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Assuring Enough Generation: Whose Job and How to Do It

A California failed to fashion proper incentives. Now others may repeat that mistake.

1 "Load-serving entities" are firms that serve retail electricity customers. These firms include utilities and power marketers.

2 See L.D. Kirsch, "ISO Economics: How California Flubbed It on Transmission Pricing", Public Utilities Fortnightly, Oct. 15, 1998, p. 24.

3 See J.E. Bowring and R.E. Gramlich, "The Role of Capacity Obligations in a Restructured Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Electricity Market", Electricity Journal, November 2000, pp. 57-67.

Byline: 
Laurence D. Kirsch & Rajesh Rajaraman
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LNG Makes a Comeback

After two dormant decades, the gas that travels in liquid form draws renewed interest, spurred by demand, shortage, and technology.
 
Byline: 
Carl J. Levesque
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Off Peak

Boy Scouts in Wisconsin will save you from sticker shock.<b> </b>

Off Peak

April 1, 2001

"Read Your Bill, Ma'am?"

 

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News Analysis

But the standards board must surmount differences with electric brethren before repeating its gas industry success.

 

News Analysis

 



 

But the standards board must surmount differences with electric brethren before repeating its gas industry success.

Perhaps the Gas Industry Standards Board (GISB) wants to tackle electricity because it doesn't have much else to do anymore in the area of gas standards.

Byline: 
Carl J. Levesque
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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.

Byline: 
Bruce W. Radford
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