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California Current is a weekly energy policy news service published by my friends and colleagues, Bill Kelly, J.A. Savage and Lizzie McCarthy.

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I've been a more-or-less steady contributor to Current since it began (as California Energy Circuit). Look here for my most recent contributions, and below for the archive.

• "Quebec to Join CA in Carbon Allowance Auction" January 20, 2012
• "Why the Western Climate Initiative Matters" December 9, 2011
• "Public Goods and Political Control" September 2, 2011

• "Direct Access Revival Meeting" July 15, 2011
• "Innovating Energy Innovation" June 24, 2011
• "PG&E: Crisis Management or Management Crisis?" April 15, 2011
• "The 33 Percent Solution" March 4, 2011
• "The Clean Tech/Regulatory Nexus" February 16, 2011
• "CPUC Leftovers" Dec. 30, 2010

 

Here are some of my columns carried in California Energy Circuit from 2004 to 2009:

• "Red States, Blue States, Green States!" Nov. 2, 2007
• "Cafe Oy Vez!" Aug. 3, 2007
• "Transmission Black Sheep" July 20, 2007
• "DC Energy Frenzy is Just the Beginning" June 22, 2007
• "Corridors Outside the Corridor" May 11, 2007
• "Echo Chamber" May 4, 2007
• "And Promises to Keep..." April 20, 2007
• "California CarbonDollars" Mar. 30, 2007
• "What's All This Going to Cost?" Mar. 23, 2007
• "The Cost of Doing Good Things" Mar. 9, 2007
• "Bringing to Light the Hidden Costs of Reliability" Mar. 2, 2007
• "Crossing Wires: Sunrise Powerlink Alternatives" Feb. 9, 2007
• "Money by Wire: Sunrise Powerlink Economics" Feb. 2, 2007
• "Measures of Success" Dec. 15, 2006
• "Purity Control" Dec. 1, 2006
• "The Revenge of San Francisco Values" Nov. 9, 2006
• "Dog's Nose in the Cat's Door" Oct. 27, 2006
• "The Evolution of Energy Markets, Part II" Oct. 13, 2006
• "The Evolving Energy Market, Part I" Oct. 6, 2006
• "Intersecting Circles" Sept. 29, 2006
• "Make It So?" Sept. 22, 2006
• "FERC's New Faces" Sept. 15, 2006
• "Decarbonation" Sept. 1, 2006
• "Can Palo Verde Stage Another Comeback?" August 25, 2006
• "Mid-Summer Course Corrections" August 18, 2006
• "Top-Down Transmission Won't Get Support" August 11, 2006
• "Direct Access: Has the Time Come Again?" August 4, 2006
• "An Even Better Idea" July 21, 2006
• "Holding Patterns" July 14, 2006
• "FERC's New Cop on the Energy Beat" July 7, 2006
• "Goodnight, Mohave. Good Riddance" June 23, 2006
• "The Curious Transformation of AB 457" June 16, 2006
• "The Sun in NASDAQ" June 2, 2006
• "Fear and Loathing on the National Energy Corridors" May 26, 2006
• "Sounds of Hunters Point Silence" May 19, 2006
• "Electric Utilities' Perverse Relationship to Bullish Markets" May 12, 2006
• "Art Rosenfeld's Birthday Gift to Us All" May 5, 2006
• "What If Restructuring Worked?" January 13, 2006
• "Adding Environmental Insult to Ecological Injury" October 14, 2005
• "Peter (Darbee's) Principles" February 11, 2005
• "That Was Then, This Is Now...Um, Now!" September 10, 2004

All reprints used with permission. Original publication Copyright 2004-2011 California Current.

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