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Headline	Author	Published	Section
A little karate On electricity deregulation	Sean Casten	20 Sep 2007	Gristmill
In The Karate Kid, Mr. Miyagi advises that 'It is good to know karate. It is good not to know karate. It is not good to know a little karate.' With the price caps now coming off in the few states that partially deregulated their electricity grids, there is a rising backlash against competitive markets, with some of that backlash even coming from normally pro-market groups like The Cato Institute. This backlashers generally argue that partial deregulation has taught us th ...
Topics: business, coal, electricity grid, energy (all these topics)

Discover Brilliant: Smart grid R&D	David Roberts	19 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Next up, a discussion of trends in energy industry R&D. Starring: Gridwise Council, Alison Silverstein (Moderator) PIER and California Energy Commission, Merwin Brown, Director of Transmission Research Modern Grid Initiative, NETL, Steve Pullins Bonnevile Power Authority, Terry Oliver, Chief Technology Innovation Officer Oliver: Electric utilities invest tiny amounts of money in R&D -- "less than the dog food industry." This is bad on ...
Topics: business, electricity grid, energy, tech (all these topics)

Four cents a kilowatt-hour The high price of electricity deregulation	Kristina & Jason Makansi	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill
In David Cay Johnston's NYT article 'A New Push to Regulate Power Costs,' he writes about the fact that many states are rolling back their deregulatory initiatives. The main reason, he says, is price. Ahh, price. That magic number at the nexus of supply and demand. The problem with price in electricity markets is that it is not determined by supply and demand, as in a free, deregulated market -- even in those states where there was, supposedly, d ...
Topics: business, electricity grid, energy (all these topics)

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