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- A critical assessment of electricity and natural gas deregulation
- Electric and natural gas utilities are an integral part of a nation's infrastructure. When performing properly they constitute a platform that provides a necessary service for all sectors of society, thereby assuring conditions for economic growth and an improved quality of life. As society advances, dependence upon these energy utilities...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Regulation of oil and natural gas pipelines: a legal primer for the layman
- Oil and natural gas pipelines traverse the United States through a network of underground pipelines that transport product throughout the lower 48 states and Alaska. Despite so many miles of pipeline carrying so much product, U.S. Department of Transportation DOT reports that pipelines are the safest mode of transportation...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Beacon Power Adds Former Utility Commission Chairwoman Judith Judson to Management Team
- Regulatory Expert Will Lead Efforts to Accelerate Company's Entry into Frequency Regulation Markets TYNGSBORO, Mass. -- Beacon Power Corporation (NASDAQ: BCON), a company that designs and develops advanced products and services to support more stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid operation, has hired Judith Judson as Director of Regulatory...
- Research articles 2008-02-26
- AEP Transmission Venture With Allegheny Files to Establish FERC Rate for Path Transmission Project
- To: ENERGY EDITORSContact: Melissa McHenry, Manager, Corporate Media Relations, +1- 614-716-1120, or Julie Sloat, Treasurer and Vice President, Investor Relations, +1-614-716-2885, both of American Electric Power COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) today announced that Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline LLC, AEP's transmission joint venture with Allegheny...
- Research articles 2007-12-28
- Commentary: Competition policy: The best path
- Winston Churchill once said, "Democracy is the worst form of government--except for all the others." The same could be said for competition policy in wholesale power markets. Competition policy has its flaws. It is not perfect, but it is better than the alternatives. One alternative is to rely completely...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Fitch Global Power Quarterly: U.S. Transmission Investment Moves Forward
- NEW YORK -- In Fitch Ratings' opinion, recent changes to final Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC incentive transmission rules are unlikely to derail the anticipated acceleration of transmission projects by utilities over the next several years, as discussed in Fitch's current 'Global Power Quarterly.' The FERC issued an amended rule...
- Research articles 2007-06-04
- Features. . Transmission: Smart grid still just a "vision thing"
- face=+Italic; T&D systems with embedded intelligence have a great future, and they always will. Too many powerful forces--politics, money, and power--remain to be reconciled before consumers and utilities can work together, seamlessly, to reduce electricity demand and eliminate delivery system bottlenecks.face=-Italic; By Kennedy Maize Smart Grid, GridWise, IntelliGrid, AMI...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- New ComEd rate increase requests on the table; Transmission, delivery charges are targeted.(News)(Commonwealth Edison Co.)
- Byline: STEVE DANIELS Keeping track of Commonwealth Edison Co.'s rate increases is getting complicated. The Chicago electric utility earlier this month asked federal regulators for an increase in the rates it charges to transmit power over high-voltage transmission lines, which would...
- Research articles 2007-03-19
- SCANA Reaches Settlement With FERC, Updates 2006 Earnings Guidance
- To: ENERGY EDITORSContact: Media, Eric Boomhower, +1-803-217-7701, or eboomhower@scana.com, or Investors, John Winn, +1-803-217-9240, or jwinn@scana.com, both of SCANA Corporation COLUMBIA, S.C., Jan. 18, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SCANA Corporation (NYSE: SCG) announced today that it has agreed to a settlement with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC regarding the use...
- Research articles 2007-01-18
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Issues Cheniere's Creole Trail LNG Receiving Terminal Final Environmental Impact Statement
- HOUSTON -- Cheniere Energy, Inc. (AMEX:LNG) reported today that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC has issued the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Cheniere's Creole Trail LNG, L.P. and Cheniere's Creole Trail Pipeline Company projects. The FERC Staff concludes that approval of the Creole Trail LNG Receiving Terminal and...
- Research articles 2006-05-05
- Legal & Regulatory
- face=+Bold; State monitoring fails the cost/benefit testface=-Bold; Utility regulators in California and other states have begun subjecting power plants to extensive oversight of their O&M activities. These oversight programs are a response to allegations that generators purposely shut operational plants down to drive electricity prices up during the 2000"2001...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- National Energy Marketers Association Annual Meeting to Focus on Energy Restructuring; Conference will convene national leaders to discuss the benefits of energy deregulation
- National Energy Marketers Association:WHAT National Energy Marketers Association will host a two-day conference titled National Energy Restructuring that will feature energy industry leaders discussing the status of ...
- Research articles 2006-04-19
- Regional Restructuring
- The regionalization of power markets began 40 years ago, but the Energy Policy Act gives this trend a boost and a new clarity The federal government has taken steps that should give those who still resist the logic of regional wholesale power markets some cause for reflection. Former...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- Federal Interagency Task Force on Competition in Electric Energy Markets Requests Public Comments Concerning Study
- WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A federal interagency task force requests comments from the public pertinent to a study of competition in wholesale and retail electric energy markets required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The task force, comprised of representatives from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,...
- Research articles 2005-10-19
- 2005 MIDYEAR MEETING: GENERAL SESSION-KEYNOTE SPEAKER
- COOPERATION CLEARS ENERGY PATHA better attitude about energy in Washington makes less restrictive legislation possible.Partisan politics has governed energy issues during the past few years, but now the politicians seem to be returning to voting aligned with the interests of their stakeholders instead of their parties.There's always politics in energy,...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Deregulation of the electric utility industry: an empirical study
- Abstract The recent energy crisis in California has raised several concerns with respect to deregulation. Some of these concerns relate to the high price and the cost of electricity. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 and the Federal...
- Research articles 2005-06-22
- Consumer Groups Appeal Ruling
- Federal regulators' efforts to set market-based rates for electric power sellers is illegal and should be overturned, a coalition of consumer groups and state officials says. In a petition filed with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in late April, the groups accuse the Federal...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Cheniere Energy Secures Option for 4th LNG Terminal
- HOUSTON -- Cheniere Energy Inc. (AMEX:LNG) announced today that it has secured an option on a large site at the mouth of the Calcasieu Channel in Cameron Parish, La., to develop its fourth proposed LNG facility on the U.S. Gulf coast. Cheniere's Creole Trail LNG is the company's second project...
- Research articles 2004-11-23
- Maine memo fuels more debate over Fall River, Mass., natural gas plans.
- By Mark Reynolds, The Providence Journal, R.I. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 15--FALL RIVER, Mass. -- A memo written last spring by a Maine state official suggests that the developer pursuing an unpopular liquefied natural gas shipping port in Fall River once...
- Research articles 2004-09-15
- Court backs energy refund for California ratepayers.
- By John Woolfolk, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 10--Federal regulators improperly barred electricity refunds to California for overcharges during the energy crisis, a U.S. appeals court ruled Thursday in a decision that could force power companies to...
- Research articles 2004-09-10
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