financial hedge.
To manage congestion on the power grid, most traders would rather book a firm path than risk a loss on a financial hedge.
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