FERC Docket ER00-3583, protest filed Sept. 22, 2000, letter order issued Oct. 5, 2000
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.
PUC Oversight: Panacea or New Problem?
Docket No. ER97-2353-000, Opinion No. 447, 92 FERC ¶61,169, Aug. 17, 2000
Some thoughts on the battle to measure electricity consumption in real time.
Bruce W. Radford
Frontlines
Meter Men?
Some thoughts on the battle to measure electricity consumption in real time.
How can something so simple as an electric meter bring governments, editors, and the utility industry to their knees?
San Diego Gas & Electric turns vendor heads with its plan to install real-time meters, but the company could face heat from regulators.
Bruce W. Radford
San Diego Gas & Electric turns vendor heads with its plan to install real-time meters, but the company could face heat from regulators.
This is a landmark event," says Bill Rush, a physicist at the Gas Technology Institute, and a gas industry expert on electric utility metering systems.
Off Peak
September 1, 2000
Wakeup Call in San Diego?
By Regina R. Johnson
The Proposed Distribution Tariff
Shimon Awerbuch, Ph.D.
How to replace the bundled utility tariff with a rational design for access, throughput, and congestion.
Transmission & ISOs
FERC Docket No. ER97-1523-040, filed April 18, 2000.
Bruce W. Radford
Some in California say they will pay double - once to the ISO, then again to the IOU.
What if power prices fall but the savings get eaten up by higher transmission rates? Let's say we unbundle the wires, but end up creating just another layer of costs? We pay the independent system operator (ISO) to run the grid, but the investor-owned utility (IOU) still owns the wires. It has its own costs to recover. So now we pay two bills, right?
The issue is troublesome for California's electric utilities and a quagmire for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. In a new tariff it filed on Nov.
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