Comments on: 2009 power prices in ERCOT’s West zone: a mix of wind power, natural gas prices, transmission constraints, and (inefficient) congestion management practices http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/07/22/ercot-west-power-prices-2009-jan-jun/ Commentary on Economics, Information and Human Action Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:58:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: D.O.U.G. http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/07/22/ercot-west-power-prices-2009-jan-jun/#comment-8881 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:09:41 +0000 http://knowledgeproblem.com/?p=5050#comment-8881 I once asked a CAISO official “Who are you to decide what is Commercially Significant to me and my unit?” I was there with a group encouraging conversion to nodal pricing, about a month before the crisis struck. It took only nine years… ;)

]]> By: Negative power prices in ERCOT West: Charts for Jan-June 2009 « Knowledge Problem http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/07/22/ercot-west-power-prices-2009-jan-jun/#comment-8876 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:43:26 +0000 http://knowledgeproblem.com/?p=5050#comment-8876 [...] scale, as earlier charts showing 2008 data in order to make comparison easier.  As discussed in this post published earlier today, average power prices are lower in 2009 than they were in 2008, but prices have gone negative less [...]

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