Texas wins raves from the big players for its rules and systems, but the small consumer, as in other states, sees little reason to switch.
Mark Hand is senior editor of Public Utilities Fortnightly.
Texas wins raves from the big players for its rules and systems, but the small consumer, as in other states, sees little reason to switch.
Six months into the opening of the restructured Texas electric market, industry players are generally pleased with the results, but the jury is still out, as the state's vaunted system design has shown some cracks, and consumers still see little reason to switch their energy supplier.
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.
Dynegy says California ISO grants sweetheart deals to out-of-state plants.
Bruce W. Radford
Dynegy's David Francis, vice president for western power trading, testified on Dec. 21 on why he thought the ISO was bending the rules:
Citizens' Utility Ratepayer Bd. v. Kansas Corp. Comm'n, Nos. 85,750 et al., Dec. 15, 2000 (Kan.App.)
Case No. 99-1212- EL-ETP, Sept. 13, 2000 (Ohio P.U.C.)
News Digest
Restructuring Plans. The Ohio PUC denied rehearing of its restructuring order for FirstEnergy issued two months earlier, rejecting arguments by all petitioners-utility, marketers, and consumer watchdog groups.
Charles W. Thurston
Both look overseas for project developers, but some U.S. firms worry they'll miss out.
Bruce W. Radford
Frontlines
T+D Out, G+D In
Why not keep the power plants and sell off transmission instead?
Those new merchant gen plants must wait in line to get on the grid, and they don't like it.
Bruce W. Radford
STATE PUCS
Distributed Generation. In December and January the Illinois commission took comments from utilities, marketers, manufacturers, and trade and advocacy groups on how to develop policy on distributed generation.
* Rulemaking Strategy. Enron has urged the state to proceed in a fashion similar to the California PUC's
two-track investigation. It asked for two separate rulemakings on (1) interconnection standards for DG installations of 50 megawatts or less, and (2) rate design and operational issues.
* Unit Size Limits.
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