An improved definition of heating and cooling degree-days for power markets.
Aaron Brasket
Power Measurement
An improved definition of heating and cooling degree-days for power markets.
Anyone who owns an air conditioner and pays an electric bill knows that weather drives demand for electricity, but quantifying the relationship between weather and electricity demand isn't easy. Was last winter severely cold? Winters are always cold. If it really was cold, exactly how cold was it?
Some want to cut costs, others to improve service.
Richard Stavros
Some want to cut costs, others to improve service.
Uncertain economic times have always moved companies to find ways to cut costs. Utilities and energy companies are no different. They have turned to automated meter reading (AMR) during the past years in increasing numbers.
But many technology experts disagree on strategy: should utilities go high-tech or low-tech on AMR?
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
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
The California ISO offers a plan, but some fear that rules themselves are the problem.
ISO Credit Requirements.
For the utility, wresting its assets from PUC control is the real point.
Bill Nesbit Pacific
For the utility, wresting its assets from PUC control is the real point.
Gas & Electric Co.'s 17-month-old proposal to divest its hydro assets via auction likely is dead, a casualty of California's ongoing energy market turmoil. Despite this reality, the utility's auction proposal remained active at the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) as of press time in mid-January, even as the governor and state legislature held emergency meetings amid rolling blackouts.
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