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The role of demand underscheduling in the California energy crisis
2004
37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2004. Proceedings of the
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The paper concludes that the silent initiator of the California crisis was the economically rational, but structurally destabilizing, bidding behavior of PG&E in their effort to shift purchased energy ...
The lack of demand response to rapidly increasing prices in the California electricity market in 2000 and early 2001 has been identified as one significant factor in the descent of that market into dysfunction ...
The objective of this paper is to analyze the effects of PG&E's load underscheduling on spot market prices and, ultimately, the role of this behavior in the failure of the California electricity market ...
doi:10.1109/hicss.2004.1265170
dblp:conf/hicss/HausmanT04
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California's Electricity Crisis
2001
Oxford review of economic policy
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to play an active role in energy markets and through forward contracts led to numerous problems well before the more visible meltdown that began in May 2000. ...
There was a significant drop in electricity demand in California during the summer of 2001.
the average demand in the CAISO for the first ten months of 2000 and 2001. ...
doi:10.1093/oxrep/17.3.365
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A Public Utility's Obligation to Serve: Saber or Double-Edged Sword?
2004
Electricity Journal
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In a recent case the CPUC addressed the utilities' roles in assuring reliability of service with respect to energy procurement. ...
, they never were called upon to help their subsidiary electric utilities meet the financial demands of the energy crisis. ...
doi:10.1016/j.tej.2004.10.009
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Enron and the California Energy Crisis: The Role of Networks in Enabling Organizational Corruption
2021
Business History Review
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We provide an analytically structured history of Enron's involvement in the California energy crisis, exploring its emergence as a corrupt organization and its use of an interorganizational network to ...
Specifically, we show how Enron combined resources from partner firms with its own capabilities, manipulating the energy market and capitalizing on the crisis. ...
the California energy crisis. ...
doi:10.1017/s0007680521001008
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Ex ante and ex post designs for electric market mitigation: past and present experience and lessons from California
2003
36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2003. Proceedings of the
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Restructuring in electric power sectors ...
of decreasing demand could have prevented the escalation of the crisis. ...
Federal Intervention in the California Market
Overview Along with all the State agencies and the IOUs, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has played a major role arguably both on the positive ...
doi:10.1109/hicss.2003.1173870
dblp:conf/hicss/TaborsC03
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Can Energy Markets be Trusted? The Effect of the Rise and Fall of Enron on Energy Markets
2003
Social Science Research Network
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This article looks at Enron's role in the creation of these markets; the role of energy trading in the California crisis; the fall-out from the Enron scandal and the California-related investigations; ...
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Under role in California's energy crisis. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.471942
fatcat:457s6mr7lvczrdtb4ejdbvjw34
Diagnosing unilateral market power in electricity reserves market
2008
Journal of Energy Markets
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We use information released during the investigation of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001 by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to diagnose allocative inefficiencies in the state's ...
Matthew Barmack provided us with invaluable information related to the material released in the aftermath of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission investigation of the events of 2000 and 2001. ...
As a result, the CALPX DA market clearing quantities represent a fraction of the total load schedules. 10 The information released during the FERC investigation of the California electricity crisis in ...
doi:10.21314/jem.2008.001
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Interface Between Engineering and Market Operations in Restructured Electricity Systems
2005
Proceedings of the IEEE
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We outline ways that engineering practices developed in the era of vertically integrated utilities might be adapted to the wholesale markets introduced since restructuring began in 1998 in the United States ...
We examine the impact of wholesale markets on operations of the bulk power system and elaborate some basic implications of engineering practices for designs of wholesale markets. ...
Must-offer obligations have been increasingly used in the United States after the California energy crisis. ...
doi:10.1109/jproc.2005.857491
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Institutional or structural: lessons from international electricity sector reforms
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The Economics of Contracts
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are capped), provided some distributors with the incentives to bring down their costs by underscheduling demand in the day ahead market. ...
To a large extent, therefore, the foundations of the Californian energy crisis were struck in the political logic that shaped the initial restructuring legislation of 1996. ...
doi:10.1017/cbo9780511613807.025
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