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Reversing the Gas Crisis: The Methane Hydrate Solution

Commercialization of methane recovery from coastal deposits of methane hydrates could head off an impending gas shortage.

More than half of the Earth’s organic carbon is in the form of methane hydrates—also known as the ice that burns. U.S. potential is at least 100,000 Tcf., but commercial production has not been achieved.

Frontlines

The blackout could doom deregulation, but why treat reliability and reform as either-or?

Frontlines

The blackout could doom deregulation, but why treat reliability and reform as either-or?

Driving west near Cleveland on the Ohio Turnpike back in August, a few days after the big blackout, I saw what looked like a small helicopter hovering up ahead, about 25 feet from the top of a transmission tower.

Was this a prank? Had terrorists struck? Or was it the local TV news station, just trying to get a closer look?

Benchmarks

Significant obstacles stand in the way of achieving cost savings that should accrue to market-based emissions trading policies.

Frontlines

How Einstein discovered relativity, locational pricing, and participant-funded transmission.

Changing the Fuel Mix: Time for a Nuclear Rescue?

Gas-fired power is king today, but fuel diversity needs and new technologies may open the door for nuclear and coal.

By Lori A. Burkhart

Gas-fired power is king today, but fuel diversity needs and new technologies may open the door for nuclear and coal.

The nation's demand for electricity is expected to grow by over 40 percent in the next 20 years, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Meeting that need will require a great number of new generating plants. The burning question is, what will fuel these new plants?

Gas Turbinemania: The Merchant Power Plant Shake Out

Why it happened? Who lost in the bust? Who will survive to build another turbine?

Some merchant generation developers never saw the generation glut coming. Presenting the winners and losers of the latest cycle of boom, bubble, and collapse in the merchant generation industry.

The V2G Concept: A New Model for Power?

Connecting utility infrastructure and automobiles.

Blurring the line between transportation and utility infrastructure, new fuel cell and electric vehicles being proposed could be a new power source for electric utilities.

Natural Gas Hedging: A Primer for Utilities and Regulators

What commissions need to learn. <br>What LDCs should already know.

Natural Gas Hedging: A Primer for Utilities and Regulators



 

What commissions need to learn.
What LDCs should already know.

The facts are now in. If utilities had hedged their natural gas purchases during the 1990s, they could have earned windfalls for those they serve, given the wild price gyrations of the past decade (). Yet few if any households or businesses saw any windfall, because few utilities were engaged in futures and other derivatives markets.

Frontlines

FERC's California plan needs pressing, to fix blatant gaffes on NO<sub>x</sub>, demand bids, and megawatt laundering.

Frontlines

Taken to the Cleaners

 

 

Off Peak

From Malibu to Beverly Hills, they all want a personal generator.<b> </b>

Off Peak

June 15, 2001

Forget Black Gold or Texas Tea ...