Tag: Utilities

Introduction What is now known as the “California experiment in electricity deregulation” has sent shock waves around the world, particularly to other ... Read Article

The Power Grid: Platform for Competition The first step toward ensuring a healthy power sector is a simple affirmation: the grid plays ... Read Article

There are many disturbing practices and beliefs prevalent in the traditional electric and gas energy industry, but few more disturbing than the ... Read Article

Back in the good old days before restructuring, I used a simple formula to pick electric utility stocks for the elderly, blue-haired ... Read Article

Electric system reliability is a political necessity. The reverberations from California’s rolling black-outs have stalled the trend towards generation market deregulation, which ... Read Article

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to automate some of your household chores, and leave home knowing that everything is safe and secure? With ... Read Article

Since the FERC’s July 2001 order to form four large RTOs, chaos has returned to the short-term planning and management of the ... Read Article

The Broken “E” Bubble Being both a student of history and a participant in the recent events in California, it’s with some ... Read Article

Background The unbundling of the traditional energy company in the face of industry restructuring has exposed to competition areas traditionally overlooked by ... Read Article

The Computer-Based Laboratory From Experiment to Application Electronic trading (now commonly known as e-commerce) in the experimental laboratory began at the University ... Read Article

To the rescue, hundreds of new generation facilities were announced across the country. Plans to build our way to energy security were ... Read Article

Deregulation … mergers … spin-offs … The changes taking place in the energy industry, including the reality that competition will increase to ... Read Article

Introduction From the dawn of electricity deregulation in the United States until mid-1998, a pessimistic cloud hung over the nuclear power industry. ... Read Article

In the summer and fall of 2001, PJM Interconnection President and CEO Phillip G. Harris testified three times about electric system reliability ... Read Article

Forces of Change in the Energy Industry The networked information economy and competition represent two of the greatest drivers of change in ... Read Article