Weak Underpinnings, and Wrong Conclusions
Work conducted by Management Consulting Services has consistently found a number of truths about co-op distribution service that counter Douglas Beresford's article on IPOs for rural co-ops.
Frontlines & Op-Ed
Bullish for Business
Forced consolidation of RTOs would set transmission owners free to go after profits.
Forced consolidation of RTOs would set transmission owners free to go after profits.
Izzbee, Izz it?
The Energy Industry Standards Board doesn't exist yet, but it's got regulators talking.
More than two years ago, I suggested in this column that regional independent system operators would likely supplant the regional reliability councils as the caretakers of electric system reliability. And that's still possible—if the ISOs move quickly to RTO status, and if the RTOs get cracking right away on adopting uniform business rules. But the FERC may get tired waiting for that to happen.
Taken to the Cleaners
Frontlines
FERC's California plan needs pressing, to fix blatant gaffes on NOx, demand bids, and megawatt laundering.
The Grid Is Dead
Gas pipelines compete against electric transmission lines. And the pipes are winning.
Years from now, we'll look back on the power crisis as the beginning of the end of electric transmission.
Frontlines
Region's fight over summer capacity reserves hints that all is not well.
Frontlines
How to price energy during a stage 3 alert?
Frontlines
Très Riches Heures
How to price energy during a stage 3 alert?
You know the painting. Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. You probably saw it first in Janson's "History of Art", in a college survey course.
Frontlines
The Power Exchange will hunt you down.
(1) the regulatory rate freeze imposed under the state's restructuring scheme,
(2) the state-imposed duty to serve that forced Edison to supply electricity to retail customers regardless of price, and
(3) the Jan. 4 order by the state public utility commission that Edison said barred it from obtaining funds to meet its payment obligations to the PX.
Transmission on Trial?
Not hardly. The Court will review open access, but the ratepayer is the real defendant.
Frontlines
Transmission on Trial?
Entergy's Grid Grab
Will tomorrow's transmission be privately funded, with the first-class seats reserved for investors?
The six o'clock news has locked its radar on California's power market meltdown, and rightly so. But that's no reason to overlook the nation's heartland, where a utility coming late to the game has set the pot boiling.