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Don't Rush the Seamstress: Second Thoughts on the Marriage of the Northeast Grids

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?

News Analysis

New England puts a price on electric reliability, but some say the charge looks more like a tax.
Bruce W. Radford

News Analysis



 

New England puts a price on electric reliability, but some say the charge looks more like a tax.

Does ICAP qualify as a true commercial product, traded on its own merit with a tangible value for customers?

Off Peak

Regulators count on price signals to force consumers to behave.
*Witnesses: U.S. Sen. Larry E. Craig (R.., Idaho); Raymond L. Gifford (chairman, Colo. Pub. Serv. Comm'n), Tony Schaefer (Chairman, New Mex. Pub. Reg. Comm'n), Roy Hemmingway (energy advisor for Oregon Governor John A. Kitzhhaber), William L. Massey (FERC), Linda K. Breathitt (FERC), Roger Hamilton (Oregon Pub. Util. Comm'n), Greg Keeley (speaker pro tem, Calif. Gen. Assembly), and Marsha H. Smith (Idaho Pub. Utils. Comm'n).

Off Peak

May 15, 2001

Now Do as You're Told

 

Regulators count on price signals to force consumers to behave.

Boise, Idaho: Tues. Apr. 10, 2001, 8 a.m.

News Digest

Docket No. EL01-47-000, Mar. 14, 2001 (F.E.R.C.).-L.A.B

 

News Digest


 

Frontlines

How to price energy during a stage 3 alert?
Bruce W. Radford

Frontlines

Très Riches Heures

 

How to price energy during a stage 3 alert?

You know the painting. Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. You probably saw it first in Janson's "History of Art", in a college survey course.

People

A Eulogy for RTOs—Interregional is Better

Thoughts on the eve of FERC's filing deadline for regional transmission organizations.
Marija Ilic

1 Ilic, Zaborszky, "Dynamics and Control of Large Electric Power Systems," John Wiley & Sons, 2000 (800 page text).

2 Ilic, Arce, Yoon, Fumagali, "Assessing Reliability Under Open Access," to be published in The Electricity Journal, December 2000.

3 For more information, please contact the author and/or the MIT Technology Licensing Office, making reference to MIT Case # 9062.

Pricing Reform for the Local Disco: Setting Rates That Will Support Distributed Generation

The Proposed Distribution Tariff
Shimon Awerbuch, Ph.D.

 

How to replace the bundled utility tariff with a rational design for access, throughput, and congestion.

Electric Retailing: When Will I See Profits?

Deregulation Abroad: Still Reaching Its Potential
Ahmad Faruqui

 

Wait for the "second wave," when new products help suppliers escape the trench warfare of pricing.

We Got Green?

<p>Not hardly. And now the FTC would leave consumers in the dark on some environmental claims.</p>

Bruce W. Radford

The green power mind-set is locked in the wholesale world, clueless about what it takes to perfect real consumer products.

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