Utilities have little to show for the millions they pay in campaign contributions.
An analysis of the timing, location, and mix of new capacity additions that may be needed in the future.
Greater reliance on gas-fired power implies serious economic, technological, and national security risks.
A face-to-face interview with FERC Chairman Pat Wood III.
People for April 2004.
A digital grid to the home, secured via a local fiber-optic network, could position utilities to fix power and telecom together.
California anticipates changes in energy policy under its new governor.
Legal challenges continue for the undersea transmission line.
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.
Frontlines
Is FERC the rightful heir?
The possibility that energy legislation drafted last year won't pass in 2004 has created a power vacuum. Who now is czar of electric utility reliability? Language in the proposed bill would have answered that question. But when Congress demurred, did that imply an endorsement of the ?