Electricity

A Misguided Criticism Of Texas Electricity Deregulation

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Lynne Kiesling In a Wall Street Journal article on Friday titled “Texas Electricity Deregulation Hasn’t Aided Small Power Users,” Rebecca Smith suggests that small customers in Texas are not benefitting from electricity restructuring because the fuel price pass-through has led to higher prices: Deregulated power companies operating in their former monopoly territories were forced to …

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More On The Use Of The “Scarlet Letter” In Electric Reliability

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Lynne Kiesling Now that I am home for a couple of weeks I am going to catch up on some things, including Mike’s excellent post on the “naming of names” in electric reliability violations. In that post he notes FERC Chairman Pat Wood drew attention to “naming of names” in the recent quarterly compliance, and …

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Colorado Utility Penalized $5.6 Million For Power Outages

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Michael Giberson Xcel Energy has been hit with a $5.6 million penalty for power outages last summer, even as the utility is forecasting a record demand for electricity during this summer’s peak months. Despite mild temperatures last summer, there were scattered power outages along the Front Range that made Xcel narrowly miss its outage standard. …

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Metering And Pricing Activate Electricity Demand In California

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Lynne Kiesling In today?s Wall Street Journal, Rebecca Smith writes about changes under way in California (sub. req.) that would enable the three investor-owned utilities to offer their customers sophisticated digital meters and pricing options. The initiative that Smith describes is the culmination of a joint PUC/Energy Commission effort over the past three years to …

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A Quick Nuclear Risk Follow Up To Arnold

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Lynne Kiesling On Friday Arnold Kling went public with a little email chat that he, Randall Parker and I were having about strategies for managing nuclear power plant risks. The Price-Anderson Act is a controversial piece of law that limits the liability of nuclear power companies, essentially acting as a federal insurance subsidy to the …

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