Technology Corridor
Will state budget shortfalls threaten tax credits and subsidies?
Green Generation Feels the Squeeze
Technology
Commission Watch
The case for participant-funded transmission.
Planned or Private?
Frontlines
Presenting a new look and new editorial content for 2003.
Fortnightly: A New Frontier
Presenting a new look and new editorial content for 2003.
In this Jan. 1, 2003, issue, Public Utilities Fortnightly magazine takes pause in this column from its energy industry commentary to tell readers about several important developments at the magazine.
Large-Scale Green Power: An Impossible Dream?
Chasing after windmills and photovoltaics could well be the stuff of fiction.
Chasing after windmills and photovoltaics could well be the stuff of fiction.
Wind and solar cells (photovoltaics or PVs) are two renewable energy technologies that many hope will eventually provide the United States with massive amounts of clean, sustainable electric power for the indefinite future. Indeed, it is often suggested or implied that the United States can look to a future where most, if not all electric power can be provided by wind and photovoltaics [1, 2].
IT Security: Who's Investing In What?
Regulatory and market forces put the pressure on information technology to perform.
Regulatory and market forces put the pressure on information technology to perform.
Technology isn't in the driver's seat at some energy companies, but it's not as if those companies have reverted to using typewriters, carbons and rotary dial phones. In fact, it's beyond dispute that information technology (IT), in particular, can improve business performance-and nothing is more important to energy companies right now. But with slashed budgets and collapsing credit ratings, how should energy companies spend their precious IT dollars?
Bridging the Carbon Gap: Fossil Fuel Use for the 21st Century
Coal gasification as a transition plan to build lead time to develop sustainable, climate-friendly energy technologies.
Coal gasification as a transition plan to build lead time to develop sustainable, climate-friendly energy technologies.
Editor's Note Several of the sources for this article and accompanying sidebars are referenced numerous times.
Perspective
Advanced grid technologies are needed to realize FERC's standard market vision.
It's the Grid, Stupid!
Let's Be More Positive About Natural Gas!
There will be ample U.S. natural gas supplies to support a 30 Tcf market by 2010.
There will be ample natural gas supplies for a 30 Tcf market by 2010.
People (June 1, 2002)
Former U.S. Senator Slade Gorton has joined the board of directors of E2I. The National Hydropower Association presented Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) with its Legislator of the Year award . The New York Power Authority honored Shalom Zelingher, director, and Misak Krikorian, senior engineer, of the research and technology development unit of NYPA. And others ...
The Great Canadian Gas Race
Northern gas rush proves timely for power generators.
America’s insatiable demand for clean burning power generated in newly minted natural gas-fired power plants has caused a massive Canada-wide hunt for new gas resources, and a search for how to get it across the border.