Utilities are absorbing distressed IPPs, and raising alarm bells in the process.
Can economies of scale make the industry more stable?
California anticipates changes in energy policy under its new governor.
Wisconsinites don't fear 'Day 2.' But let's get the grid rights right.
People for March 2004.
Do-nothing regulators scare off investment, raising prospects for yet another large-scale power failure.
Legal challenges continue for the undersea transmission line.
Technology Corridor
Utilities are finding strategic benefits in demand-based metering technologies.
It's been years since utilities regarded customers as mere check-writing extensions of their meters. In fact, utilities' information technology focus during the past decade has centered on gaining greater control over customer information. The objective: Focus on-and fill-customer needs. The results are everywhere:
Business & Money
Experts debate whether KKR's leveraged buyout of UniSource Energy is right for the industry.
"From a public policy standpoint, should a utility that provides a vital public good be owned by a private group that gains ownership by taking on a high degree of debt (risk)?"
Perspective
Two Cato analysts suggest a return to the past-vertical integration, but now with no state regulators.
The defeat of the energy bill in the Senate last year has thrown electricity restructuring back on its heels. There clearly is no consensus among politicians or academics regarding how this industry ought to be organized or how it might best be regulated. Finding our way out of this morass requires a reconsideration of how we got to this dismal point in our regulatory journey.