Transmission

Gas-Power Infrastructure: The Missing Link?

Presenting an option to solving electric transmission congestion.

Fixing electric transmission congestion has been dominating market design policy debates since the beginning of restructuring. Could the gas pipeline infrastructure offer a solution?
Byline: 

Ron Hrehor and Don Sytsma

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Concentrated Transmission Assets

Public Utilities Fortnightly and POWERdat®

Investment in transmission is likely to surge in the buying and selling of transmission assets and in the restructuring of the transmission business.
Byline: 

Douglas M. Logan

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Pat Packs a Punch

FERC's new chairman runs roughshod over a reeling industry.

By a vote of 3-1, FERC had crowned the Midwest Independent System Operator—MISO—as belle of the ball. In so doing, it scorned the proposed Alliance Regional Transmission Organization.
Byline: 

Bruce W. Radford

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Who’s Minding The Grid?

Some argue that gas pipelines might substitute … but … nothing will do away with the need for more transmission.

Our nation’s transmission infrastructure is increasingly unable to meet new demands for power created by rapidly changing electricity markets. Although reliability protocols ensure against catastrophic failure, there is ample evidence today that the grid is too congested.
Byline: 

Thomas R. Kuhn

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Waiting to Exhale

Courts Deliberate on the Fate of Order 2000: The transmission industry may have to wait even longer for a final decision on challenges to Order 2000 if FERC gets its way.

Though the D.C. Circuit Court could very well add to the delay in resolving some thorny issues of Order 2000, it appears that the court has essentially given the challengers a partial victory, even before a decision is rendered.
Byline: 

Jennifer Alvey

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The Rules of the Grid: Transmission Policy and Motives Gehind It

Making sense of RTO Week, the mediation talks, and FERC's promised new rulemaking.


 

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.

Byline: 
Bruce W. Radford
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Perspective

Regulators will have to decide who pays to upgrade the transmission system.


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Regulators will have to decide who pays to upgrade the transmission system.

Byline: 
Ruth K. Kretschmer and Kenneth E. Hundrieser
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