The advent of energy deregulation in New Jersey nearly 12 years ago allowed electricity consumers to shop for the best rates and pick their own supplier. But the choices for alternate suppliers remained limited and only a small fraction of residential customers made the switch. Eventually, some suppliers left the state.
But newer companies have been [...]
WASHINGTON — If you were to vote for the next U.S. senator from Washington state based solely on energy and climate issues, you couldn’t complain for lack of choices.
Among the four leading candidates is an incumbent who has voted in alignment with environmental groups and a tea-party favorite who blames “environmental extremists” for the crux [...]
The Obama administration just announced a handout of $2 billion to build solar panels. The development of this type of energy is politically sexy. Jobs are created to build and maintain the panels, which scream eco-friendly every time they appear on camera.
No one is criticizing the initiative, but it overlooks a power source boasting far [...]
Renewables like solar power and others can’t fuel America’s future. Say experts: Just do the math.
About once a month, Robert Bryce climbs onto the roof of his Austin, Texas, home, lugging a long-handled mop. The science writer and Manhattan Institute fellow isn’t cleaning gutters. He’s cleaning solar panels.
The 3,200-watts of solar photovoltaic panels provide one-third [...]
Black Hills area power consumers raised an old issue about competition this spring when writing to state regulators to complain about a possible electric rate increase.
“We customers do not have the choice to go to a cheaper supplier of electricity — we are captives!!” Doris Schenk of Spearfish wrote in a letter.
Despite public outrage over [...]
Why is the model for the Texas Energy Deregulation?
started in late 1999, Texas and 22 other states had their own electric utility deregulation. Since then, Texas has learned from a typical utility regulated by the State in an electrical system that 75% is converted deregulated, so the majority of the population, both the electric service [...]
A lot of focus in North Dakota lately has been on traditional energy with the discovery of the Bakken and Three Forks formations.
But, a summit at Bismarck State College today is reminding people that our state also has a lot of renewable energy potential.
Speakers at the renewable energy summit say the country needs [...]
HARRISBURG – State Rep. Camille “Bud” George, chair of the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, today noted that a study by a national group indicates that ratepayers paid higher rates under deregulation despite continuing profits by deregulated utilities and sharply lower wholesale electricity costs.
“The study by the American Public Power Association shows consumers suffered [...]
The world could generate 95 percent of electricity from renewable energies by 2050 in a drastic shift from fossil fuels, with the United States paying about a third of a giant bill.
The report, by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC), representing Europe’s main renewable energy companies, is one of the most detailed to [...]
The past two decades have witnessed efforts throughout the world to deregulate electricity markets. The world´s main economies have carried out schemes to put in place efficient and competitive wholesale markets for electricity within the framework of globalization and liberalization. Yet the physical peculiarities of electricity make it a rather complex commodity, and frequent inefficiencies [...]
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