Frontlines: Sticker Shock
Electricity rates may be heading skyward sooner than we think.
Electricity rates may be heading skyward sooner than we think.
Richard Stavros
People for April 2004.
PUF
Letters for April 2004.
Jim Johnston
New England's experience may redefine the term.
Tom Wood, Ph.D.
A face-to-face interview with FERC Chairman Pat Wood III.
Richard Stavros
Solving the dilemma.
John Seelke
Some independent power producers failed to contain capital and O&M costs, adding to financial pressures.
Holt Bradshaw
Despite development challenges, LNG capacity is destined to play a bigger role in the U.S. energy mix.
Michael T. Burr
Greater reliance on gas-fired power implies serious economic, technological, and national security risks.
Greater reliance on gas-fired power implies serious economic, technological, and national security risks.
Over the past two decades, the United States has, by default, come to rely on an "In Gas We Trust" energy policy. Natural gas increasingly has been seen as the preferred fuel for all applications, nowhere more than in the electric generation sector. However, the greatly increased use of natural gas forecast for the electricity sector may not be economically or technically feasible, and it does not represent optimal or desired energy policy.
Roger H. Bezdek and Robert M. Wendling
An analysis of the timing, location, and mix of new capacity additions that may be needed in the future.
Stephen T. Marron & John H. Wile