Commission
Off Peak
Off Peak
July 1, 2000
Managed Expectations
By Regina R. Johnson
Should PUCs teach customers that the market doesn't want them?
You know the flight of suppliers from a deregulated market is having an impact when surviving marketers issue press releases to let customers know they're still in the game.
Frontlines
Frontlines
T+D Out, G+D In
Why not keep the power plants and sell off transmission instead?
Redundant Restructuring: How the Dual-Retailer Model Makes Electric Markets Too Complex
A call for utilities to leave the marketing business.
Many of us on the front lines can identify with Stanley Klein's observation that, in terms of its implementation, the restructuring of the electric power industry is "fundamentally an information technology event."1
Pricing Reform for the Local Disco: Setting Rates That Will Support Distributed Generation
How to replace the bundled utility tariff with a rational design for access, throughput, and congestion.
Powerline Telecommunications: Mission Impossible?
PLT could allow energy companies to provide Internet, voice, and data via the grid, but technological hurdles and fierce competition remain obstacles.
News Analysis
News Analysis
NYPA's Nuke Auction: More at Stake Than Price?
Perspective
News Digest
News Digest
Frontlines
Frontlines
ISO Meltdown?
Some wanted to shut down New York's power markets. Then cooler heads prevailed.