May 12, 2005

Colorado Utility Penalized $5.6 Million For Power Outages

Michael Giberson Xcel Energy has been hit with a $5.6 million penalty for power outages last summer, even as the utility is forecasting a record demand for electricity during this summer’s peak months. Despite mild temperatures last summer, there were scattered power outages along the Front Range that made Xcel narrowly miss its outage standard. …

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Order: Emergent, Unplanned, Spontaneous

Lynne Kiesling Last week while I was in nose-to-grindstone mode (and traveling too), Russ Roberts had a very nice post on the difficulties of the word “spontaneous” in “spontaneous order”, and in general the challenge that we dynamic, forward-looking, spontaneous order folks have in communicating our ideas clearly and persuasively. Like Russ, I have changed …

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