Michael Giberson A story by Peter Behr in today’s Washington Post lays out all the pieces in the dispute between PJM and Joe Bowring, chief of PJM’s market monitoring unit: Federal energy regulators plan to meet today to try to resolve damaging accusations against PJM Interconnection by a key employee who oversees the fairness of …
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Michael Giberson John Podesta, currently president of the Center for American Progress, recently spoke to the National Association of State Treasurers: Continued leadership from state treasurers on global warming will be essential to ensure that we address the scale and urgency of climate risk—and capture the vast economic possibilities that lie ahead as the world …
Michael Giberson Yesterday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission held a hearing to discuss whether it should increase oversight of energy trading on currently exempt commercial markets. Interest in the topic was heightened by disclosures related to the Amaranth Advisors LLC blow up last year, when it was determined that Amaranth sought to manipulate the price …
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Michael Giberson Last Friday, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sent subpoenas to five power generating companies seeking to find out if the companies had properly disclosed financial risks associated with proposed new coal-fired power plants. All five of the letters accompanying the subpoenas are available from the NYAG’s website. Here is the opening paragraph …
Lynne Kiesling Kevin Bullis at Technology Review has a nice post that dispels some misunderstandings about plug-in hybrid vehicles. I encourage you to follow his links and to learn more about plug-in hybrids, how they work, and what benefits they introduce into the entire electricity ecosystem, in particular, their article on “how plug-in hybrids will …
Lynne Kiesling Michael Boskin will be on the Council of Economic Advisers for Gaia Online, Gaia Interactive announced Monday morning that Michael Boskin, still a Hoover senior fellow and Stanford professor, will become chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors for Gaia Online, a virtual world that attracts 2.5 million monthly participants who engage in …
Michael Giberson Generally we don’t air our dirty laundry in public around here. But that won’t stop me from pointing out that Alex Tabarrok has a good post on the Department of Energy’s energy efficiency standards for washing machines.
Michael Giberson Rebecca Smith has an article on demand response in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal with all the surprise of “dog bites man” headline: “Incentives Prove Powerful.” Reporters don’t generally write headlines, so I guess she’s not to blame. (Oh, I get it, it is supposed to be a clever play on words. You see, …
Michael Giberson “Some of the argument centers on just how smart a smart meter needs to be.” That’s a line out of a story from the Philadelphia Inquirer about smart meters and the upcoming special legislative session on energy beginning in Pennsylvania next week. Governor Ed Rendell is pushing for a retail real-time price option …
Michael Giberson Energy Transfer Partners, the Texas-based company already the target of FERC and CFTC action for allegedly manipulating natural gas markets, is now the target of a private lawsuit for damages asserted to have resulted from ETP’s former trading practices. According to Platts: [The] suit, filed with the US District Court for the Southern …
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