Distributed Generation: Doomed by Deployment Details?
The industry makes strides, but messy issues like air quality and building codes could be showstoppers.
Law & Lawyers
Surviving and Thriving in the RTO Revolution
How to design tariffs to improve reliability and attract merchant generation.
1 A representation of a generic interconnection, with thermal, hydro, and nuclear generation sharing a grid with a winter peaking load.
2 , 93 FERC 61,294, Dec. 15, 2000.
3 For a survey of methods, see J.W. Marangon Lima "Allocation of Transmission Fixed Charges: An Overview,", Vol. 11, No. 3, 1996.
Was Gas to Blame? Exploring the Cause of California's High Prices
Basis exploded, but so did heat rates and NO<sub>x </sub>credits.
1 "Staff Report to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Western Markets and the Causes of the Summer 2000 Price Abnormalities," Nov. 1, 2000. Available on FERC website, www.ferc.gov. Hereinafter cited as Ferc Staff Report on California.
2 Source: Energy Security Analysis Inc. power databases using EIA form F900 and F759 data.
Off Peak
California high school students put their education to work.<b> </b>
Off Peak
February 15, 2001
Deregulation 101
California high school students put their education to work.
Jan. 11, 2001
Dear Secretary of Energy Richardson:
The Car of His Dreams
Amory Lovins says gas prices won't stick, but even if they do, he's still stuck on his Hypercar.
Amory Lovins says gas prices won't stick, but even if they do, he's still stuck on his Hypercar.
This just inif you can believe Amory Lovins, who has the news posted on the network of Web sites sponsored by his Rocky Mountain Institute.
From Fuel Cells to a Hydrogen-based Economy
How vehicle design is crucial to a new energy infrastructure.
1 For example, a 1992 A.D. Little study estimated that a from-scratch bulk hydrogen supply infrastructure sufficient for 25 million cars would require about $95 billion of investment, or $3,800 per car. This antiquated result is still being quoted, e.g. in the Epyx article in the December 1998 (Derby 1998).
2 e.g., Lomax et al. 1997.
New Analysis
The ISO forges ahead, with or without its members.
News Analysis
Benchmarks
Customer-side electricity demand reduction could stem rising power prices.
Jules Verne's Grid?
With undersea cable linking Canada to Manhattan, Project Neptune could remake the transmission biz.
With undersea cable linking Canada to Manhattan, Project Neptune could remake the transmission biz.