Over the river and (around) the woods to grandma's house we go: long-term firm transmission rights, transmission market power, & gaming strategies in a deregulated energy market - an international comparison.
I. INTRODUCTION II. A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION REGULATION A. The Infancy of Electricity Deregulation B. The Deregulatory Era: 2000 to Present III. THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES A. The New, Semi-Independent Status of the Power Grid Destabilizes Coordination Between Interconnections B....

Burning our money to warm the planet: Canada's ineffective efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Over the past 15 years, the Canadian government has made several commitments to reduce domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Its goal has been to help the international effort to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of GHGs at levels that will reduce the risk of unacceptable climate change. To meet...

State and federal command-and-control regulation of emissions from fossil-fuel electric power generating plants.
I. INTRODUCTION In 2001, the public was fed a steady diet of news stories concerning electrical energy shortages and escalating prices. California received the most attention after experiencing power blackouts, rationing, and staggering increases in annual electric power costs. (1) Some industry interests attempted to use the...

Improving energy efficiency in existing buildings.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ASHRAE has had a long history of supporting energy conservation and offers a broad range of standards, guidelines, handbooks, and design technology that promote the efficient use of energy. Our mission statement is "To advance the arts and sciences of heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and...

Reshaping the electric power industry.
INTRODUCTION As the twenty-first century approaches and the world enters the information age, it is important to ask how the electric power industry can prepare for this dramatically new era of more efficient, cleaner, and more decentralized technologies. During the past decade and a half, many industries, from...

From public good to private exploitation: Gats and the restructuring of Canadian electrical utilities.
I. INTRODUCTION (*) When George W. Bush announced the U.S. would pursue a North American Energy Framework, his idea was greeted with enthusiasm by the Canadian government and energy-exporting provinces. The public outcry that could have been expected a decade earlier has failed to materialize thus far,...

Harnessing the wind.
The Rosebud Sioux like to tell the story of a visiting elder from a Southwest pueblo who came to their South Dakota tribal lands and asked, "Say, all your animals up here kind of lean over to one side. Do they fall over when the wind stops?" The Sioux...

Westar Energy Adopts Climate Change Policy.
ENERGY RESOURCE-10 September 2007-Westar Energy Adopts Climate Change Policy(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Westar Energy Inc., the largest electric utility in Kansas, today announced the adoption of the Westar Energy Climate Change Policy, an environmental framework that outlines actions the utility will take regarding climate change, including efforts...

Industry restructuring update.
This industry update summarizes material presented at the 1998 Regional Meeting Mini-Seminars. For additional information, contact Greg Boudreaux at (703) 907-5614 or e-mail at greg.boudreaux@nreca.org. The electric utility industry continues to change rapidly. In recent months, it has experienced just about everything, from continuing growth in the...

Connecting currents: toward the integration of North American electricity markets.
I. INTRODUCTION As recently as 1991, closed markets and governmentally owned or regulated monopolies characterized the electricity industries of Canada, Mexico, and the United States.(1) In the past, trade in electricity among these nations consisted only of limited power transfers between border utilities.(2) Today, North American electricity...