Price-responsive demand in wholesale markets: Why is so little happening?

Electricity Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 25-37

  Hirst, Eric ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0007110866     PISSN: 10406190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-6190(01)00194-4     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Eric Hirst and Brendan Kirby, Retail-Load Participation in Competitive Wholesale Electricity Markets, Edison Electric Institute, Washington, DC, and Project for Sustainable FERC Energy Policy, Alexandria, VA, Jan. 2001.
2. Kelly Eakin and Ahmad Faruqui, Pricing Retail Electricity: Making Money Selling a Commodity, in PRICING IN COMPETITIVE ELECTRICITY MARKETS (Faruqui and Eakin, eds., Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000).
3. Supra note 1, chap. 4.
4. Eric Hirst and Brendan Kirby, Unbundling Generation and Transmission Services for Competitive Electricity Markets: Examining Ancillary Services, NRRI 98-05, National Regulatory Research Institute, Columbus, OH, Jan. 1998.
5. Supra note 1, chap. 3.
6. Bruce Radford, Price Cap Follies, PUB. UTIL. FORTNIGHTLY, Aug. 2000, at 4-6.
7. California Independent System Operator, Market Participating Load Technical Standard for Summer 2000, Folsom, CA, Feb. 24, 2000.
8. U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Order Directing Remedies for California Wholesale Electric Markets, Docket Nos. EL00-95-000 et al., Washington, DC, Dec. 15, 2000.
9. PUCs might require all large consumers (e.g., with demands greater than 20 kW) to have interval meters. Such meters permit large customers to respond to dynamic pricing and load-reduction programs and provide a strong incentive to their LSE to manage the timing of their electricity use.
10. Frank A. Wolak, Report on Redesign of California Real-Time Energy and Ancillary Services Markets, Market Surveillance Committee of the California Independent System Operator, Folsom, CA, Oct. 18,1999, at 91.
11. Pam Boschee, Puget Sound Energy Scores High in Service Quality While Positioning for Solid Growth, ELEC. LIGHT & POWER, Sept. 2000, at 18.
12. Paul Gromer, Competition Comes to Metering: Regulatory Debates and Decisions, EIC-5, E Source, Boulder, CO, May 1999, at 1.
13. William B. Causey, Waiting for the Call, ELEC. PERSPECTIVES, Jan./Feb. 1999, at 24.
14. Frank A. Wolak, Robert Nordhaus, and Carl Shapiro, An Analysis of the June 2000 Price Spikes in the California ISO's Energy and Ancillary Services Markets, Market Surveillance Committee, California Independent System Operator, Folsom, CA, Sept. 6, 2000, at 14.
15. Supra note 1, chap. 5.