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.
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Does ICAP qualify as a true commercial product, traded on its own merit with a tangible value for customers?
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The city utility in Vernon, California thought it had bought plenty of power, but then got blacked out anyway.
City Administrator Bruce V. Malkenhorst, of Vernon, California, joined with his city utility director Kenneth J. DeDario, and exchanged a series of letters with Terry Winter, president and CEO of the California Independent System Operator, and others, on the subject of rolling blackouts.
Off Peak
June 1, 2001
Dear ISO: Why Me?
The city utility in Vernon, California thought it had bought plenty of power, but then got blacked out anyway.

March 19, 2001
Dear Mr. Winter:
High profit potential will attract new power plants, forcing prices down and stranding the state's long-term electricity purchases.
Michael Schmidt
High profit potential will attract new power plants, forcing prices down and stranding the state's long-term electricity purchases.
Let's consider three questions crucial to California's energy crisis and its plans for solution.
Fortnightly
S. A. Van Vactor and F. H. Pickel
Docket No. EL01-47-000, Mar. 14, 2001 (F.E.R.C.).-L.A.B
FERC Docket No. EL01-38-000, filed Feb. 14, 2001
There's nothing quite like a consumer scorned..
Off Peak
March 15, 2001
'I See Now I Was Naive'
There's nothing quite like a consumer scorned..

Excerpts from letters sent by private citizens to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and made a part of the official in RDocket No. EL00-95-000.
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