Law & Lawyers

California's Power Crisis: Catalyst for National Reform?

The challenge for Congress, FERC, and the new administration.

[T]he Commission believes that real rate relief for California electricity consumers will be fully realized in the State when sufficient new generation and transmission resources can be attracted and built and better demand-side management responses can be prompted. Only competitive markets will do these things. We believe it would be a mistake to revert to the kind of rate regulation that contributed to the decline in investment that clouds California's energy future today.

Frontlines

Why power prices may have hit a new plateau, and what it all means.

Frontlines

$$$/MWH???

 

 

News Analysis

The lawyers debated over ozone and soot, but the markets saw NO<sub>x</sub> as the "smoking gun."

 

News Analysis

 



 

Mail

A report titled "NY Cash Infusion," appearing in the "News Digest, Transmission & ISOs" pages of the Nov. 1, 2000 edition of , could leave readers with the erroneous impression that the NYISO [New York Independent System Operator] required emergency action to pay its bills. This would be grossly inaccurate.

News Digest

 

News Digest


 

FERC's Merger Policy: Still Founded on Market Power

But the fly in the ointment is computer modeling, where no one yet agrees on how to mirror the real world.


 

But the fly in the ointment is computer modeling, where no one yet agrees on how to mirror the real world.

A promise made is a promise kept, even in the halls of government.