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- Coal—Will It Ever Make the Market Data Ticker on CNBC? - By George Campbell
Utilipoint Pricing, Products and Services IssueAlert (PPS_IA)
Date Released: 4/16/2007When watching the continuous streaming of commodity data coming over TV on CNBC during the day, the value of oil, gasoline and natural gas are prominently updated every minute. However, coal, the United State's number one energy source and fuel for...
- The Next Balancing Act: Vertical Integration Efficiency and Wholesale Electric Markets - By George Campbell
Utilipoint Pricing, Products and Services IssueAlert (PPS_IA)
Date Released: 2/14/2007The debate over the level of net benefits from reconstructing electricity markets has resulted in a newfound appreciation for efficiencies inherent in and unique to vertically integrated electric utilities (VIEU). These benefits were largely ignored...
- 21st Century Electric Utility Marketing Plans - By George Campbell
Utilipoint Pricing, Products and Services IssueAlert (PPS_IA)
Date Released: 1/10/2007Vertically Integrated Electric Utilities' (VIEUs) marketing departments will have to brace themselves for their industrial segment's responses to rate increases when they start building base load nuclear and coal plants. Even though this is the qui...
- Transmission – It’s Not as Risk Free as You Might Think - By George Campbell
Utilipoint Pricing, Products and Services IssueAlert (PPS_IA)
Date Released: 10/2/2006The 2005 Energy Policy Act (EPAct 2005) significantly changed the regulatory risk of operating a transmission system for an Investor Owned Utility (IOU). Section 1284 establishes fines for civil penalties of $1,000,000 per violation per transaction p...
- How to Improve the Efficiency and Liquidity in Bilateral Wholesale Markets - By George Campbell
Utilipoint Pricing, Products and Services IssueAlert (PPS_IA)
Date Released: 9/18/2006Achieving the highest possible level of economic efficiency should be the goal in designing and operating electricity markets. It is instructive therefore to state the obvious: Bilateral wholesale electric markets dominated by large vertically integr...
- Congress Gets Economic Dispatch Report - By George Campbell
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Date Released: 9/8/2006EPAct 2005 required the FERC and DOE to convene Regional Joint Boards on Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED). The definition of SCED as described in the Act is: "The operation of generation facilities to produce energy at the lowest cost to...
- Knowledge is Power - By Peter Cappers
Utilipoint Pricing, Products and Services IssueAlert (PPS_IA)
Date Released: 9/6/2006"In a world without numbers, facts or figures, we are left only with opinions." Anonymous As an analyst, decision making in the absence of facts, in the form of numerical measures, makes me nervous. Give me a mean, give me a variance, and I can ...
- "Trading Around Regulated Utility Assets” - Is it a Necessity for a Performance Driven Utility? - By George Campbell
Utilipoint Pricing, Products and Services IssueAlert (PPS_IA)
Date Released: 8/25/2006A vigorous trading culture should have a profound influence on the purchase and sales activities of vertically integrated electric utilities (VIEU). Properly conducted, trading improves the performance of electricity markets, and therefore the econom...
- It's A New Day, and a New Way for Vertically Integrated Utilities in North America - By Bob Bellemare and George Campbell
Utilipoint Pricing, Products and Services IssueAlert (PPS_IA)
Date Released: 8/18/2006For a while it appeared that the U.S. electric utilities that built the largest and most reliable electric system in the world would become the subject of a History Channel retrospective. The sweeping redesign of electricity markets, to improve mar...
- The Missing Link in Electricity Markets - By Bernie Neenan
Utilipoint Pricing, Products and Services IssueAlert (PPS_IA)
Date Released: 7/28/2006What is the missing link in today's electricity markets? No, it is not centrally managed capacity markets, although they may be an important precursor to the emergence of what is missing. It is definitely not the imposition of price caps: soft, hard ...