Author name: Michael Giberson

FERC’s Smart Grid Policy Statement (And an Aside on Federal-State Jurisdictional Issues)

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Michael Giberson Also emerging from today’s FERC meeting, issuance of the Commission’s smart grid policy statement. At present only a press release and the chairman’s statement is available, but likely the full policy statement and remarks by other commissioners will be posted on the FERC home page in the next few hours. I imagine our …

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FERC Directs New York Power System Operator to Fix “Loop Flow” Scheduling Problem

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Michael Giberson Today the FERC approved public release of the results of an internal staff investigation into allegations of “loop flow”-based market manipulations in the New York ISO market (see links below): In this order, we authorize the public disclosure of the attached Office of Enforcement Staff Report (OE Report) addressing its non-public investigation of …

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World’s First Utility-Scale, Zero-Emissions Hydrogen Power Plant?

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Michael Giberson The Associated Press is reporting that a New Mexico company, Jetstream Wind (WARNING: annoying animated introduction accompanied by equally annoying dramatic soundtrack), has broken ground on what it claims will be “the world’s first utility-scale, zero-emissions hydrogen power plant.” According to the company website, their plan is to use renewable energy to produce …

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More on the FTC and Western New York Gasoline Prices

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Michael Giberson Following up on the earlier post, a recent FTC document details the agency’s activities addressing the oil and gas industry during the first six months of 2009. Of the investigation into gasoline prices in Western New York, the FTC said: The Commission’s work involving oil and natural gas also includes the examination of …

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Never Did See That Ftc Report on Western New York Gasoline Prices

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Michael Giberson In October of last year, Congressman Brian Higgins sent a letter to then FTC chairman William Kovacic requesting an investigation of gasoline prices in his home area of western New York. Historically, prices in Buffalo and surrounding areas have been below the average price in the state, but beginning around the time of …

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Geoff Styles on the CFTC’s Desire to Fix Up Energy Futures Markets

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Michael Giberson Geoff Styles: Speculation Witch Hunt? He says he thinks “the CFTC and its supporters in Congress and the administration are barking up the wrong tree, altogether, based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the markets.” the current determination to clamp down on speculation appears to be based on two hypotheses that are … probably …

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Sources and Uses of Electric Power Consumed in the United States

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Michael Giberson From the Annual Energy Review by the Energy Information Administration (a unit of the U.S. Department of Energy), a chart showing the sources and uses of electric power: Via Lou Grinzo at the Energy Collective. Click through on the chart to see a larger version (or get the PDF) from EIA. The chart …

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