Strange bedfellows may provide a new supply option.
Two Cato analysts suggest a return to the past-vertical integration, but now with no state regulators.
A number of factors point to expanded nuclear generation. But when?
The industry requires new analytical tools to incorporate the realities of today's higher risk operating and investment environment into the equity allowance process.
Utilities that are short on capacity and operate in a stable regulatory environment may be able to extract value from interruptible rates.
FERC should consider a two-part tariff to boost transmission investment.
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How effective are federal energy efficiency regulations?
New buildings must meet federal energy efficiency guidelines, which have historically used site-energy measurements as the metric for building energy consumption. Using site-energy measurements, though, ends up favoring the use of electricity from the grid, rather than using electricity produced on site.
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Outdated "wisdom" wastes the nation's electricity infrastructure. Distributed CH&P is the answer.
The use of wasted heat-which now comprises two-thirds of the energy value of the fuels used in generat-ing electricity in this country-may be the most important benefit from using more distributed generation.
Chicken Little has cornered the market on gas price doom and gloom, but the data is inconsistent on whether high gas prices are here to stay.
A near-universal consensus of alarm appears to be emerging concerning North American gas supply adequacy. The steady march upward of spot gas prices and NYMEX futures over the past year confirms this coalescence of market sentiment. Way back in June 2002, you could still buy Rocky Mountain wellhead production for about $1.25/MMBtu, although Eastern U.S. markets had already exceeded $3.00/MMBtu.