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February
Former ERCOT officials indicted - The Dallas Morning News - 2-01-2005
January 2005
D.C. Circuit Strikes Down FERC’s Approval of NYISO’s AMP - Foster’s -
1-21-2004
Cheaper Energy Is a Shared Goal: Chambers of Commerce, Other Groups Are Finding Savings Collectively- Times Union - 1-07-2005
Up Went the Manhole Cover, Down Came the Glass - NY Times -
1-07-2005
Energy Taxes Reduced To Protect New York Jobs- Fulton Daily News -
1-5-2005
BPL, Wireless Systems Rural Options for Broadband? - Ithaca Journal -
1-5-2004
E-lectric Avenue: To Log On, New Yorkers May Soon Plug In - New York Post - 1-2-2005
December
Future Shock: Electric Bills Rising; Pro-Competition Plan Will Zap Some Customers - Boston Herald - 12-30-2004
Critics of Texas’ Switch To Electric Competition See Few Benefits - Dallas Morning News - 12-30-2004
Pennsylvania Utility Plan Typifies Pattern of Optimism- Dallas Morning News - 12-30-2004
Texas Utility Panel Report Suggests Higher Fines Against Electric Providers- Houston Chronicle - 12-30-2004
Clock Is Ticking to 'Voice Your Choice' for Electricity - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle - 12-29-2004
Governor Pataki calls for additional heating assistance - IBL News -
12-21-2004
Negotiations for cable pact grind to a halt - The Troy Record -
12-21-2004
Energy Fair Supplies Some Answers as Deadline Nears - Democrat & Chronicle - 12-20-2004
US fails in bid to kill off Kyoto process - The Independent - UK - 12-19-2004
Average Residential Revenue Per kWh Sold (Cents) - New York Electric Utilities 1992- 2003 - PULP - 12-17-2004
The Deregulation Myth - Toledo Blade Editorial - 12-16-2004
Green Island - Power Authority Officials Are Moving Forward with Plans to Double the Energy Output as a Way to Meet the Future Needs of a Growing Community - Troy Record - 12-17-2004
Officials Discuss Public Power: Committee Looking into Bringing Idea to Otsego County - Oneonta Star - 12-16-2004
PSC Order Denying Petitions for Rehearing Regarding Hedged POLR Service - 12- 15-2004
PULP Statement of Opposition to Proposed Con Edison Electric Rate Settlement -12-15-2004
Con Edison Fined for Violations at Fatal Blast Site - The Journal News - 12-15-2004
State to Help with Utility Choosing - PSC Slates 2 Meetings to Lay out Residential Consumers' Options - Democrat & Chronicle - 12-15-2004
2 worker deaths costly to Con Ed - Daily News- 12-15-2004
Con Ed Safety Zapped - NY Post - 12-15-2004
Big New Trouble for Con Edison- WABC News - 12-14-2004
Resumes coming in for authority seats - Auburn's city manager will appoint seven to serve on new power agency - Post Standard - 12-14-2004
FiberNet Inks Deal to Acquire Con Edison Communications - Phone + -
02-13-2004
Aid isn't keeping up with heating costs and people seeking help- Knight Ridder Newspapers - 12-12-2004
Ohio Retail Electricity Competition: Auction Fizzles; Toledo, Ohio Edison Rates Prevail - The Blade, Toledo, Ohio - 12-10-2004
Texas PUC to Probe TXU Bids: Company Denies Wrongdoing- CBS MarketWatch - 12-09-2004
Few Save on Natural Gas: Cub – Competition Fails to Cut Customers' Bills, Study Says - Chicago Tribune - 12-10-2004
Consumers Pay Higher Gas Bills With Natural Gas Competition:
CUB Study Documents Consumer Losses - CUB Press Release 12/9/04
CUB Study Methodology for Comparing Competitive Natural Gas
Service
APPA Paper -- "Restructuring at the Crossroads - FERC Electric Policy Reconsidered" - December 2004
Van Doren and Taylor, "Rethinking Electricity Restructuring," Policy Analysis, Cato Institute Nov. 30, 2004.
"An Expensive Experiment: RTO Dollars and Sense - Financial Data Raises Doubts About Whether Deregulation Benefits Outweigh Costs" - Fortnightly -
12- 2004
$100,000 paid to nonprofit to resolve slamming complaint - Indianapolis Star - 12-09-2004
Transmission line catches fire at East River electrical plant - Associated Press - 12-08-2004
Merchant Power Plant Plans Go Flat - Baton Rouge Advocate - 12-07-2004
States Struggle to Help Poor Pay Winter Heating Bills - Stateline - 12-07-2004
Massachusetts regulators plan utility discounts for poor - The Boston Globe - 12-06-2004
Wind proposal stirs controversy - Power generation plan draws debate in Herkimer County - Utica Observer Dispatch - 12-06-2004
State of the Hudson: Impact of River Cleanup Felt Around the Nation- Poughkeepsie Journal - 12-05-2004
Fraud Allegedly Plagues Energy Trading- Associated Press - 12-05-2004
Poor May Get Discounted Electric Bills under New Texas Bill - Houston Chronicle - 12-03-2004
El Paso: 'Typo' Led to Gas-price Surge - The Associated Press - 12-03-2004
Con Edison Trims Rate Hike Request - The Journal News - 12-03-2004
PSC Creates Energy Supply Guide: Bills from Utilities Can Be Compared - Buffalo News - 12-02-2004
State to offer help with electricity choice - Democrat & Chronicle - 12-02-2004:
Heating Bills To Skyrocket - Buffalo News - 12-02-2004
Legislation affects natural gas terminal - Newsday - 12-01-2004
November
Congress OKs Extra $300M in Heating-fuel Aid - Staten Island Advance -
11-30-2004
Rosebank Power Plant Cited - Staten Island Advance - 11-29-2004
Twelve-Step Program for Recovery from Addiction to Electricity Market Ideology - Carl Wood - 11-29-2004
New York Stories: Don't Mock the Lawsuit Culture - The Independent, UK - 11-28-2004
Turkey Day in Bronx Zapped by Blackout - NY Daily News - 11-26-2004
Energy required to Comparison-shop - Post-Standard Editorial - 11-26-2004
Karben calls on Con Ed to insulate ratepayers from settlement costs - Mid-Hudson News - November 24, 2004
Utility Will Pay $7.2 Million in Woman's Electrocution - NY Times - 11-24-2004
Con Ed Settles with Dead Woman's Family- Daily News - 11-24-2004
Cable could be answer to grid issues - Associated Press - 11-23-2004
D.C. Regulators Should Counter PEPCO’s Rate Hikes by Halting Disastrous Deregulation Experiment - Public Citizen Urges the Re-Purchase of PEPCO’s Power Plants - 11-22-2004
More Wind Farms Envisioned for Northern New York - Watertown Daily Times - 11-22-2004
Congress Adds $300 Mln for Heat Bills of Poor - Reuters - 11-22-2004
Between Hope and Hard Times: New York's Working Families in Economic Distress, November, 2004
"New York has many low-income working families, and their ranks are growing. Of New York’s working families, 26.5 percent—more than one in four—are low-income, and 7.5 percent are under the poverty line. Making it even harder on low-income residents, New York State has the fifth highest average cost of living in the country.
Easy Broadband -- And Smarter Power: Web Access from Wall Outlets Is on the Way, and Utilities See Even More on the Horizon- Business Week-
11-22-2004
Upstate Bleeding Manufacturing Jobs - Ottaway News Service - 11-22-2004
Cold Facts on Heating Aid - Daily News - 11-18-2004
Sempra Unit Rigged Gas Prices, CAPUC Says Finding still requires vote of full commission - San Diego Union-Tribune - 11-17-2004
Users Rap High Natural-gas Prices Rising Cost of Natural Gas - Baton Rouge Advocate - 11-17-2004
Agency Reports Homelessness on Rise - Olean Times Herald -
11-17-2004
PSC Declaratory Ruling Denies NIMO Request for "Clarifications" of Deposit Rules - 11/10/04
Oil, Vey! Heating Bills May Rise 37% - NY Daily News - 11-10-2004
Make a Choice, RG&E Urges - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle - 11-09-2004
More Applicants Seeking Fuel Assistance this Winter - Associated Press -
11-05-2004
Ex-lawmaker claims deregulation plan was ruse - Gazette Star Bureau -
11-04-2004
Auburn Gains Power, Sennett a Park - Auburn Citizen - 11-04-2004
Gas Companies must Pay Full Royalties: Under Ny Court Ruling, Landowners Without Leases Still Benefit If Gas Found - Corning Star Gazette - 11-04-2004
Bill would revamp utility law; Proposals could alter consumer provisions -The Harrisburg Patriot-11-03-2004
Energized Dynegy in Buying Mode: $1 Billion Deal for Power Plants Points to Recovery - Houston Chronicle - 11-02-2004
Power Authority Scraps Lewiston Pump Plant Upgrade - Buffalo News -
11-01-2004
Power Plan on the Line - Auburn Citizen - 11-1-2004
Nimo Cracks Down, Collecting Old Debts - Post Standard - 11-01-2004
October
Petrochemical manufacturer Huntsman renews call for natural gas- price probe - Odessa American - 10-28-2004
Plugging Into the Net, Through the Humble Wall Outlet - NY Times -
10-28-2004
Lawsuit Charges Conspiracy Drove Deregulation- The Associated Press -
10-27-2004
Burbs: Heating oil in Westchester hits record high - The Journal News -
10-27-2004
Heating Oil, Gas Prices Take Another Leap - Newsday - 10-26-2004
Utilities Take Pass on Offering Broadband - The Boston Globe - 10-25-2004
Wiring Power Lines for Broadband Access - NY Times - 10-21-2004
Westchester Home-heating Oil Costs Climb to Record High - The Journal News - 10-21-2004
Regional heating oil prices take another jump - Newsday - 10-21-2004
City Wants to Buy its Own Power - The Auburn Citizen - 10-21-2004
Low Voltage Electrocution: A Review of Hazards Associated with Exposure to Low Voltages- 10-20-2004
Pelosi, Western Democrats Urge Bush to Repudiate FERC, Supply Refunds to Energy Consumers in California, Other Western States - PR Newswire -
10-18-2004
NiMo, Union Agree On Pact - Post Standard - 10-17-2004
Union Says No To Offer By NiMo - Daily Gazette - 10-16-2004
Mike Inks 'Jodie's Law vs. Con Ed - NY Post - 10-15-2004
Heating Oil Costs Hit Record Averages - Newsday - 10-15-2004
Inmate advocates want changes to prison-phone plan - Plattsburg Press Republican - 10-15-2004
F.C.C. Clears Internet Access by Power Lines - NY Times - 10-15-2004
15 Escape Gas Blast - Daily News - 10-14-2004
Blast Injures Nine Workers at Car Dealer in Suffolk - NY Times - 10-13-2004
Deadly threat hides in Con Ed cable fires - Daily News - 10-08-2004
NYSEG to raise power rate: Fixed-rate plan to increase 15% for residential users - Press & Sun Bulletin - 10-05-2004
Comments to PSC in Response to Proposal for Electric Safety Performance Standards - 10-04-2004
Comments of Public Utility Law Project
Comments of Local 1-2
Comments of the City of New York
Internet Grants to Schools Halted as the F.C.C. Tightens the Rules - NY Times - 10-04-2004
Area firm saves money for clients by uncovering utility overcharges - Buffalo News - 10-04-2004
National Fuel Felt It Deserved Little Rate Hike - Buffalo News - 10-03-2004
September
Heating Oil Prices Soaring - Newsday - 09-30-2004
LIPA raising rates - Newsday - 09-30-2004
Renewable Power Plan Comes with Concerns: Energy Producers Fear Problems Relying on Wind, Sun, Water - Times Union - 09-30-2004
L.I. Power Authority Plans Cable Projects - NY Times - 09-29-2004
Council Amps Up Repair On Con Ed 'Deathtraps' - NY Post - 09-29-2004
NY PSC Order Adopting Renewables Portfolio Standard -
09-24-2004
GAS AND STEAM RATES TO INCREASE - NY Times - 09-27-2004
Central Hudson's natural gas prices going up 25% - Poughkeepsie Journal - 09-24-2004
State to Rely More on Renewable Energy Sources - Associated Press -
09-23-2004
PSC Votes to Approve Consolidated Edison Gas and Steam Rate Plans -- Plans Limit Increases, Provide for Maintenance and Expansion of Delivery Facilities, Create Consumer Benefit Programs - PSC Press Release - 09-22-2004
Using The City's Lampposts For Cell Phones and Wireless Computers - Gotham Gazette - September, 2004
State Regulators Are Backing Pataki's Clean-Energy Goals - NY Times- 09-23-2004
Nimo Warns Next Deep Freeze Will Require Deeper Pockets -- Confluence of Demand and Supply to Cause Double-digit Increase in Home Heating Bills for Gas and Oil - Times Union - 09-17-2004
One year later, still no word on plant's future - S.I. Advance - 09-14-2004
The threat beneath our city’s streets - Daily News - 09-13-2004
FERC’s rejection of billions for state to be reconsidered - San Diego Union Tribune - 09-10-2004
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Rejects FERC Limitation on Refunds of Unreasonable Market Based Rates and Charges - 09-09-2004
Panel OKs Con Ed Bill - Daily News - 09-09-2004
County want Mirant to pay bill - The Journal News - 09-09-2004
Electricity competition is bad for your pocket - University of Sussex Press Office - 09-08-2004
Officials Say Proposed Rules for Gas Leaks Are Too Lax - NY Times -
09-08-2004
Study Sees 44,000 Radiation Deaths - The Journal News - 09-08-2004
A Phone Venture: Calling All Prisoners - NY Times - 09-05-2004
PULP joins with other Consumer Advocates to Ask D.C. Circuit Court to Reverse “Market-Based Rates” Orders as Unauthorized by the Federal Power Act - Petition for review of “Supply Margin Assessment” Orders - 09-03-2004
PUC may craft state’s energy policy, not legislature or governor -
Silcone Valley Business Journel - 09-03-2004
August
National Fuel Seeks Rate Hike - Buffalo News - 08-31-04
PUHCA: Lawmakers Accuse SEC of Lax Oversight - PowerMarketers Industry Publications - 08-22-2004
Con Ed Tattoo - NY Post - 8/15/2004
Remember last year's big blackout? Get ready for another one - Toronto Gloge & Mail - 08-14-2004
Studies show command failures helped fuel blackout - Journal Register - 08-14-2004
Utility's tax refund triggers debate - Poughkeepsie Journal - 08-12-2004
Hill, Chuck: Fix the grid - NY Daily News - 08-11-2004
We're Still in the Dark: A Year after the Massive Blackout, National Grid Standards Not Yet Formed - Times Union - 08-10-2004
Albany Budget Near, but Pataki's Intentions Are Unclear - NY Times - 08-10-2004
Blackouts Are Inevitable: Coping, Not Prevention, Should Be the Primary Goal - Washington Post - 08-10-2004
Blackouts: The Power Grid Is Too Sensitive for Its Own Good - NY Times - 08-10-2004
Year after Blackout, Few New Safeguards in Place - NY Daily News -
08-10-2004
Aug. 14 Blackout Revisited - Journal News Editorial, 08-09-2004
July
Resisting a Utility's Bid to Add Power to Power Lines - NY Times -
07-26-2004
Industry, FERC bristle as challenges mount to overall move to competition - Electric Utility Week - 07-26-2004
Statement of Issues in D.C. Circuit Court case challenging FERC's claim of authority to allow market-based rates - 08-20-2004
Consumer Groups Attack Legal Basis of FERC's Deregulation Program - Public Citizen - 08-19-2004
Consumer Advocates Challenge FERC "Market-Based Rate" Orders as Unauthorized by the Federal Power Act - 07-16-2004
Request for Rehearing of FERC Market Power Order in Case
PL02-8-000 by NM Attorney General, CO Office of Consumer
Counsel, UT Committee of Consumer Services, RI Attorney
General, and RI Division of Public Utilities and RI Division of
Public Utilities and Carriers - 05-14-2004
PULP Joins in Petition For Rehearing Challenging FERC
Market-Based Rates and Manipulation Conditions - 12-18-03
May The FERC Rely On Markets To Set Electric Rates?
Energy Law Journal - 06-2003
The Dark Side of Con Ed - NY Daily News Editorial - 07-16-2004
Streetlights Slow to Be Fixed; N.Y.C. Report Cites Growing Con Ed Backlog - Northern New Jersey Record - 07-15-2004
City: Con Edison faces huge repair backlog - Newsday - 07-14-2004
Public Vote on Public Power - Post Standard - 07-14-2004
New York Asks, Where's Con Ed When Lights Go Out? - NY Times - 07-14-2004
Comments of City of New York in Response to
Con Edison “Stray Voltage” Report - 07-09-2004
Consolidated Edison Supplemental Stray Voltage Report
(Appendix Omitted) 05-10-2004
Con Edison Second Supplemental Stray Voltage Report
05-21- 2004
Stray Voltage Report of Consolidated Edison
(Appendices Omitted) - 04-19-2004
Con Edison Maintenance Program Budgets &
Expenses 2000 - 2003 - PULP - 2-26-2004
Update with 2003 Maintenance Programs
Budget and Expenditures - 05-25-2004
Con Edison Maintenance Programs - Budgets & Actual
Expenditures - 7-14-2004
Manhatten 2000 - 2003
Bronx-Westchester - 2000 - 2003
Brooklyn-Queens - 2000 - 2003
Staten Island - 2000 - 2003
County Moving Ahead on Low-Cost Power Program - Fulton Daily News - 07-13-2004
Lessons Learned on '03 Blackout, Industry Says - Boston Globe -
07-12-2004
In Search of New Power, City Looks Underwater - NY Times - 07-10-2004
Meeting Wind Resistance: Turbine Projects in WNY are at a Standstill Due to Concerns Over Risk to Birds - Buffalo News - 7/8/04
Mirant, Ramapo Cut Tax Deal - The Journal News - 07-08-2004
Tapping Into the Death Star : How Carl Pechman and a Team of Santa Cruz-based Transcribers Worked Tirelessly to Get the Now-infamous Enron Tapes into the Public Domain. - Metro Newspapers - Santa Cruz -
07-07-2004
June
Energy Park Backing Uncertain - Times Union - 06-30-2004
Municipal Utility Touted as a Money Saver - Buffalo News - 06-30-2004
Mayor's energy plans advance - The Auburn Citizen - 06-29-2004
AT&T to pay fine, refunds over wrong bills - Post Standard - 06-29-2004
Scenario that knocked out 4,800 MW in West had never been studied by reliability officials - Platts, 06-29-2004
Con Edison worker dies of blast injuries - Journal News - 06-28-2004
Con Edison strike averted - Journal News - 06-28-2004
NY, Conn. Reach Deal to Activate Cable - Newsday - 06-25-2004
Tioga Landowners Mull Drilling Deal - Gannett New Service - 06-25-2004
Digging deeper into the Texas Pacific deal - Oregonian - 06-22-2004
Court Ruling Limits FERC's Power: Federal Regulator Exceeded Its Authority in California During 2001 Energy Crisis - The Wall Street Journal- 06-22-2004
August Blackout Showed Fractured System - Ithaca Journal - 06-21-2004
Alternative-Energy Quest Is Blocked by a 1953 Law-NY Times - 06-21-2004
Tight Energy Supply Predicted - Newsday - 06-17-2004
Energy Deregulation Changing Some Price Rules: Nimo Holds Seminar to Guide Commercial Users on Keeping Costs Stable - Times Union - 06-17-2004
Measure Seeks to End Impasse on Power Plant Siting Statute: Bill Is Product of Talks Between Power Producers, Environmental Group - Times Union - 06-16-2004
Cell phone users beware! - Staten Island Advance - 06-15-2004
Enron’s Awesome Cynicism - NY Times - 06-06-2004
LIPA Fuel Surcharge Starts Next Week- Newsday - 06-05-2004
May
New York Utilities Recall '03 Blackout With Fingers Crossed - NY Times -
05-31-2004
Reliant to sell hydro plants - The Post Standard - 05-27-2004
Energy projects unveiled - Times Union - May 27, 2004
39 Ocean Windmills Are Planned to Expand Power on L.I.- NY Times - 05-26-2004
What if you deregulated a market, and no one cared?- Salon - 05-24-2004
Toronto Company to Buy Upstate Power Plants: Brascan Corp. To Pay $900 Million to Reliant Energy for 71 Hydroelectric Facilities -Times Union - 05-22-2004
'One major power failure away from crisis' - Newsday - 05-21-2004
Few Jumping at Chance for a Switch: Though Power Customers Can Change Suppliers, Most Are Deciding to Stay Put-Times Union - 05-21-2004
Vonage to Contest State's Ruling That It Is a Telephone Company - NY Times - 05-21-2004
Four States to Sue Power Plants :EPA Stopped Investigating Alleged Violations of Clean Air Act - Washington Post - 05-21-2004
VERIZON GETS $40 MILLION PENALTY - NY Times - 05-20-2004
Snohomish County, Wash., Utility Claims Tapes Reflect Enron Misdeeds - The Seattle Times - 05-19-2001
LIPA Chief, Conn. AG square off on Sound cable - Newsday - 05-19-2004
Con Ed in city phone bid - Daily News - 05-19-2004
Electric 'Pipeline' Clear - Journal News - 05-19-2004
Pols decry Conn. opposition to power cable - Newsday - 05-17-2004
Health Tip: Preserving Refrigerated Food in a Blackout - Forbes.com-
05-17-2004
Electric deregulation is moving very slowly - Poughkeepsie Journal - 05-17-2004
NRG Returns to Profit - Syracuse Post Standard - 05-17-2004
Request for Rehearing of FERC Market Power Order in Case PL02-8-000 by NM Attorney General, CO Office of Consumer Counsel, UT Committee of Consumer Services, RI Attorney General, and RI Division of Public Utilities and Carriers- 05-14-2004
Con Ed Workers To Vote On Strike - Newsday - 05-14-2004
New York Electric Grid Is Ready for Summer Heat, Report Says - NY Times - 05-14-2004
Metro power petering out - Daily News - 05-14-2004
Keeping current on electric troubles- NY Grid Operators Can detect When Other Systems Are Failing - Newsday - 05-14-2004
Power Plant Zaps Bottom Line: Audit Finds Project Over by $275M - Daily News - 05-14-2004
Poor Planning at Power Authority Increased Projected Costs By $275 Million at Queens Power Plant - OSC Press Release - 05-14-2004
State Authority to Stop Building Power Plants - Times Union - 05-13-2004
Power Plant Estimate Was Off by $275 Million, Hevesi Says - NY Times -
05-13-2004
Plant takes its place on power grid - Times Union - 05-12-2004
LIPA: Cable shutoff could cost $38M - Newsday - 05-12-2004
Cellphone Tax Produces Little for Cellphones - NY Times - 05-10-2004
A Question Still Unanswered: How Did the Blackout Happen?- NY Times - 05-10-2004
Price Rise Warning Amid Power Blackout Fears - PA News - 05-10-2004
Energy Secretary Orders the Cross-Sound Cable Turned Off- NY Times - 05-08-2004
As Energy Thieves Turn Crafty, Utility Turns Up Battle of Wits - NY Times - 05-05-2004
Power aplenty to the people this summer - Daily News - 05-05-2004
A reprieve for late payments - Newsday - 05-04-2004
Payments missing: Check-cashing, money-transfer unit leaves clients, including the city and utilities, literally at a loss for where millions of dollars have gone - Newsday - 05-04-2004
Status of New York Electric Utility Rate Plan - 05-04-2004
April
Con Ed files for rate hike - Crain’s - 4-30-2004
Pol: Con Ed payouts zap users - Daily News - 04-30-2004
Con Ed Settled 11 Shocking Suits Before E. Village Death - NY Post - 4-30-2004
Verizon might face PSC fines - Journal News - 04-29-2004
Dude, they're getting free PCs - Daily News - 04-29-2004
NASUCA Urges the FCC to Prohibit Carriers from Imposing Misleading and Deceptive Charges - MoFo Comm. Law Bulletin - 04-28-2004
Dog-walking New Yorkers Fear Electrocution - Reuters - 04-28-2004
Protesting Plant's Funding - Newsday - 04-28-2004
2003 Dip Called Blip in State's Natural Gas Output - Times Union - 04-28-2004
New jolt to plant fund plan - Bar association joins bond foes - Daily News - 04-28-2004
Utility Overcharges Cited: Energetix Clients Billed Too Much in April, State Says - Democrat & Chronicle - 04-24-2004
What’s Wrong with the Electric Grid - Industrial Physicist - 04-2003
Check Cashing Service Leaves Customers Hanging - Newsday - 04-23-2004
Con Edison, KeySpan End CashPoint Bill-Paying Service - Bloomberg News - 04-23-2004
HVCC Under its Own Power - Times Union - 04-22-2004
NASUCA Reply Comments in FCC Inmate Telephone Proceeding - 04-21-2004
PSC's Flynn details power challenges - Democrat & Chronicle - 04-21-2004
Deregulation also suspect in blackout - Cincinnati Enquirer - 04-21-2004
Missing Discounts, Hidden Revenues to the Phone Companies, Quintuple Taxation Are Just a Few of the Dirty, Little, Secrets of Phone Bills - TeleTruth - 04-21-2004
Astoria Plans Stir Power Play: Suit over Use of Liberty Bonds - Daily News - 04-20-2004
Pull Plug on Power Deal: Pols - NY Post - 04-19-2004-
Verizon To Add Internet Surcharge - NY Times - 04-14-2004
Utility paid chief $5.1 million - Democrat & Chronicle - 04-14-2004
Nimo to Refund Short-term Clients' Deposits: PSC Also Orders Utility to Pay Interest to Affected Customers - Times Union - 04-13-2004
ENERGY: Retirement frees ex-SCC official to speak on issues - Richmond Times Dispatch - 04-12-2004
Reliant unit, officials indicted for manipulation - Reuters - 04-08-2004
New York Grid Operator Forecasts Adequate Electricity Supplies - Associated Press - 04-08-2004
L.I. Utility Reconsiders Arrangement for Electricity - NY Times - 04-08-2004
LIPA: It’s All About Service - Newsday - 04-08-2004
Blackout Lessons - Times Union- 04-08-2004
Forestall Another Blackout: Don't Wait for the U.S. Energy Bill; Spin off Legislation Mandating Better Grid Management - Newsday-
04-08-2004
Preventing Future Blackouts - NY Journal News Editorial - 04-07-2004
New Jersey Urged To Adopt "Blackout" Reforms - 1010 WINS - 04-07-2004
LIPA Chief Says System May Go Private - Newsday - 04-07-2004
Darkness could fall again, says blackout probe - Daily News - 04-06-2004
New York Power Plant Project Hits Roadblock - Daily News - 04-05-2004
New York PSC Staff Backs O&R Kind of Market for State- GHI Markets -
04-05-2004
Final Report: Blackout Was Preventable - Newsday - 04-05-2004
Chapters 1-3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapters 7-10
Blackout Task Force Says Grid Overseer Needs More Independence - Bloomberg News - 04-05-2004
March
Consumer group wants carriers to end regulatory-related surcharges - Crains - 03-31-2004
ASSEMBLY PASSES PUBLIC UTILITY SAFETY BILL - Silver, Tonko Bill Seeks Annual Utility Inspections - 03-31-2004
Public Utility Reliability and Safety Inspection Act of 2004
- Bill Text - 03-31-2004
Bill targets Con Edison - NY Post - 03-31-2004
Fixed-Mobile “Intermodal” Competition in Telecommunications: Fact or Fiction? - Phoenix Center Policy Bulletin - 03-30-2004
NASUCA Petition Papers to FCC for Relief From Misleading Surcharges on Telephone Bills - 03-30-2004
Press Release - NASUCA Petitions FCC For Relief From Misleading Surcharges on Telephone Bills - 03-30-2004
PSC Order on NIMO Residential Security Deposits - 03-25-2004
"Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation shall, within 30 days of the date of this order, return with interest all security deposits it now holds which were collected under the lease-based policy discussed in this order."
PULP’s Motion to Intervene in Case 04-E-0160 - Proceeding on Motion of the Commission Investigating the Death of a Manhattan Pedestrian and Whether Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. Violated the Public Service Law - 03-24-2004
Charts of Con Edison Maintenance Programs Budget & Expenses 2000 - 2003
Con Ed Cites Record in Electrocution Report - NY Times - 03-12-2004
NASUCA Comments To FCC on Inmate Telephone Service - 3-10-2004
'Blackout Britain' warning over grid cash crisis - BBC - 03-10-2004
New York’s Grid Not at Fault in Blackout, State Board Says -NY Times -03-02-2004
Why Verizon may sell its Upstate lines - Post Standard - 03-01-2004
February
Con Ed Is Expected To Request Rate Increase - NY Times - 02-26-2004
LIGHT TESTS FLY BY NIGHT, UNION SAYS - Ny Post - 02-26-2004
Con Edison Maintenace Program Budgets and Expenses 2000 - 2003 - PULP - 02-26-2004
Cable Regulators Proposing Longer Franchising Options - NY Times - 02-23-2004
PSC Order Initiating Proceeding Investigating the Death of a Manhattan Pedestrian and Whether Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. Violated the Public Service Law - 02-11-2004
PSC Order Instituting Proceeding, Requiring Additional Testing and Any Necessary Repair and Report on Status of Electric System - 02-11-2004
Commission Will Consider Civil Penalty Action in Jodie Lane Case: Con Edison Ordered to Show Cause and to File Corrective Action Plan, PSC Press Release- 02-11-2004
PSC Votes to Adopt the Terms of a $137.5 Million Rate Relief Joint Proposal in Indian Point 2 Prudence Case - 02-11-2004
Trends in Con Edison Expenditures for Electric System Maintenance - 02-11-2004
What Really Caused the Blackout?, Power Engineers supporting Truth, 02-11-04
The Continuing Abuse Of Market Power By The Cable Industry: Rising Prices, Denial Of Consumer Choice, And Discriminatory Access To Content. Consumer Federation of America, February 2004
PSC Invites Additional Comments on Provider of Last Resort Responsibilities and Vision of Retail Utility Competition issued 01-27-2004 - 02-04-2004
Gas Bills Arriving This Month May Be Second Highest Ever-Buffalo News-02-04 2004
January
PSC Order On Con Edison Request to Defer WTC Restoration and Infrastructure Improvement Costs for Future Ratemaking Treatment- 01-30-2004
PSC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Implement Energy Consumer Protection Act of 2002 - 01-27-2004
Safety of Adding to Nuclear Plants; Capacity Is Questioned - NY Times - 01-26-2004
NRDC, PULP, et al., v. Department of Energy, __ F.3d __
(2d Cir. Jan. 13, 2004).
Court Voids A Bush Move On Energy - NY Times - 01-14-2004
Federal Court Rejects Energy Efficiency Rollback, NY AttorneyGeneral
Press Release - 01-13-2004
, NY Times
06-19-2001
- NRDC Press Release -
06-19-2001
NY Attorney
General Press Release, June 19, 2001
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