Spot-Market Clearing
Solving the electricity credit malaise.
Solving the electricity credit malaise.
Todd W. Bessemer and Francis X. Shields
Where Entergy leads, will Wal-Mart follow?
Richard Stavros
A forecast for California on Aug. 16, 2006
Gary L. Hunt and Richard Lauckhart
Exelon Chairman, President, and CEO John W. Rowe, on the proposed merger that would create the largest utility in the United States.
Richard Stavros
Electric M&A: The merger with PSE&G may herald a new industry structure, squarely at odds with regional markets.
Bruce W. Radford
A review of the ongoing evolution of market design.
Craig Hart
Data Mining and Warehousing: Many utilities have no ability to turn raw customer information into significant insights about their business.
Bill Barnett
Special Series Part 5: How to find "commercially reasonable" valuation in power contract terminations.
Contract termination should be easy. Consult the applicable master agreement, calculate the close-out amount, and send or receive a check. If only it were so. In this discussion, we investigate the guidance offered in the key electricity master agreements regarding the calculation of settlement amounts following an event of default and subsequent termination. We also illustrate what we perceive to be a "commercially reasonable" or "good faith" approach to determining settlement amounts.
Justin Harlow and Brett Friedman
Windpower is caught in a vicious cycle of Washington politics. Escaping the cycle will require visionary leadership in Congress and the utility industry.
Michael T. Burr