Michael Giberson The Salt River Project, a central Arizona public power utility serving almost a million consumers, already charges it’s customers higher rates in the summer, but they are proposing to increase their summer rates even more. The Arizona Republic reports: Salt River Project wants to prompt more people to conserve during the hottest hours …
Lynne Kiesling Note also the Popular Mechanics CES Blog; Popular Mechanics has sent KP friend Glenn Reynolds to the CES to report on what he finds there.
Lynne Kiesling The annual Consumer Electronics Show kicks off today in Las Vegas, and at least at a marketing level it’s going green: Gadget makers are joining a green movement sweeping the corporate world, a new theme at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Vendors plan to display products such as biodegradable PCs and solar-powered cellphone …
Michael Giberson As a result of their good-faith negotiations and the commendable efforts of the Commission-provided facilitator and mediation specialists, the parties reached consensus regarding revisions to the Market Monitoring Plan in the PJM Open Access Transmission Tariff (“PJM Tariff”). The parties also reached consensus regarding revisions to terms in the Operating Agreement … on …
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Michael Giberson From an interview at Cleantech.com: The term Advanced Metering Infrastructure is commonly used in the industry, but is often described in different fashions. How does ESCO define AMI? Automated Meter Reading (AMR) is primarily focused on replacing manually read meter operations. AMI includes not only automated meter reading at a frequency of hourly …
Lynne Kiesling I firmly believe that retail choice in electricity has instrumental value in and of itself: choice qua choice is a good thing and should be an important policy goal in electricity restructuring, independent of utilitarian evaluations of the outcomes of free choice. There are, though, several ways that free choice and the removal …
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Lynne Kiesling I am late to the party because I was grading last week, but I commend to your attention Ron Bailey’s first, second, third, and fourth essays from the United Nations conference on climate change in Bali over the last two weeks. Ron is a thoughtful analyst of the climate change questions, and that …
Michael Giberson The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) folks have posted the comments filed in response to the final auction design report. Previously here I commented on one such filing, an analysis by economist Peter Cramton submitted by the ISO-New England and NYISO, that pointed out a potential flaw in the auction design. Briefly scanning …
Michael Giberson At Common Tragedies, Rich Sweeney observed that “Pool and spa safety makes it into the energy bill,” but “renewable portfolio standards and increased oil taxes didn’t.” According to the preamble of the proposed “Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007,” it is intended (among other things) to “move the United States toward greater …
Michael Giberson Most of the integrated power markets in the United States release market participant bid and offer data after a six month delay, with identities of the participants masked. Recently ISO-New England proposed reducing the amount of time the data release is delayed. A recent overview of data release policies, conducted by William Dunn …
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