Michael Giberson “I think there are a significant amount of people who call themselves hedge-fund managers who have been very lucky because they were able to ride the market wave.” — Daniel A. Strachman, author of The Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Management In mid-2006, that lucky group included a number of employees of Amaranth Advisors …
Michael Giberson A number of prominent European energy economists, analysts and policy makers (and a couple of outsiders) are blogging at the “EU Energy Policy Blog.” Among the Europeans are Andris Piebalgs, Richard Green and Yves Smeers; two American contributers are Paul Joskow and Steven Stoft. On July 1, William Nuttall posted “Why is Nuclear …
Michael Giberson One difference between regulated and unregulated utility companies is, apparently, that unregulated power suppliers use more sophisticated fuel purchasing strategies than their regulated counterparts. At least that is the message I get from this Platt’s Coal Trader article, “Deregulated utilities may use stocks as bargaining chips“, reporting on a statement made by Arch …
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Michael Giberson The New York Times, “Congress Turns to Energy, and Lobbyists Arrive“: With gasoline prices hovering near all-time highs, the Senate on Monday began debating a sprawling energy bill that has already kicked off an epic lobbying war by huge industries, some of them in conflict with one another: car companies, oil companies, electric …
Michael Giberson Ken Silverstein has a column about restructured retail electric power markets up at EnergyBiz Insider. He’s collected a variety of viewpoints and generally provides an update on the current state of things. He saves the fun part until nearly the end, where he quote Andrea Morrison, regulatory affairs director of Strategic Energy: With …
Michael Giberson Via the Associated Press and San Diego Union-Tribune: PHOENIX – Saying they won’t hurt Arizona utility customers to benefit Californians, [Arizona] state regulators on Wednesday rejected a utility’s plan to build a $581 million cross-desert power transmission line to carry electricity generated at plants in Arizona to customers in California. In an essay, …
Lynne Kiesling Earlier this week there was a good story in the New York Times on energy efficiency and increasing industrial and commercial interest in improving their energy efficiency. In talking about getting utilities more interested in inducing their customers to implement more efficient technologies, the article notes that Opportunities like this abound in the …
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Lynne Kiesling The subject has roiled for the past few months: if the balance of the evidence has shifted toward the value of our taking more actions to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, should the U.S. implement a carbon tax or a carbon market? Stated that bluntly, and based on centuries of experience with taxes …
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Michael Giberson The Consumerist seeks to answer the recurring question, “Why Is Gas So Freakin’ Expensive?” We could quibble with bits and pieces of the story they offer, but overall it is a solid introduction to the economics of gasoline prices. Easy enough for an interested high-schooler, or perhaps a conversation starter for your freshman …
Lynne Kiesling With apologies for the shameless self-promotion: this Chicago Tribune article on gas prices in Illinois has some quotes from me, and others, on putting these gas prices in a proper context. I also found this New York Times article from Sunday on “price gouging” to be a more sensible and analytical view on …
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