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Salon.com
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February 14, 2001
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Energy vultures California's electricity crisis could have been avoided if profiteering power-generating companies hadn't blocked further deregulation.... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Abuse of Power: How Manipulative Trading Undermined Energy Deregulation At its height, Enron dominated -- and arguably even helped create -- the energy trading industry. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that Enron's demise is creating as many waves as its successes. |
Reason
June 2009
Lynne Kiesling |
Electric Intelligence Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies. |
Salon.com
January 17, 2001
Anthony York |
Power politics California Democrats are trying to buy electricity to sell to state utilities, but Republicans and energy companies are crying foul... |
Salon.com
April 5, 2001
Damien Cave |
The world according to Paul Economist du jour Paul Krugman weighs in on the China standoff, California's energy crisis and whether the economy has hit rock bottom... |
Industrial Physicist
Eric J. Lerner |
What's wrong with the electric grid? Experts widely agree that failures of the power-transmission system are a nearly unavoidable product of a collision between the physics of the system and the economic rules that now regulate it. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. |
IDB America
July 2001
Jaime Millan |
Half dark or half light? Latin America's electricity problems won't be solved by backtracking on reforms... |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2005
Madani & Novoosel |
Getting a Grip on the Grid The findings of major electric disturbances around the world highlight the need for cross-regional grid reforms, so that the best available technology is promptly put to use, without lengthy delays arising from American legislative or regulatory processes. |
Fast Company
July 2009
Anya Kamenetz |
Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got. |
Wired
July 2001
Steve Silberman |
The Energy Web The best minds in electricity R&D have a plan: Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming -- and interconnected with everything else... |
Salon.com
January 30, 2001
Damien Cave |
Power and the people The electricity industry and the GOP blame NIMBY neighbors for the crisis. Critics say they're trying to turn out the lights on democracy... |
BusinessWeek
June 4, 2007
Aaron Pressman |
New Spark In Utility Stocks Why the once-staid utility sector is generating breathtaking returns. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2006
Jill Jusko |
Energy: New Plants, Old Problems Hundreds of new power plants are in the works in the United States, but they won't make energy cheaper or more reliable for manufacturers or consumers. |
Salon.com
June 1, 2001
William Bradley |
The unlikely populist California's Gray Davis is scoring political points by bashing Bush and "greedy" Texas energy firms, but the cautious centrist probably won't become the scourge of the energy industry... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
PG&E: A Utility Struggles to Adapt to the Information Age Pacific Gas and Electric Company may be an ancient dinosaur, but one of its problems is too much technology. That is, too many scattered information technology systems that don't talk to one another. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Harry Goldstein |
How to Blackout-Proof a City Mumbai's economic miracle threatens to overwhelm the power grid. |
Salon.com
January 18, 2001
Damien Cave |
Green power in the red Electricity deregulation is bankrupting California's fledgling eco-friendly energy industry... |
Salon.com
January 17, 2001
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Turn off the Internet! Is the global computer network to blame for the current electricity crisis? Lackeys of the power industry want us to think so... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2002
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Lessons from a Decade of Transition in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union A decade after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991, some transition economies are performing far better than others. Reducing barriers to entry is not enough -- hard budget constraints must also be imposed on the old money-losing state-owned enterprises. |
Finance & Development
June 2007 |
Book Reviews Harnessing the market... A wakeup call for Europe... How news affects sovereign spreads... etc. |
Salon.com
June 19, 2001
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Take it public The failure of energy deregulation should make us reconsider blind faith in the market -- and take a second look at public power systems like the one that lights up Hollywood... |
Reason
June 2001
Carolyn Lochhead |
Electrifying Performances California's senators' responses to the energy crisis... |
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June 2001
Michael W. Lynch |
Keystone Success Why Pennsylvania's electricity deregulation plan has worked -- so far... |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 8, 2012
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Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid? Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire opportunity for entrepreneurs. So what went wrong? |
BusinessWeek
May 23, 2005
Manjeet Kripalani |
Not Enough Power to the People In India, power is politics -- electrical power, that is. But while makers of electrical equipment thrive, reform lags, blackouts occur daily, and the people are up in arms. Meanwhile, foreign investment is "waiting and watching." |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
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Smart Conservation for the Lazy Consumer People aren't conserving energy for love or money -- you have to trick them into it |
IndustryWeek
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Andrew Fellon |
Viewpoint -- What to Expect from Obama's Coming Energy Initiatives The U.S. will see higher prices in electricity and fossil fuels as producers struggle to adjust to new laws and standards. |
CIO
May 1, 2001
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Think Outside the Grid California's power crisis is a wake-up call. Now, to keep their websites from crashing and their IT systems from freezing, CIOs need to focus on risk planning... |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2007
William Sweet |
Portrait of a Mature Grid Operator With electricity deregulation, independent authorities have been established to manage regional power systems. But not all are created equal. |
PHONE+
January 26, 2010
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Energy Regulation: Watts Up With That? As of today, 13 states and the District of Columbia have great variance in methodologies and regulations among them. |
Industrial Physicist
Feb/Mar 2004 |
Letters Micro vs. Macro... Neutron generators... Electric grid... etc. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Positive Charges Understanding contract options can make your electric bills spark long-term savings. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2001
Christian Keller & Peter S. Heller |
Social Sector Reform in Transition Countries Transition countries need to reform their social sectors to promote the welfare of their citizens and spur economic growth. In part, this means building up and redesigning social safety nets and addressing problems. It also requires cutting some benefits and privileges... |
BusinessWeek
October 6, 2003
Manjeet Kripalani |
India: Getting Power to the People As it lets private outfits compete with state utilities, will foreign players return? |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2006
Zagha, Nankani & Gill |
Rethinking Growth Economists are reconsidering what they really know about economic growth and how to go about formulating global national policies in the absence of reliable models. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
Vaclav Smil |
A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy It takes several lifetimes to put a new energy system into place, and wishful thinking can't speed things along |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2007 |
Letters To The Editor For February 2007 Fair play in energy? Fair politics in Western New York? |
The Motley Fool
July 27, 2010
Rich Duprey |
Maybe the Smart Grid Is Dumb Regulators are forcing utilities that invested in the technology to wear a dunce cap. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2003
Adam Bennett |
Failed Legacies Escaping the ghosts of central economic planning |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2006
William Sweet |
Get-Rich-Quick Scheme ConsumerPowerline, a four-year-old New York company, is showing its clients how to make money, and quite a lot of it, by not using electricity. |
BusinessWeek
June 23, 2011
Mariko Yasu |
Softbank's CEO Wants a Solar-Powered Japan Masayoshi Son wants to ramp up solar energy capacity in Japan and take on the established utilities at the same time. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2004
Jim Mueller |
PG&E's Dividend At first glance, Pacific Gas & Electric seems to be using debt to finance its recently announced dividend. Say it isn't so! But don't jump to conclusions. Consumers and shareholders win on this deal. |
CIO
May 15, 2001
Heather Harreld |
What a Switch! Before deregulation, utilities didn't have to worry about customer service. Now they do. But buying CRM software won't do the trick... |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
Pedro Pou |
Argentina's Structural Reforms of the 1990s Argentina experienced serious economic and financial difficulties in the 1980s. Hyperinflation in 1989-90 finally elicited the necessary political consensus for reform. Despite areas of concern, structural reforms implemented in the 1990s have set Argentina on the path to sustained growth. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2005
Bill Paul |
Cleaning Up With 'Socks and Knocks' A $40 billion opportunity awaits investors in companies that make equipment to fight air pollution due to requirements that the Bush administration is about to impose on the electric power industry. |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2003
John Teresko |
Power Plays Rethink energy management with distributed power generation, higher-efficiency equipment and business-continuity planning. |
