Financial data raises doubts about whether deregulation benefits outweigh costs.
Conservation programs, plus an erosion in domestic manufacturing, will lead to a falloff in gas demand.
A holistic, new approach to cost/benefit analysis.
The still-fresh memories of last year's Northeast blackout coupled with rising congestion nationwide have increased awareness of the electric transmission investment shortfall in the United States. Such investment, in the right locations, would have a highly positive benefit-cost ratio. But how much should be spent?
Russia resurrects the Kyoto Protocol and the prospect of either mandatory CO2 emissions cuts for U.S. utilities, or the start of a global trade war.
Except for local reinforcements and new generation interconnections, few transmission construction proposals are moving forward.
Frontlines
The U.S. faces a near doubling of population this century. Will there be enough power for the people?
On this the 75th anniversary of its publication, -a journal that has sought out the truth through its investigation and understanding, been a place for knowledge and scholarship, and been a medium for intellectual discourse within the energy industry-looks out to the future.
In 2004, the quintessential question remains what it was 75 years ago: How will the energy industry meet the demands of tomorrow?
Three ways to value nuclear power plants for buyers and sellers.
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.
New England's experience may redefine the term.