(August 2011) Economic consultant Michael Rosenzweig challenges Constantine Gonatas’s proposal for ensuring FERC’s demand response rulemaking achieves its objectives. Also, Juliet Shavit takes issue with Contributing Editor Steven Andersen’s characterization of utility customers as “crazy.”
Smart metering is coming of age. Is the utility world ready for it?
Some states, including Illinois, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Texas, have been considering smart-metering questions as part of rate cases and resource-planning discussions. Other states, such as Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio, and Virginia, have initiated EPACT Section 1252 inquiries separately from other proceedings. The tenor of the discussion also varies from state to state, with high-cost power states generally more attracted to AMI than low-cost states are.
FERC mulls rival plans at the last minute, while on the West Coast, California gets into the game.
FERC, the ISO, and many other parties had seen no reason for further debate over the need for a location-specific capacity market. By limiting debate, FERC had foreclosed a raft of competing ideas. When the moment finally arrived for the oral argument at FERC, attorneys and witnesses attempted valiantly in the precious few minutes allotted each speaker to flesh out new ideas, and the commissioners struggled as well to keep up. This highly unusual situation made for a helter-skelter hearing, with new topics seeming to come out of the woodwork.
How Einstein discovered relativity, locational pricing, and participant-funded transmission.
Bruce W. Radford
What a merchant transmission line could bring to the table.
Edward Krapels
Neptune and the Northeast
There's no getting around it—price caps aren't for everyone.
Off Peak
July 1, 2001
L.A. Loves a Loophole
There's no getting around itprice caps aren't for everyone.
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C.
OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL
MAY 25, 2001
With its own private power grid, Texas thinks it's got restructuring licked.
With its own private power grid, Texas thinks it's got restructuring licked.
State PUCs
Docket No. NOI-98-3, March 3, 2000 (Iowa Ut.Bd.)
Bruce W. Radford
But does anyone know the real price of power?
You've read the headlines from Maine - how regulators asked for bids for competitive electricity but got prices higher than the old regulated rate.
But it gets worse. The more open the market, the higher the bid.
Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro-Electric operate within ISO New England, which now is open for competition.
Anne S. Babineau, William E. Taylor, and Matthew M. Weisman
What the Supreme Court thinks about handicapping the incumbent to level the field for new players.
Regulators today sit on the horns of a dilemma: How far to level the field in the name of competition?
If regulators fear market power in the incumbent utility, and so impose restrictions on its activities and assets, they may impair its effectiveness and thus distort the very competition they attempt to foster.
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