CO2 Does Not Pollute: But Kyoto's Demise Won't End Debate
A gas industry leader says Bush got it right, yet admits the worth of carbon abatement.
Fortnightly Magazine - May 15 2001
California's Transmission Takeover: Avoiding a Showdown at the FERC
And in Texas, all customer information flows through ERCOT.
News Analysis
And in Texas, all customer information flows through ERCOT.
Texas thinks it has the right formula for retail choice.
Byline:
Carl J. Levesque
California's Power Gamble: Long-Term Contracts, Locked-In Risk
High profit potential will attract new power plants, forcing prices down and stranding the state's long-term electricity purchases.
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.
Byline:
Michael Schmidt
Frontlines
Region's fight over summer capacity reserves hints that all is not well.
Byline:
Bruce W. Radford
Benchmarks
Benchmarks
Byline:
Andria Jacob
News Digest
News Digest
Byline:
Capacity Incentive.
Perspective
What's been missing - until now - are regional exchanges to provide access to networks.
Byline:
Alexander Muse
News Analysis
<br> And in Texas, all customer information flows through ERCOT.
News Analysis
And in Texas, all customer information flows through ERCOT.
Texas thinks it has the right formula for retail choice.
When queried on the wisdom of its restructuring plan relative to California's restructuring woes, Texas likes to point to the new generation capacity coming online, and a supply-demand balance much more favorable than California's.
Byline:
Carl J. Levesque
Off Peak
Regulators count on price signals to force consumers to behave.<b> </b>
Off Peak
May 15, 2001
Now Do as You're Told
Regulators count on price signals to force consumers to behave.
Boise, Idaho: Tues. Apr. 10, 2001, 8 a.m.
Byline:
*Witnesses: U.S. Sen. Larry E. Craig (R.., Idaho); Raymond L. Gifford (chairman, Colo. Pub. Serv. Comm'n), Tony Schaefer (Chairman, New Mex. Pub. Reg. Comm'n), Roy Hemmingway (energy advisor for Oregon Governor John A. Kitzhhaber), William L. Massey (FERC), Linda K. Breathitt (FERC), Roger Hamilton (Oregon Pub. Util. Comm'n), Greg Keeley (speaker pro tem, Calif. Gen. Assembly), and Marsha H. Smith (Idaho Pub. Utils. Comm'n).