A new FERC decision veers away from congressional intent not to burden intrastate pipelines with interstate policies.
How IT can allow utilities to invest in customers — and even improve returns — without breaking the bank.
Smaller systems aren't cost-effective.
Solving the dilemma.
A face-to-face interview with FERC Chairman Pat Wood III.
Revisiting performance-based rates with endogenous market designs.
A Risky Business Utilities wrestle with how much to charge for their product.
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:
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.
FERC's AEP ruling begs the question: Can the feds bypass states that block transmission reform?