Law & Lawyers
Benchmarks
Is there a better way to increase shareholder wealth?
Benchmarks
News Digest
The California ISO offers a plan, but some fear that rules themselves are the problem.
News Digest
News Digest
The California ISO offers a plan, but some fear that rules themselves are the problem.
News Digest
Transmission & ISOs
Policing the Markets
The California ISO offers a plan, but some fear that rules themselves are the problem.
Perspective
An ode to the customer, the measure of all things.
News Analysis
With power markets now regional, the Pacific Northwest ponders responsibility for blackouts and outages.
News Analysis
Off Peak
There's nothing quite like a consumer scorned..<b> </b>
Off Peak
March 15, 2001
'I See Now I Was Naive'
There's nothing quite like a consumer scorned..
Excerpts from letters sent by private citizens to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and made a part of the official in RDocket No. EL00-95-000.
Transmission on Trial?
Not hardly. The Court will review open access, but the ratepayer is the real defendant.
Frontlines
Transmission on Trial?
The Choice Not to Buy: Energy $avings and Policy Alternatives for Demand Response
What California would have saved-in real dollar figures-plus a look at pilot programs from around the country.
1 Also cited as contributing factors are the lack of long-term contracting, operating problems in the ISO and power exchange (PX) markets, and suggestions that owners of generation took advantage of the supply shortage and the design of California's wholesale power markets to exercise market power to drive prices higher.
Utility Advertising After Deregulation
Is spending as flat as the numbers seem to show?
1 Neal, loc. cit.; also see Beth Snyder, "Online Newspapers Helps Electric Utilities Market," , Vol. 68, No. 46 (Nov. 17, 1997), p. 58.
2 Ann Chambers, "Co-Ops Launch National Brand," , Vol. 102, No. 5 (May 1998), pp. 1-3.
3 George Sladoje, "California, One Year Later: More Winners than Losers," , Vol. 37, No. 1 (May, 1999), p. 22.