Lynne Kiesling In London, in the wake of a Liberty Fund conference on modern British liberalism [small-l, the European type] and conservatism. Home soon. A couple of folks may have noticed that comments and trackback pings have not been working here; this problem is due to a recent spam attack that my host did not …
Lynne Kiesling Last week Senators Burr (NC), Landrieu (LA), and Lott (MS) introduced S.498, ?To provide for the expansion of electricity transmission networks in order to support competitive electricity markets, to ensure reliability of electric service, to modernize regulation and for other purposes.? The proposed bill is at best a tweak of the Federal Power …
Senate Bill S.498: Removing Barriers To Competition? Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Looking for updates on oil prices, OPEC strategy, and other such global energy financial issues? I recommend The Capital Spectator, where James Picerno opines clearly and analytically about such things. Here in Chicago, it’s the sustained high world oil prices combined with it being March that drives up our gas prices. Why March, …
Lynne Kiesling Ken Malloy at the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets has written a rebuttal to Rebecca Smith’s Cranky Consumer column that I wrote about last week. Why don?t residential electric customers switch? Ms Smith?s story implies that it is variously stupid marketers, high electric prices, unwilling customers, or the policy of deregulation. …
Lynne Kiesling According to Larry Lessig in this article from March’s Wired issue, it’s state officials. In writing about municipal WiFi, Lessig argues that [t]he telcos’ argument isn’t much more subtle than that of the simpleton who began this column: Businesses shouldn’t have to compete against their governments. What the market can do, the government …
Who’s Stifling Competition To Keep Prices High In Telecom? Read More »
Ian Cook [NOTE: Our anti-spam software does not like something in Ian’s comment, so he graciously gave his consent to post this as a guest post — ed.] Unfortunately, I don’t know much about the institutions specifically within the electric power industry, so I imagine this will be of limited help. But, that’s never really …
Lynne Kiesling In my previous post about organic institutional change, I pondered Ostrom?s eight institutional design principles. She applies her analyses to common pool resources (CPRs). Are they also applicable to changing electricity regulation institutions? Obviously I suspect that the answer is ?yes? or I wouldn?t be putting us all through this. One of the …
Lynne Kiesling Senators Burr, Cochran, Landrieu, and Lott (note the much-touted “bipartisanness”) have introduced a new piece of electricity legislation: S.498 Title: A bill to provide for expansion of electricity transmission networks in order to support competitive electricity markets, to ensure reliability of electric service, to modernize regulation and for other purposes. It starts off …
Lynne Kiesling While I’m on the topic (and in work procrastination mode!), pray allow me to indulge in a wee bit of catblogging: Elle s’appelle Coco, elle a neuf ans, et elle est absolument magnifique. Elle était maigre et élégante il y a huit ans, donc le nom “Coco”, mais maintenant elle est la “successful …
Lynne Kiesling Something else for which to thank the Manolo … his link to La Coquette, living la vie magnifique in the fashion industry in Paris. Quel dommage. I like living vicariously through her reports on Paris Fashion Week this week. And I really, really like the Coco Chanel quote that one of her friends …
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