The Energy Tech Chronicles: Will Bust Turn to Boom?
Overcoming many obstacles, energy technology continues to have potential.
PJM Interconnection
The Aftermath of Alliance
What can we learn from its failure?
What does its downfall mean for the industry?
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News Analysis
East Coast prices bear an eerie resemblance to California of last spring, but pay no mind, say experts.
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News Analysis
<br> And in Texas, all customer information flows through ERCOT.
News Analysis
And in Texas, all customer information flows through ERCOT.
Texas thinks it has the right formula for retail choice.
When queried on the wisdom of its restructuring plan relative to California's restructuring woes, Texas likes to point to the new generation capacity coming online, and a supply-demand balance much more favorable than California's.
California's Transmission Takeover: Avoiding a Showdown at the FERC
And in Texas, all customer information flows through ERCOT.
News Analysis
And in Texas, all customer information flows through ERCOT.
Texas thinks it has the right formula for retail choice.
The Choice Not to Buy: Energy $avings and Policy Alternatives for Demand Response
What California would have saved-in real dollar figures-plus a look at pilot programs from around the country.
1 Also cited as contributing factors are the lack of long-term contracting, operating problems in the ISO and power exchange (PX) markets, and suggestions that owners of generation took advantage of the supply shortage and the design of California's wholesale power markets to exercise market power to drive prices higher.
News Digest
Dynegy's David Francis, vice president for western power trading, testified on Dec. 21 on why he thought the ISO was bending the rules:
News Digest
News Digest
News Digest