DPS Staff Issues Draft ReportSince our prior post on the Queens power outage, the New York Department of Public Service (DPS) staff issued a Draft Report. The report, expected to […]
FERC is still holding administrative hearings to determine whether wholesale electricity buyers are owed refunds from Enron due to market manipulation in 2001. The prehearing statement of issues in dispute […]
AARP filed comments January 19, 2007 in FERC’s pending rulemaking proceeding in which the agency proposes for the first time to adopt official rules to reflect its market rate experiment […]
The New York State Department of Corrections (DOCS) contracts with MCI for prison inmate collect call telephone service. For many families whose relatives are incarcerated in distant prisons, this is […]
At a recent meeting FERC adopted rules to implement a new statutory provision, Section 219 of the Federal Power Act, which authorizes, in certain situations, extra financial incentives, through higher […]
In Section 1221(a)of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Congress for the first time enabled the federal government to approve the siting and location of new electric transmission projects. The […]
In March 2006 the New York Public Service Commission issued a Staff Report on the State of Competitive Energy Markets lauding the claimed results of its efforts to restructure New […]
The New York PSC’s “Light Regulation” Regime for New Electric CompaniesIn the 1990’s heyday of electricity deregulation championed by Enron, 15 state legislatures authorized “restructuring” of their electric industries. In […]
AT&T was divided into seven regional bell operating companies (RBOCs) as a result of protracted antitrust litigation that ended in the 1980’s. The RBOCs basically were confined to local phone […]
Blackout Task Force Recommends an Independent StudyThe Joint U.S. Canada Task Force Final Report on the widespread Northeast blackout of August 14, 2003 issued a number of recommendations. Number 12 […]