News Digest
News Digest
Pacific Northwest
Money, Power and Trade: What You Never Knew About the Western Energy Crisis
Fortnightly
Fortnightly
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 Analysis
When California cries "wolf," will its neighbors cower like sheep?
1 ISO terminology is complex and often misleading. A Stage 1 emergency occurs when the ISO does not meet its own reserve criteria. Stage 2 occurs when it cannot meet a 5 percent reserve margin. A Stage 3 takes place when it cannot meet at 1.5 percent reserve margin. An ISO emergency can take place even when local resources are available-so long as they have not been bid into its daily reserve purchasing.
Price Spike Tsunami: How Market Power Soaked California
Last year saw no shift in fundamentals. Then why was the ISO so willing to be deceived?
News Digest
News Digest
Alliance Gas Pipeline: Early, Late, or Just in Time?
A story of big gambles, big assumptions, and spark spreads now turned upside down.
Frontlines
<b>Beware the transmission operator that is truly "independent." </b>
Frontlines
Price Cap Follies
East vs. West: Comparing Electric Markets in California and PJM
While neither is perfect, the former has done better than its critics would admit.