The ability of FERC to successfully form regional transmission organizations (RTOs) throughout the country will in large measure be tied to how much cooperation and support federal regulators receive from their counterparts at the state level, a key FERC staff member told an audience of energy attorneys in Washington, DC, last Thursday.
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ESAI: Bullish Oil Market Could Lift Power Prices
Despite regional generation capacity additions and a preventative maintenance season, a sustained rally in the oil markets, combined with summer heat, could significantly strengthen power prices this summer, with the greatest impacts seen in such gas-dependent areas as NEPOOL (New England) and the Western Systems Coordinating Council (WSCC), Energy Security Analysis Inc. (ESAI) said in its latest “North American Power Market Watch.”
April 8, 2002
Dislike of Markets, Poor Public Policy Foul Western Power Markets
Economics, politics and public policy pressures seem to be converging against the creation of regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and more cohesive, coherent power markets in the West, according to a consultant and a generators’ representative who spoke at GasMart/Power 2002 last Tuesday in Reno. Although on opposite sides in California’s ongoing electricity restructuring debate, they agreed that regulators and public policymakers need to change their approaches substantially in the future.
March 25, 2002
EIA Sees Rosy Northeast Gas Picture, but Energy Execs Have Misgivings
Despite forecasts of slower regional economic and population growth, the Northeast is expected to consume one-third more natural gas over the next 20 years just to fuel the string of power generation facilities that are planned for the region, an official with the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said last Thursday.
February 4, 2002
EIA Sees Rosy Northeast Gas Picture, but Energy Execs Have Misgivings
Despite forecasts of slower regional economic and population growth, the Northeast is expected to consume one-third more natural gas over the next 20 years just to fuel the string of power generation facilities that are being constructed in the region, an official with the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Thursday.
February 1, 2002
FERC’s Four-RTO Strategy Assailed
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission may be over-reaching in trying to hone regional transmission organizations (RTO) down to “four plus one (ERCOT),” according to congressmen and witnesses before the House Energy and Air Quality subcommittee Wednesday.
October 15, 2001
Northwest Council Keeps Eye on Gas, Low Hydro
Despite strong urging from natural gas distributors, the regional Northwest Power Planning Council in Portland, OR, is expected later this month to draw short of stepping up the region’s push for faster natural gas conversions by end-users, letting market forces decide. Meanwhile, the council is keeping a close eye on the extremely low hydro situation, whose impact has been eased by a combination of emergency generation units and shutdown of major industrial plants.
September 24, 2001
Northwest Council Keeps Eye on Gas, Low Hydro
Despite strong urging from natural gas distributors, the regional Northwest Power Planning Council in Portland, OR, is expected later this month to draw short of stepping up the region’s push for faster natural conversions by end-users, letting market forces decide. Meanwhile, the council is keeping a close eye on the extremely low hydro situation, whose impact has been eased by a combination of emergency generation units and shutdown of major industrial plants.
September 18, 2001
FERC Sets Stage for Broad RTO in Southeast
FERC last week took the first step towards developing a broadregional transmission organization (RTO) in the southeasternsection of the nation.
March 19, 2001
FERC Sets Stage for Broad RTO in Southeast
FERC last week took the first step towards developing a broadregional transmission organization (RTO) in the southeasternsection of the nation.
March 19, 2001
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