March 2007

The Kluge That We Need: Local Market Power Mitigation Measures

Michael Giberson Among the presenters at the Harvard Electricity Policy Group session on market power monitoring, Speaker 4 was the one who had it all together. Note that the session summaries characterize the discussions but do not name names, so theoretically I can’t link the discussion to a person and I suppose doing so isn’t …

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Manipulation of Illinois Wholesale Power Auction?

Michael Giberson A reader (in the comments here) asked whether we had any opinions on the complaint filed last week by the Illinois Attorney General alleging manipulation of the Illinois power procurement auction. Here’s the basic story, via Business Week and the Associated Press: Last year, the Illinois Commerce Commission oversaw a reverse auction, where …

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Still Here …

Lynne Kiesling Sorry for the radio silence; all of the things I’d like to write right now take more mental bandwidth than I can spare. I have literally been mentally composing a post on something for more than four months, but I haven’t had the mental space to think it through enough. Time for the …

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Bibliography of Studies Assessing Wholesale Power Markets

Michael Giberson Among the comments filed in response to the FERC technical conference on wholesale market competition, were remarks submitted by the District of Columbia Office of the People’s Counsel, Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, Maryland Office of the People’s Counsel, and Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate. (Here is the Energy Legal Blog overview of the …

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