Has the electric industry got lawmakers in its back pocket, or are charges of bias just smoke?
Department of Energy
Pricing Reform for the Local Disco: Setting Rates That Will Support Distributed Generation
<b>The Proposed Distribution Tariff </b>
How to replace the bundled utility tariff with a rational design for access, throughput, and congestion.
Powerline Telecommunications: Mission Impossible?
PLT: History of Developments and Debacles
PLT could allow energy companies to provide Internet, voice, and data via the grid, but technological hurdles and fierce competition remain obstacles.
Mergers and the Public Interest: Saving the Savings for the Poorest Customers
How Colorado's settlement in the Xcel merger builds a case for treating needy ratepayers as a separate class entitled to merger benefits.
News Digest
Mergers & Acquisitions
News Digest
News Analysis
A Twenty-Fold Increase?
Former coal lobbyist Glenn Schleede plays Don Quixote, crusading against the DOE's 20-year initiative to boost investment in windmills.
News Digest
State PUCs
News Digest
Monopoly Power After Reform? A Time for Soul-Searching
The Present Laws Are Unequipped
Why the DOE's recent report suggests we need new antitrust rules for "deregulated" utility markets.
News Analysis
Appliance Efficiency: Does the Fuel Cycle Make a Difference?
Off Peak
Et Tu, Mexico?
A consultant questions whether our trade partner's role in organizing cutbacks in world oil production is consistent with NAFTA obligations.