Frontlines
Merchant plants snub the market, using native load to create their own private rate base.
EPSA
Letter to the Editor (May 15, 2002)
EPSA exec rebukes McCullough's claims.
A response to the article "Revisiting California," April 1, 2002: If the issues confronting California’s ratepayers weren’t so important, it would be easy to say that Robert McCullough’s efforts are best published on April Fools Day.
RTOs: The Billion Dollar Advantage
ICF study shows the national benefits of RTOs are too large to be ignored.
Sixty billion dollars in benefits. Less than $6 billion in costs. In any business, those numbers mean just one thing: you've got a winner.
People (Jan 1, 2002)
El Paso Corp. announced that Britton White Jr. has retired as executive vice president and general counsel. He was appointed to this position after El Paso acquired Tenneco Energy in 1996. Peggy A. Heeg has been named as his replacement. Heeg previously served as senior vice president and deputy general counsel. She joined Tenneco Energy in 1990 and became vice president and associate general counsel for regulated pipelines for El Paso after the merger. El Paso also announced the retirement of David A. Arledge from its board of directors.
News Analysis
<br> IPPs and other stakeholders long have called for standards, but this time, the FERC just might oblige.
News Analysis
IPPs and other stakeholders long have called for standards, but this time, the FERC just might oblige.
"Certain transmission owners ... have impeded the interconnection process and, thereby, new generation construction."
"Many transmission providers also refuse to offer network transmission service to merchant generators ... ."