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FERC Revises Market-Based Rate Procedures

Order 816 indicates the commission is scrutinizing the underlying calculations of market power analyses.

This revision could have significant impact on market power analyses of certain franchised utilities and affiliated MBR entities.
Byline: 

Mark C. Williams and Eric Korman

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Life in the Transco Age

The competitive transmission genie is out of the bottle.

FERC Orders 890 and 1000 have opened the doors to independent transcos, heralding an era of innovation to solve reliability and capacity problems.
Byline: 

Elliot Roseman, Ken Collison, and Kiran Kumaraswamy

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Securitization of Uneconomic Costs: Whom Does It Secure?

Touted as a panacea for stranded costs, securitization would forever shield rates from market scrutiny.

We consumers display an amazing talent to squander the fruits of our labor on the whim of the moment. Examples might include bungee jumping, vanity license plates or pet rocks. Or just about anything you might find in a magazine stuffed in the back of an airline seat.

Now make way for electric utility restructuring, where the latest fashion calls for securitization of uneconomic costs.

Byline: 
Kenneth Rose
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