Bush Energy Plan Takes the High Road
News Analysis
President Bush's national energy policy offers no relief for summer, giving Democrats a bone to pick.
Perspective
Alternative Energy: Synthetic Fuels Make a Move
The economics — and the environment — are now right to turn coal and coke into gas.
With rising power and gas prices, coal gasification in back in fashion, along with new approaches to cogeneration and combined heat and power.
IPOs for Rural Co-ops: Why and How to Set Up the Deal
Equity is the essential currency.
$15 billion in patronage capital lies fallow, locked up in member-owned cooperatives with no way to participate in equity markets. That’s how the S&Ls looked 20 years ago, before they saw the light.
Saving California with Distributed Generation
A crash program to use small, standby diesel generators to keep the lights on.
Fire up all the small, diesel-powered emergency generating units already installed on site in California. It would erase the power shortage, but it won’t happen without changing the way we think about unit dispatch.
Spread the Job of Cleaning the Air
The California Crisis: Another Take
We’ve been dumping the cost on utilities, but ground is shifting.
Perspective
The argument is clever but not really symmetrical.
1. the incumbent utility companies should not have been promised an opportunity to recover the costs that everybody thought would be stranded by deregulation (he obviously includes himself among the "soreheads" who opposed the idea, insisting that "these behemoths should be treated just like everyone else who made investments that didn't pan out");
Perspective
What's been missing - until now - are regional exchanges to provide access to networks.
Perspective
I wanted deregulation. But not if we can't do it right.
I wanted deregulation. But not if we can't do it right.
As an economist, I confess I failed to predict the disaster in California. But I wasn't the only one. Anybody who tells you differently is either lying, fooling himself, or guilty of Monday morning quarterbacking.
Perspective
Wall Street analysts favor the utilities whose leaders think like they do.
Perspective
An ode to the customer, the measure of all things.