A new watchword for the industry and its regulators.
Michael T. Burr, Editor-in-Chief
If the concept of resilience—including cyber and physical security—had been baked into the industry’s culture from the beginning, the energy grid might look a lot different from what it does today.
Electric M&A:
Bruce W. Radford
Commission Watch
Electric M&A:
The merger with PSE&G may herald a new industry structure, squarely at odds with regional markets.
Call it the merger that broke the bank.
The marriage between Exelon and PSEG, owner of the utility Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G), formally proposed in February in papers filed at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), would create the largest electric utility in the United States.
What everybody missed in setting up the regional grids.
Bruce W. Radford
Commission Watch
What everybody missed in setting up the regional grids.
While the electric utility industry has largely agreed on what elements to include in a standard market design (SMD) to govern wholesale power trading in a given region, recent experience shows that the regulators from time to time have overlooked a number of things.
For The 21st Century
Richard Stavros
For The 21st Century
Interviews by
So it begins again. After several financially tumultuous years, executives at many of the nation's top utilities can once again look to the horizon and ask the growth question worthy of a Caesar: "What worlds to conquer?"
Utility executives are emboldened by bulging free cash flows, improved credit quality, lower operations and maintenance costs, favorable regulatory treatment, growing service territories, and increasing demand for power.
On the virtues and vices of ICAP, ACAP, FTRs, hubs, flowgates, DAMs, and gaming.
Bruce W. Radford
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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.
What a merchant transmission line could bring to the table.
Edward Krapels
Neptune and the Northeast
Electric Reliability
Case No. 2000-095, May 15, 2000 (Ky.P.S.C.).
Bruce W. Radford
Frontlines
ISO Meltdown?
Some wanted to shut down New York's power markets. Then cooler heads prevailed.
Carl J. Levesque, Lori A. Burkhart, Phillip S. Cross and Beth Lewis
Studies & Reports
Year 2000 Readiness. On Jan. 11 the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) predicted a minimal effect on electric system operations from Y2K software problems. The Department of Energy, which had asked NERC to run the electric industry assessment, added that 98 percent of U.S.
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