Stringing Transmission Lines, Untangling Red Tape
Centralized federal oversight sounds good, but what about squabbles between separate federal agencies?
Pacific Gas & Electric
Taken to the Cleaners
Frontlines
FERC's California plan needs pressing, to fix blatant gaffes on NOx, demand bids, and megawatt laundering.
The Grid Is Dead
Gas pipelines compete against electric transmission lines. And the pipes are winning.
Years from now, we'll look back on the power crisis as the beginning of the end of electric transmission.
California's Power Gamble: Long-Term Contracts, Locked-In Risk
High profit potential will attract new power plants, forcing prices down and stranding the state's long-term electricity purchases.
High profit potential will attract new power plants, forcing prices down and stranding the state's long-term electricity purchases.
Let's consider three questions crucial to California's energy crisis and its plans for solution.
Money, Power and Trade: What You Never Knew About the Western Energy Crisis
Fortnightly
Fortnightly
News Digest
News Digest
News Analysis
With power markets now regional, the Pacific Northwest ponders responsibility for blackouts and outages.
News Analysis
News Digest
The California ISO offers a plan, but some fear that rules themselves are the problem.
News Digest
News Digest
News Digest
PUCs have yet to factor in higher risk for deregulation
PUCs have yet to factor in higher risk for deregulation.
(December, 2000) Here are the results of our annual survey of authorized rates of return on common equity (ROE) for state-regulated energy utilities. This year's survey covers ROE determinations by state regulatory commissions during the period Oct. 1, 1999 through Sept. 30, 2000.