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Northeast Power Markets: The Argument for a Unified Grid

How different regional protocols distort power prices and flows among New York, New England, and PJM.

Introduction: How an efficient re-dispatch of transactions between ISOs would save close to a half billion dollars each year, arguing for regional consolidation, as urged by the FERC.

Byline: 
Kevin Monagle
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Larceny Debunked

Reliant comes clean on profits, says California picked its own pocket.

While the media made hay chiding power producers for gouging consumers for electricity generated from gas-fired turbines, California' s system of a single market-clearing price for electricity was "delivering immense windfalls" to utilities who had no need to buy gas at all to run the power plants they still owned (or controlled through affiliates).
Byline: 

PUF

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ICAP: A Make-Believe Market?

New England puts a price on electric reliability, but some say the charge looks more like a tax.

Does ICAP qualify as a true commercial product, traded on its own merit with a tangible value for customers?
Byline: 

Bruce W. Radford

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Wind Power, Poised for Take Off?

A survey of projects and economics.

An industry advocate touts the recent rise of projects in the pipeline and forsees remarkable growth in wind farms over the next twenty years — more, perhaps, than others would concede.
Byline: 

Christine Real de Azua

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