However, if the original owner previously sold usage rights to another party, that contract must be honored. My guess is that no injunctions will be granted, so everybody will have to proceed as if the Order were final, and before these issues wind their way through the courts, new federal legislation will have made most of the protests moot. Grumpy FERC staffers claim that was to pay for all the midnight oil burned, but it is more likely the result of the lack of energy efficiency in FERC's grand new edifice at 888 First Street near Union station. The ISO cannot become Zeus on Mount Olympus answering to no mere mortal and dallying in our lives at its whims. More importantly, there is a broad recognition that reliable grid operation in a competitive word simply requires a neutral traffic cop analogous to an air traffic controller.
Competition stifles communication between competitors.
This was, in my opinion, the principal underlying cause of last summer's Western blackouts. Resolution of these issues are important, not only to transmission owners and market participants, but also to those who aspire to speak for the public interest. There will be no forum to even discuss our issues. In our zeal to ensure that the vertically integrated monopoly is no longer in control as a condition for loosening regulatory constraints, the ISO cannot become Zeus on Mount Olympus answering to no mere mortal and dallying in our lives at its whim. Yet, somehow, most people do not trust a jaded staffer burning the midnight oil on the eleventh floor of 888 First Street in Washington DC poring over matter 1001 of his 81st rate case of the year to protect my interests.