Distributed Generation: Doomed by Deployment Details?
The industry makes strides, but messy issues like air quality and building codes could be showstoppers.
Service to the 9's? Power Quality in a Tech-Wreck World
Why it's just as important for the old economy.
Why it's just as important for the old economy.
Mention "power quality" and the mind conjures up visions of tech hotels stuffed with Internet servers running 24/7, retrofitted into inner city industrial warehouses-buildings sturdy enough to forgive the heavy installation of custom power supply equipment and racks of batteries. Or perhaps Silicon Valley.
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.
People
News Digest
Dynegy's David Francis, vice president for western power trading, testified on Dec. 21 on why he thought the ISO was bending the rules:
News Digest
News Digest
Dynegy says California ISO grants sweetheart deals to out-of-state plants.
News Analysis
When California cries "wolf," will its neighbors cower like sheep?
1 ISO terminology is complex and often misleading. A Stage 1 emergency occurs when the ISO does not meet its own reserve criteria. Stage 2 occurs when it cannot meet a 5 percent reserve margin. A Stage 3 takes place when it cannot meet at 1.5 percent reserve margin. An ISO emergency can take place even when local resources are available-so long as they have not been bid into its daily reserve purchasing.
Off Peak
<b>California Sen. Steve Peace says it wasn't him, and he has the video to prove it. </b>
Off Peak
February 1, 2001
Who Lost Deregulation?
RTOs in Depth: Size, Scope, and Operation
Electric industry views on GridFlorida, GridSouth, SE Trans, and RTO West.
Commentary - The RTO Drafts: Major Revisions Needed
Seven suggested plots, but no bestseller.