The spring issue of Regulation magazine is full of good articles, including the Adelman article to which I referred yesterday. Another article worthy of careful reading is ?Economics at the Pump? by my colleague Bart Wilson and Cary Deck. They report on a set of experiments that they ran to explore the effects of different …
Michael Giberson ERCOT recently set a new record for consecutive pricing intervals below $0/MWh for balancing energy market prices in the ERCOT West region: 39.25 hours of negative prices. The episode started at 7:45 PM on Saturday, November 6 and the negative prices continued until 11:00 AM on Monday, November 8. The previous record …
Top 10 Longest Periods with Consecutive Negative Power Prices, Ercot West Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Two recent news articles highlight the relevance of electricity price signals and intelligent end-use technology during a period of increasing fuel prices, and the juxtaposition of the two articles highlights consumers changing their behavior in the face of high energy prices. In short, the institutional change required to achieve thriving, healthy retail electricity …
Lynne Kiesling Jeff Jarvis is writing a series called Issues 2004, and his post on energy policy from Monday tackles a lot of important questions and offers some recommendations. In addition, the comments on his post include a lot of good insights and thoughts. Here are my thoughts. Jeff starts with his memories of the …
The California ISO has been in the throes of restructuring for the past two years, and has released what is likely to be its final design proposal. The ISO board has approved this proposal. In lieu of my slapdash review of it, I attach here some comments from a very knowledgeable and insightful colleague of …
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