Lynne Kiesling The radio silence here is a result of my being at the convention for supporters of energy markets sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets. Yesterday was a full day of speakers, all of whom were styled “energy market enthusiasts”, topped off with a banquet. We talked a lot yesterday …
Michael Giberson I?m puzzled. Earlier this year I was involved in a project examining natural gas price volatility, and as part of the background work I examined circuit breakers in futures contracts. As it turned out, the circuit breaker on the NYMEX natural gas futures contract was the most permissive by a wide margin. Circuit …
Lynne Kiesling For years Warren Buffett has been saying that there is a lot of untapped, uncreated value to be unleashed in the electricity industry. Berkshire Hathaway’s acquisition of PacifiCorp, a retail utility in the Pacific Northwest, is its first large acquisition in seven years. Long-time KP readers know that this is the kind of …
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Michael Giberson An editorial in today’s Washington Post hints at trouble on the horizon for ethanol. Ethanol has long been the product of Midwestern corn, Washington D.C. style pork, and a questionable environmental heritage, with the middle element of that troika propping up the enterprise. Now, however, the long-awaited “next generation” of ethanol, ethanol produced …
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Michael Giberson John Atkinson has posted the May edition of New Energy Currents, his monthly roundup of energy technology and policy commentary found on the web. This post, one of the features at Winds of Change, presents the best scan of energy topics that I’ve seen in blogspace. (Found via the miracle of TrackBack, since …
Michael Giberson You are running low on gas, you know that you will drive past 15 gas stations on your commute home, but you don’t know who has the best price. (Sure, you could have checked prices on the commute to work this morning, but you were jet-lagged, or busy spilling coffee on your newspaper, …
Michael Giberson One view of the Duke-Cinergy merger: The picture is Platts’ Map Highlight of the Week, a series of images that Platts publishes to promote their map and data collections.
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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Lynne Kiesling Thanks to the guys over at 2 Blowhards for their recent link to my recent energy bill rant. Since it’s generating readers, here’s more! But not from me. Here’s one from Jonathan Adler over at The Commons, with links to other commentaries. One of his links suggests that the “peak oil” corpses are …
Michael Giberson Have you noticed how low gasoline prices have been lately? No? Apparently you haven?t been paying attention. Fortunately, a representative of Burch Oil, which sells gasoline in Southern Maryland from Burchmart convenience stores, was paying attention. When prices dropped too low at gas stations down the street last week ? to 199.9 ? …
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