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From: Gigi Ransom <gigir1829@yahoo.com>
To: dcdonutlovers <dcdonutlovers@gmail.com>; "Brookland@yahoogroups.com" <Brookland@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2012 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Brookland] Re: Pepco Ideas & Generation
From: Gigi Ransom <gigir1829@yahoo.com>
To: dcdonutlovers <dcdonutlovers@gmail.com>; "Brookland@yahoogroups.com" <Brookland@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2012 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Brookland] Re: Pepco Ideas & Generation
Been awhile seen I checked this yahoo account. Earlier this week I shared the Shaw Consultants Intl study of the feasibility and reliability of undergrounding DC's Electric Distribution Lines on the W5 listservs. Do't know if it was shared to this list so here it is. dcdonutlovers is right about letting our emotions get the best of us while working to find solutions to storm related power outages.
As I read discussions about solar panels and other alternatives, it is my understanding that there is still some kind of connection to Pepco, fee they collect. Clarity from someone about if this is true would be helpful. There was also a news report last night on an area in Quince Orchards, MD that was still without power from the 6/29 storm. Their lines are underground, fuse blown. Seems at least 3x crews were sent to their area to restore power but they were overhead line crews, not underground crews. So there seems to be a need for more underground crews. How is this issue addressed at the Roundtable 7/13/12?
Can the moderator contact me directly at gigifor5c12@yahoo.com to tell me how to add this e-account to the Brookland list?
Gigi Ransom
From: dcdonutlovers <dcdonutlovers@gmail.com>
To: Brookland@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 6, 2012 3:12 PM
Subject: [Brookland] Re: Pepco Ideas & Generation
To: Brookland@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 6, 2012 3:12 PM
Subject: [Brookland] Re: Pepco Ideas & Generation
Actually, Pepco's parent - PHI sold the last of it's generation plants to Calpine in 2010, so they do not own any generation assets - http://www.pepcoholdings.com/about/news/archives/2010/article.aspx?cid=1405
Calpine and several other companies are what we call merchant power generators meaning they in general operate and sell power wholesale. The trend in the power business has been fewer and fewer fully vertically integrated power companies. Constellation's recent merger with Exelon is one notable exception.
Pepco purchases power from a variety of companies through PPAs although there is an unregulated subsidiary of the parent company that engages in cross-border, i.e. international ownership of assets.
I'm not defending Pepco's response, but I want to ensure that before we operate on our emotion we understand the nuances of a regulated utility that make it operate differently. It isn't just the regulation, but the fact that it is a regulated monopoly that makes the rules and regulations function separately.
-Dee
--- In mailto:Brookland%40yahoogroups.com, Kathy <cooperator@...> wrote:
>
> My recollection is that Pepco was not allowed to divest itself of
> ownership of all of its power generation plants, but it chose to get out
> of the business of generating power anyway, so it contracted out
> operation of the plants it still owns to another out-of-state power company.
>
> --Kathy Sinzinger
Calpine and several other companies are what we call merchant power generators meaning they in general operate and sell power wholesale. The trend in the power business has been fewer and fewer fully vertically integrated power companies. Constellation's recent merger with Exelon is one notable exception.
Pepco purchases power from a variety of companies through PPAs although there is an unregulated subsidiary of the parent company that engages in cross-border, i.e. international ownership of assets.
I'm not defending Pepco's response, but I want to ensure that before we operate on our emotion we understand the nuances of a regulated utility that make it operate differently. It isn't just the regulation, but the fact that it is a regulated monopoly that makes the rules and regulations function separately.
-Dee
--- In mailto:Brookland%40yahoogroups.com, Kathy <cooperator@...> wrote:
>
> My recollection is that Pepco was not allowed to divest itself of
> ownership of all of its power generation plants, but it chose to get out
> of the business of generating power anyway, so it contracted out
> operation of the plants it still owns to another out-of-state power company.
>
> --Kathy Sinzinger
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