Fortnightly Magazine - June 1 2002

Technological breakthroughs in distributed generation have not materialized as quickly as expected. Furthermore, manufacturers have continued to improve traditional generation technologies. So what role can DG play?

“I, personally, have always been, and I continue to be, for competition at every level. But I’m not spending a lot of personal time, energy, or political capital, pushing issues of retail choice at this point.”

“One lesson, of course, is you can’t raise prices too high, too fast. I think that’s clear. You get what I call the French Revolution syndrome.”

“We want to see the framework for investment in transmission clarified so that we can attract capital to de-bottleneck the transmission grid and continue to restructure the transmission segment so there’s no discrimination and we can freely flow electrons across the grid to meet our clients’ requirements.”