Compassionate Competition?
With its own private power grid, Texas thinks it's got restructuring licked.
With its own private power grid, Texas thinks it's got restructuring licked.
Frontlines & Op-Ed
Let's Get Physical
To manage congestion on the power grid, most traders would rather book a firm path than risk a loss on a financial hedge.
To manage congestion on the power grid, most traders would rather book a firm path than risk a loss on a financial hedge.
Key to the Citygate
Have gas prices fallen victim to speculation?
On Thursday, Dec. 8, as natural gas hit $40 at the citygate for Southern California (prices hit $60 that Friday), I found myself in Colonial Williamsburg, a guest of Michigan State University's Institute of Public Utilities, at the group's annual conference, watching a panel of industry experts try in vain to explain what was happening.
Frontlines
Why power prices may have hit a new plateau, and what it all means.
Frontlines
$$$/MWH???
Frontlines
Frontlines
Battle of Dunkirk
Utilities rush to save their last tenuous hold over the power plants they so smugly sold off.
Frontlines
Frontlines
Federalism At Work
Excerpts from the field hearing conducted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on wholesale power markets in California.
San Diego, California, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2000, 9 a.m.
Frontlines
DC power makes a comeback in this vision of neighborhood grids and fuel cells on wheels.
Frontlines
Engineers Have Their Day
Frontlines
Some thoughts on the battle to measure electricity consumption in real time.
Frontlines
Meter Men?
Some thoughts on the battle to measure electricity consumption in real time.
How can something so simple as an electric meter bring governments, editors, and the utility industry to their knees?
Frontlines
<b>California pays the bill, but who gets the blame- the feds or the fundamentals?</b>
Frontlines
Prices Hit a Pique
California pays the bill, but who gets the blame- the feds or the fundamentals?
What did they know and when did they know it? That's what California consumers are asking utility regulators and system operators, now that the heat of summer has made a shambles of the state's vision of electricity competition.
Frontlines
<b>Beware the transmission operator that is truly "independent." </b>
Frontlines
Price Cap Follies