Electricity

Are Texans Better Off Because of Power Industry Restructuring?

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Michael Giberson The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports: Deregulation has resulted in higher electric rates for North Texans, according to a new report. Conducted on behalf of Fort Worth, Dallas, Arlington and about 100 other municipalities, the study concludes that rates offered to customers in deregulated areas of North Texas are higher, on average, than rates …

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Are We Better Off Because of Power Industry Restructuring?

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Michael Giberson Last week the The New York Times printed a letter to the editor by Bronko Terzic responding to the most recent of the paper’s power markets restructuring articles. (Lynne and I have previously commented on the article.) Terzic writes: There is a big difference in saying that electricity markets are not working because …

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CA PUC Chairman Peevey to Illinois: Don’t Continue the Rate Freeze

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Lynne Kiesling Today’s Chicago Tribune has a commentary from Michael Peevey, Chairman of the California Public Utilities Commission. Based on his experience in California since 2000, he cautions the Illinois legislature against continuing the retail rate freeze that has been in place for a decade, during a period of rising fuel costs. To placate suspicious …

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Residential Real-time Pricing in Illinois in 2007 and Beyond

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In April the Illinois legislature passed legislation (and in June Governor Blagojevich signed it) requiring electric utilities to consider and evaluate the use of dynamic pricing to enable customer demand response. This legislation also directed the Illinois Commerce Commission to use benefit-cost analysis to evaluate whether such pricing and metering would lead to net benefits. …

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Powerful Opportunity for Demand Response in Northern Virginia

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Michael Giberson It is a delicate situation, trying to serve the power needs of some of the nation’s most powerful and well-connected people, but that’s the job that Dominion Power has in serving load in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, and surrounding areas. Population is growing in Northern Virginia, as is the size …

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A Better NYT Article on Electricity Restructuring, But Still Not A Good One

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Lynne Kiesling While I hate to disagree with my esteemed colleague’s assessment of David Cay Johnston’s electricity restructuring article from the New York Times, I do disagree. Yes, it’s better than the first one, but the first one was a confused muddle of too many angles on a very complicated set of issues. This one …

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Texas State Government Takes Own Advice, Goes Energy Shopping

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Michael Giberson Texas state agencies spend as much as $50 million a year too much for electricity because they haven’t taken the government’s own advice to shop around. … So the state’s Council on Competitive Government this year hired electricity consultant LPB Energy of Dallas to help agencies find lower rates. The council expects the …

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Puhca Repeal Yet to Produce Utility Powerhouse

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Michael Giberson Repeal of the Depression-era Public Utilities Holding Company Act of 1935 was widely expected to produce a kind of merger mania, as antiquated restrictions were stripped away and true wheelin’ and dealin’ could begin. There were dire prognostications of the nation’s utilities growing into multi-state powerhouses and eventually rolling up into four or …

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Iain Murray on Electricity Infrastructure Investment

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Lynne Kiesling Iain Murray has an oped in Monday’s Examiner about environmental concerns and building new electric power infrastructure: One key problem is the sheer difficulty in building new power plants in America today. Politically powerful green lobby groups object to the building of any new plant that does not use some form of renewable …

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