The Production Tax Credit: Getting More Credit Than It's Due?
State government may have done more for wind power than PTC ever did.
There are many other factors stimulating growth in U.S. wind power development that are more important than the PTC.
Law & Lawyers
Potential Exposure: The Long View on Credit Risk
Tools for measuring credit risk.
Taking a fresh look at issues surrounding industry credit risk.
Biting Pat Wood's Hand
FERC finds the states have teeth, too.
FERC Chairman Pat Wood ought to be commended for trying to extend a hand of cooperation to state PUCs. But certainly he must by now understand that the nature of the state regulator, as the nature of the wolf, is unchangeable.
A Brouhaha in Barnstable
No punches were pulled at a town meeting on wind power.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held a town meeting in Barnstable, Massachusetts—the hub of activity and controversy over a proposed offshore wind farm project on Cape Cod. For nearly three hours, citizens of the Cape spoke up, and spoke with feeling.
People (May 15, 2002)
Dr. Janice A. Beecher has been named director of the Institute of Pubic Utilities at Michigan State University. Calpine announced several promotions to its senior management team. Alliant Energy also announced several new appointments. And others ...
The Wind at His Back
Interview with Jim Gordon, president of Cape Wind Associates.
Jim Gordon knows energy. For the last 26 years, he's been an energy plant developer. He was the head of a New England-based power producer named Energy Management Inc., and now he's president of Cape Wind Associates. He's also an environmentalist. He believes in the benefits of clean energy, and his latest project-a 460 MW wind farm off the coast off Cape Cod is a testament to that. The wind farm, slated to go online sometime in 2005, is the first offshore wind farm proposed in the United States.
Letter to the Editor (May 15, 2002)
EPSA exec rebukes McCullough's claims.
A response to the article "Revisiting California," April 1, 2002: If the issues confronting California’s ratepayers weren’t so important, it would be easy to say that Robert McCullough’s efforts are best published on April Fools Day.
Energy Customers Focused on Bottom-Line
Public Utilities Fortnightly and POWERdat®
To control their energy budgets in this environment, corporate energy managers must quickly become familiar with markets in which they are inexperienced participants.
Backtracking in Georgia
The customer is always right.
Given all the flack it’s caught of late, it may not be too far off before Georgia’s esteemed deregulation program is saddled with the label of “fiasco” and “debacle.” The timing is strikingly similar to California, where that state’s electric restructuring experiment crumbled in the summer of 2000, two years and change after the flawed plan switched on.
Sempra Energy: Calif. Utility Prospers in State of Uncertainty
CEO Power Forum: Stephen Baum, Chairman, President, and CEO of Sempra Energy
“One lesson, of course, is you can’t raise prices too high, too fast. I think that’s clear. You get what I call the French Revolution syndrome.”