Fortnightly Magazine - June 15 2003

Perspective

Social and political attitudes toward cheap power were a major obstacle to electricity liberalization in Poland; they also may be one in Russia.


Social and political attitudes toward cheap power were a major obstacle to electricity liberalization in Poland; they also may be one in Russia.

The Feb. 1, 2003, edition of Public Utilities Fortnightly contained a pair of articles (Competition Lost, and Superpower Opportunities) about utilities that invested abroad during the 1990s. The pairing of the articles leads to the question of what can be learned from the past to facilitate investments in future opportunities.

Benchmarks

Significant obstacles stand in the way of achieving cost savings that should accrue to market-based emissions trading policies.

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