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This website was constructed by Robert Blohm.
Robert (Hewitt*) Blohm  email: rb112@columbia.edu
*family of The Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design of The Smithsonian Institution; the Abrahm S. Hewitt Memorial Building & the Abrahm S. Hewitt Society at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art; Hewitt Hall at the Naval War College; Hewitt Hall at Barnard College at Columbia University; Ringwood Manor (NJ); & Long Pond Ironworks State Park (Hewitt, NJ)
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McGill University
Interviewed on & on August 21, 2003
National Public Radio
Interview, September 2, 2003
Morning Feature [referring to "our expert witness"], December 3, 2004 Listen Transcript
Evening News, December 3, 2004
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Sunday Book Review Magazine   April 3, 2005   Critical review of the article
November 25, 2003
Television Interview, June 17, 2004
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TV program guest. Select date, then click--->
December 4, 2004    December 1, 2004
(Burlington, Vt.) Free PressDecember 4, 2004December 1, 2004
(Barrie-Montpellier,Vt.)Times-Argus December 5, 2004December 4, 2004December 1, 2004
Rutland (Vt.) Herald, December 5, 2004
WCAX, Channel 3, Burlington, Vt.   December 3, 2004   December 1, 2004
WRGB, Channel 6, Albany, NY   December 3, 2004   December 1, 2004
September 2003
October 2003

Technical Workshop on Competition and Reliability In North American Electrical Markets, sponsored by Canada-U.S. Power Outage Task Force, Toronto, September 28, 2005    En français

Comments by Robert Blohm Published in Response to the Federal Register Notice of Inquiry [FR doc. 04-16724] on the Designation of National Interest Transmission Bottlenecks (NIETB), September 7, 2004
 
Technical Conference to Seek Recommendations Concerning the August 14, 2003, Blackout and Preventing Further Blackouts, Toronto, January 9, 2004
Introductory session transcript    Plenary session transcript
 
Regulatory Bargaining and Public Law, by Jim Rossi, Cambridge University Press 2006, p. 5.
 
Arranged transmission of 1996 Malaysia blackout investigation documents to assist investigation of the cause of the August 14, 2003, Northeast US and Ontario blackout
 
Kompas [national newspaper], Jakarta (Indonesia), August 29, 2005 (about August 18th Indonesia blackout) Web Version English translation
Article cited and summarized in Republik Indonesia, Kajian Kebijakan Insentif Fiskal Untuk Mendorong Pertumbuhan Investasi di Sektor Ketenagalistrikan (Study of the Policy of Fiscal Incentives to Guide the Growth of Investment in the Electric Energy Sector), October 2005 Report following the August 18, 2005, Blackout, page 3.12 (page 45), & note 8, Jakarta English translation
 
Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC), US Department of Energy, Monthly Tele-Seminar: "Challenges for the Electric Power Sector in Supporting China's Economic Growth", co-discussed by Robert Blohm, February 6, 2007. (For audio-slide presentation and discussion click here and go to page 2, then click link in 2nd presentation box labeled "Electric Power Industry in China, Hui Ren, UW-Madison, North China Electric Power University") Announcement
 
Sino-Asian Oil & Gas Pipeline Projects Cooperation Forum, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC-PetroChina) [(Zhong guo Shi you Tian ran qi Ji tuan Gong si) 中国液化天然气行业发展国际论坛], Beijing, January 29-30, 2007.
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Chinese powerpointEnglish powerpoint
 
China Petrochemical Industry Forum, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC-PetroChina) [(Zhong guo Shi you Tian ran qi Ji tuan Gong si) 中国液化天然气行业发展国际论坛], Beijing, November 14-15, 2006 {Word-search "卜若柏" (Bu Ruo bai [Robert Blohm])}. ProgramMy powerpoint
 
China's LNG Industry Forum, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC-PetroChina) [(Zhong guo Shi you Tian ran qi Ji tuan Gong si) 中国液化天然气行业发展国际论坛], Beijing, July 25-26, 2006 {Word-search "卜若柏" (Bu Ruo bai [Robert Blohm])}. English programMy powerpoint
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International Petroleum Economics Monthly [国际石油经济月刊 (Guo ji Shi you Jing ji)], Beijing, August 2006, pages 12-18, published by the Chinese Petroleum Society (中国石油社会) and CNPC-Petro China [中国石油天然气集团公司 (Zhong guo Shi you Tian ran qi Ji tuan Gong si)]. English translation
- China Shipping Information Net [中国海运信息网 (Zhong guo Hai yun Xin xi Wang)], Shanghai. Web version of the International Petroleum Economics Monthly [国际石油经济月刊 (Guo ji Shi you Jing ji)] report
 
Second Annual China-US Business Forum, Great Hall of the People, Beijing, February 14-15, 2006
Pictures Article & Picture Article & Pictures Translation Program Speech
 
People's Daily [人民日报 (Ren min Ri bao)], Beijing (China), March 23, 2006, page 7 [by 卜若柏 (Bu Ruo bai [Robert Blohm])]. Web Version English original
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International Business Daily [国際商报 (Guo ji Shang Bao)], Beijing, March 24, 2006, page 6, published by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China. Web Version
-Chinese Academy of Social Sciences [中国社会科学院 (Zhong guo She hui Ke xue yuan)], Beijing.
 
China Daily [中國日报 (Zhong guo Ri bao)], Beijing (China)
November 4, 2006, page 4 [by Robert Blohm] Web Version
Republished by Ministry of Commerce, People's Republic of China
August 4, 2006, page 4 [by Robert Blohm] Web Version Supporting Lead House Editorial
Republished by
- Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Finance and Trade Economics [中国社会科学院财政与贸易经济研究所 (Zhong guo She hui Ke xue yuan Cai zheng Yu mao yi Jing ji Yan jiu suo)], Beijing
- China Center for Civil Law, Ren min (People's) University {中国民商法律网 (中国人民大学) [Zhong guo Min shang Fa lu Wang (Zhong guo Ren min Da xue)]}, Beijing
- Thomson Financial News
Referenced in China Daily, August 7, 2006Web Version
July 19, 2006, page 4 [by Robert Blohm] Web Version
June 13, 2006, page 4 [by Robert Blohm] Web Version
Republished by
- Xinhua [New China] News Agency [新华网]
- State Council Information Office, People's Republic of China
- Ministry of Commerce, People's Republic of China
- State Economic and Trade Commission, China Electric Engineering Society, & China Power Engineering Society
- Economic Daily, State Council Information Office, People's Republic of China
- Sinchew-i (Malaysia) East Asian Chinese web portal
- Les échos [France's daily business newspaper], June 14, 2006
- Energy Bulletin [(US). Word-search "Robert Blohm"]
Referenced in
-The Oil Weapon: Myth of China’s Vulnerability, by Bruce Blair, Chen Yali and Eric Hagt, World Security Institute, Washington (DC), August 2006, footnote 32
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Sextant Letter, June 2006, published by Amiral Gestion [Admiral (Fund) Management], Paris [€ 155 million in funds under management ] French version
May 11, 2006, page 4 [by Robert Blohm] Web Version
Chinese translation in
-Strategic Electricity Policy Decision Reference magazine [电力决策参考 (Dian li Jue ce Can kao)], Beijing, August 20, 2006, pages 28 & 29, published by China Electric Power News [中国电力报 (Zhong guo Dian li Bao)]
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China Petroleum Daily [中国石油报 (Zhong guo Shi you Bao)], Beijing, June 5, 2006, page 7 [by 卜若柏 (Bu Ruo bai [Robert Blohm])] published by China National Petroleum Corporation [(CNPCPetroChina) 中国石油天然气集团公司 (Zhong guo Shi you Tian ran qi Ji tuan Gong si)]. Web Version
Chinese translation republished by
State Economic and Trade Commission, China Electric Engineering Society, & China Power Engineering Society
Original English article republished by
- State Council Information Office, People's Republic of China
- State Grid Corporation of China [国家电网公司 (Guo jia Dian wang Gong si)]
- China National Petroleum Corporation [(CNPCPetroChina) 中国石油天然气集团公司 (Zhong guo Shi you Tian ran qi Ji tuan Gong si)]
- Global Environmental Institute [(Beijing) 全球环境研究所 (Quan qiu Huan jing Yan jiu suo). Word-search "Robert Blohm"]
- Korea Energy Economics Institute
- (US) Power Marketing Association's online Power Report
- University of Alberta (Canada)
Referenced in Aftenposten [Evening Post] newspaper, Oslo (Norway), May 20, 2006 English translation
 
The Economic Observer weekly national newspaper [经济观察报 (Jin ji Guan cha Bao)], Beijing (China)
February 20, 2006, page 7Web VersionEnglish translation
March 20, 2006, page 8Web VersionEnglish translation
 
21st Century Business Herald bi-daily national newspaper [21世纪经济报道 (Er shi yi Shi ji Jing ji Bao dao)], Beijing (China) {Word-search "卜若柏" (Bu Ruo bai [Robert Blohm])}
March 29, 2006, page 6Web VersionEnglish translation
March 31, 2006, page 8Web VersionEnglish translation
April 12, 2006, page 6Web VersionEnglish translation
April 26, 2006Web VersionEnglish translation
May15, 2006, page 8Web VersionEnglish translation
 
Wealth Times [财富时报 (Cai fu Shi bao)], China, March 23, 2006 {Word-search "卜若伯" (Bu Ruo bai [Robert Blohm])} English translation
 
Fortune Asia {财富 (Cai fu [Wealth])} Magazine, Hong Kong, May 2006 English translation
 
Io Energy (publishers of Power Daily), Audio conference by Robert Blohm on "Reliability Rules: Making Mandatory Standards for Operating the Power Grid", August 28, 2003
 
Knight-Ridder/Tribune, August 16, 2003
 
New York Newsday, August 15, 2003
 
Sacramento Bee, August 16, 2003
 
Energie-News, RWE AG (Rheinische Werke für Elektrizität), Essen, Germany, September 2, 2003
 
Strom Magazin (Germany), September, 2003
 
Disaster Recovery Journal, Special Report on "The Great Blackout of 2003", Fall 2003
 
State of Washington, Office of Trade and Economic Development, Energy Division, Weekly Energy Status Report, August 19, 2003, p. 4
 
[The] Electricity Forum News (Ajax, Ontario, & Geneva, New York), May 2004
 
Newsletter, Association of Energy Engineers, New York Chapter, May 2004
 
China State Power (USA) Inc., Bulletin 13, April 6, 2004
 
BlogChina, October 2003
 
Folha de São Paulo [Brazil's biggest newspaper], No. 73717, August 17, 2003:
-Ministério das Relações Exteriores [Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil]
-Instituto de Eletrotécnica e Energia da Universidade de São Paulo [Electrical and Energy Institute, University of São Paulo]
 
Wilmington (North Carolina) Star-News, April 6, 2004
 
Sarasota (Florida) Herald Tribune, April 6, 2004
 
Gadsden (Alabama) Times, April 6, 2004
 
Rutland (Vermont) Herald, August 11, 2004
 
The Valley Group, Inc. (Thermal Rating Technology), Ridgefield, ConnecticutAug. 20, 2003 Aug. 19, 2003
 
California Institute of Technology alumni, FoRK weekly, May 10, 2004
 
Georgia State University, Risk Management and Insurance 8320 Management of Insurance Institutions course syllabus Aug. 20, 2004 May 10, 2003
 
University of Vermont, Economics 20 course syllabus
 
Public Utility Law Project of New York Aug. 10, 2004 May 10, 2004
 
Asymmetrical Information (Jane Galt), August 16, 2003
 
Arranged Fifth Annual Lynford Lecture at NYU-Polytechnic University by Nobel economics Laureate Robert Mundell, Brooklyn, NY, October 8, 2002
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Click article co-authored by Robert Blohm--the first ever measurement of The Internet Economy--on , October 17, 1996. Click publications below reacting to this article, then do word search if necessary
"That was pretty early"--Bill Gates, personal comment, at the COMDEX, Las Vegas, November 15, 1998

Federal Communications Commission Telecommunications Open-Access Order 96-488, December 23, 1996, page 121, paragraph 282 & note 374

IEEE The Institute

The Global Internet Project: Press Release Economic Impact Estimate
Global Internet Project Encryption Summit, House of Lords, London 1997: Program Transcript
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
OECD Ministerial Conference, Summer 1998 Texte en français
European Commission, Information Society Directorate-General Reference 2 Econ. Impact Calculation
European Commission, Content and Commerce Driven Strategies in Global Networks. Building the Networked Economy in Europe, study by Gemini Consulting released at e-Europe Conference 1998
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Philippine APEC Study Center Network
Government of Canada, Industry Canada Background Paper, Internet Steering Committee, Information Highway Advisory Council Texte en français
The Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education (CANARIE)
Progress and Freedom Foundation, Washington, DC
The Nikkei Weekly, Tokyo
Insight Magazine ()
Die Zeit
Direct Marketing
Newsbytes
WebWeek, "Rising Tide" Article on economic impact estimate made for Global Internet Project
BerliNews
digi.no (digitoday Norway AS)
Legislation and Public Policy (Journal), New York University
Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforchung [Economic Research Quarterly], Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung [German Institute for Economic Research], Berlin
Akademie Akademie für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Baden-Würtemberg [Baden-Würtemberg Academy for Technology Impact Assessment]
Zpravodaj Výzkumného ústavu odborného školství, Czech Republic
Educause Review, Boulder, Colo. & Washington, DC
American Distance Education Consortium
University of California at Berkeley, Political Economy of Industrial Societies 101, course syllabus
Massachussetts Institute of Technology and Ohio State University
Duke University
University of Maryland
Universität Bremen, Institut für Kunjunktur und Strukturforschung [Economics and Social Research Institute]
Florida State University
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Click article co-authored by Robert Blohm explaining the Japanese economy's structural weakness that helped trigger the Asian economic crisis at the top of , June 24, 1997 the day after the last attempt by a Japanese Prime Minister to talk down the dollar. Reprinted in THE ASIAN WALL STREET JOURNAL as a warning to the Mainland leadership on the 1st business day after the "Handover" of Hong Kong to China. Click publications below reacting to this article, then do word search if necessary
American Enterprise Institute
National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas & Washington, DC
Plain Talk 201 by Leonard Horwin, Beverly Hills
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Click other publications below by or featuring Robert Blohm on electricity deregulation (and that began as economics publications that helped prevent the breakup of Canada, stop US financing of an uneconomic electric megaproject supporting secession from Canada, prompt the marketization of Canada's two largest electric utilities, and trigger reform of Canada's public finance). Correctly warned against the high prices due to spot-market monopolization of regulated service in California and Ontario that inspired the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to decertify the California Power Exchange and trigger the California electricity market crash. Successfully warned Japan against having an independent system operator operate an electric power exchange. Continue to warn in North America against mandating a single "standard" market design for scheduled electricity, and of the need to price unscheduled power for electric reliability.
 
Official signed photo with Prime Minister of Canada
Official photo with Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Curtis L. Hébert)
Photo with next Executive Director, International Energy Agency (Nobuo Tanaka, at right)
Official photo with Economics Minister, Embassy of Japan
Photo with Chairman, Chinatrust (Jeffrey L.S. Koo, Sr.)


Magazine
New York
Insight Magazine ()
Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo
Malaysian Institute of Management
Canadian Business Magazine
Public Utilities Fortnightly, August 2004ArticleResponding Letter to Editor
Public Utilities Fortnightly, June 15, 2000
Public Utilities Fortnightly, November 15, 1998, Featured in "Frontlines: Those Gas Auctions"Extract
Public Utilities Fortnightly, March 15, 1998     Text
Public Utilities Fortnightly, January 1, 1998, "Ready, Fire, Aim: California and the Nation on the Eve of Competition: 14 Experts Ponder the Future of Electricity"Text
Public Utilities Fortnightly, May 1, 1997, "The Op-Ed Page: Poolco vs. Bilateral"
National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas & Washington, DC
US Department of Energy
Corporate Counsel Review, Journal of the Corporate Counsel Section, State Bar of Texas
RTO Car Talk    Oct. 11, 2002    Reply to Oct. 11, 2002    Sept. 27, 2002
New Brunswick Market Design Committee, Market Design Issues Paper, Choice of Market Model
Ontario Legislature
Independent Power Producers Society of Ontario
National Post (Canada)    Archive 1    Archive 2
The Toronto Star    Archive
Ontario Market Design Committee & The Toronto Star
Energy Probe & The Toronto Star
Assemblée nationale du Québec [Quebec Legislature] March 25, 1996May 20, 1996
Magazine Select subject first, then click --->
Canadian Press    June 1996     Sept. 1996
Le Devoir, Montreal    Archive
La Presse, Montreal, or Le Soleil, Quebec    Archive 1    Archive 2
Commercialisation D'Hydro-Québec: Synthèse des Arguments, Coalition Eau Secours québécoise pour une gestion responsable de l'eau
Université du Québec à Montréal
Canada Remapped
Rutland (Vt.) Herald, November 11, 2004
Vermont Guardian, November 5, 2004
Written Testimony on electric reliability and markets by Robert Blohm before the Vermont Public Service Board, September 3, 2004
Order by the Vermont Public Service Board to Admit the Previously Unadmitted Portions of Testimony by Robert Blohm on electric reliability and markets, November 24, 2004
Ruling by the Vermont Public Service Board to admit Testimony by Robert Blohm on electric reliability and markets, October 8, 2004
Emergency Motion for Oral Argument submitted on December 6, 2004, by the Town of New Haven to the Vermont Public Service Board pursuant to the December 3, 2004, questioning of witness Robert Blohm.   December 10, 2003 Responses by: Vermont Electric Transmission Company, Vermont Department of Public Service, & ISO-New England
Post-Hearing Brief filed December 16, 2004, by the Town of New Haven Re Testimony of Robert Blohm
Reply filed December 22, 2004, by the Town of New Haven to Reply Briefs Re Testimony of Robert Blohm
Reply Brief filed December 16, 2004, by the Town of New Haven
Motion to the Vermont Public Service Board to reconsider decision partially striking testimony by Robert Blohm, November 15, 2004
Motion by the Vermont Electric Transmission Company to the Vermont Public Service Board to reconsider the November 24, 2004 Order permitting the admission of previously stricken Testimony of Robert Blohm, and allowing new Testimony regarding NERC Planning Standards November 30, 2004
Response by the Vermont Department of Public Service to the November 24, 2004, Order by the Vermont Public Service Board restoring remaining Testimony of Robert Blohm November 30, 2004
Deposition to Vermont Electric Transmission Company on Testimony by Robert Blohm on electric reliability and markets before the Vermont Public Service Board, September 15, 2004
Response, on September 21, 2004, to 202-question interrogatory by Vermont Electric Transmission Company on Testimony by Robert Blohm on electric reliability and markets before the Vermont Public Service Board
Response, on October 11, 2004, to 22-question second interrogatory by Vermont Electric Transmission Company on Testimony by Robert Blohm on electric reliability and markets before the Vermont Public Service Board
Criticism by Robert Blohm of Vermont Electric Transmission Company's Critical Load Study and Probabilistic Analysis submitted on October 12, 2004, before the Vermont Public Service Board
Letter of Acceptance, on October 12, 2004, by Vermont Electric Transmission Company, of Responses to all interrogatories on testimony by Robert Blohm on electric reliability and markets before the Vermont Public Service Board
Response, on September 22, 2004, to 152-question interrogatory by the Vermont Department of Public Service on Testimony by Robert Blohm on electric reliability and markets before the Vermont Public Service Board
Response, on October 11, 2004, to 67-question second interrogatory by the Vermont Department of Public Service on Testimony by Robert Blohm on electric reliability and markets before the Vermont Public Service Board
Response on December 1, 2004, to information requests by the Vermont Department of Public Service on Testimony by Robert Blohm readmitted by the Vermont Public Service Board on electric reliability and markets
Attachment to Response on December 1, 2004, to information requests by the Vermont Department of Public Service on Testimony by Robert Blohm readmitted by the Vermont Public Service Board on electric reliability and markets
December 1, 2004, Vermont Department of Public Service Advocacy Report: Casework in Progress at VPDPS. Orders Issued by the Vermont Public Service Board
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Contributions to taskforces and teams of the following electric reliability-standards and commercial-standards organizations:
Member, Registered Ballot Body for voting on Reliability Standards of the North American Electric Reliability Council
"White Paper" prepared by the Joint Inadvertent Interchange Taskforce, North American Electric Reliability Council, and submitted to NERC on May 10, 2002
"Economic Assessment" Report submitted April 10, 2002, by Robert Blohm to the Joint Inadvertent Interchange Taskforce of the North American Electric Reliability Council
"Comments filed on the 1st Posting of the draft Balance Resources and Demand Standard" by Robert Blohm to the North American Electric Reliability Council on July 27, 2003
"Comments filed on the 1st Posting of the draft Balance Resources and Demand Standard" by the California Independent System Operator to the North American Electric Reliability Council in August, 2003, praising comments filed by Robert Blohm to the NERC draft Balancing Resources and Demand Standard
"Supplementary Comment Relative to the 2003 Blackout filed on the 1st Posting of the Balance Resources and Demand Standard" by Robert Blohm to the North American Electric Reliability Council on August 24, 2003
"Comments filed on the 2nd Posting of the draft Balance Resources and Demand Standard" by Robert Blohm to the North American Electric Reliability Council on June 22, 2004
"Mixing up 'Sample Average' [average deltaF] with 'Performance Average' [average (deltaF)²]"--Comment by Robert Blohm submitted to the Balancing Resources and Demand Standard Drafting Team of the North American Electric Reliability Council on April 26, 2004
Comments on Final Report of Phase I of Directed Research conducted by Priority Control Engineering Inc. for the draft Balancing Resources and Demand Standard of the North American Electric Reliability Council--Submitted by Robert Blohm November 11, 2004
November 3, 2004, Response implementing "Comments filed on Disturbance Control Standard 2 upon the 2nd Posting of the draft Version-0 Reliability Standards" by Robert Blohm to the North American Electric Reliability Council
"Comments filed on Disturbance Control Standard 2 and Interconnection Reliability Operating Limits Standard 8 upon the 2nd Posting of the draft Version-0 Reliability Standards" by Robert Blohm to the North American Electric Reliability Council on October 1, 2004
December 20, 2004, Posting of and Response to Comment filed on Disturbance Control Standard 8 during the 1st Balloting of the Version-0 Reliability Standards" by Robert Blohm to the North American Electric Reliability Council
Comments by Robert Blohm on proposed Operating Reserve requirement contained in "Comments on Compliance Templates" submitted to Board of Trustees of the North American Electric Reliability Council on March 31, 2004
Account posted by Western Electric Coordinating Council, North American Electric Reliability Council, of a presentation by Robert Blohm on September 4, 2002, before the Market Interface Committee of the North American Electric Reliability Council on the financial settlement and pricing of inadvertent interchange
"Reliability Reasons for a Commercial Inadvertent Interchange Settlement Standard"--Work Paper submitted by Robert Blohm for the March 31, 2003, conference call of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Preliminary Proposed Scope of Inadvertent Interchange Settlement Standard"--Work Paper submitted by Robert Blohm for the April 9, 2003, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Matrix of Outcomes for Different Ways of Settling the Energy Component of Inadvertent Interchange"--Work Paper submitted by Robert Blohm for the May 8, 2003, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
Robert Blohm's "Comments" to the "Work Paper" for the June 4, 2003, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"A philosophical basis for marginal/spot pricing of the energy component of inadvertent interchange"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the June 18, 2003, conference call of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Two-fold task of Inadvertent pricing"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the July 9, 2003, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Frequency Control Contribution is a 2-dimensional Average"--Graph prepared by Robert Blohm for the July 9, 2003, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"3 Golden Rules of Inadvertent Interchange Accounting"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the July 9, 2003, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Default Pricing of the Energy Component of Inadvertent Interchange"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the August 6, 2003, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Not 'Bilateral' Inadvertents, but Inadvertent 'with the (rest of the) Interconnection' represents the true SOURCES and SINKS of Inadvertent and is not an obstacle to next-hour bilateral energy payback with the Interconnection"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the August 20, 2003, conference call of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Confusion of 'Inadvertent' Interchange with 'Discretionary' or 'Scheduled' Bilateral Interchange"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the August 20, 2003, conference call of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Schedule 4 tariffs address energy-price cashout, not frequency contribution cash-out. A "default", not a replacement, for market prices."--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the August 20, 2003, conference call of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Pricing granularity of RTO/ISO Inadvertent requires not decomposing their Inadvertent into Bilateral Inadvertents, but decomposing the RTOs/ISOs themselves into Balancing Authorities that are redefined as Pricing Zones"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the August 20, 2003, conference call of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Bilateral decomposition of Inadvertent Interchange energy violates the Fundamental Principle of Transmission Usage built into NERC's Interchange Distribution Calculator software"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the August 20, 2003, conference call of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Wide-Open Load Following contradicts the engineering and economics of Tie-Line Bias Control"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the August 20, 2003, conference call of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"A CPS1-Driven Market for the Frequency Control Contribution of Inadvertent Interchange"--Presentation prepared by Robert Blohm for the September 15, 2003, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Four Problems with the Western Interconnection's Auto-Time-Error Correction Methodology, Followed by a Discussion"--Comments submitted by Robert Blohm for the September 15, 2003, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
Minutes of the September 15, 2003, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board describing presentation by Robert Blohm
4 motions for discussion and vote submitted by Robert Blohm for the October 6, 2003, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
Comments submitted by Robert Blohm for the November 3, 2003, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board to a motion by L. Goins, Tennessee Valley Authority, to use the L10 limit in NERC's CPS2 Control Performance Standard as a deadband for non-economic exchange of Inadvertent.
Comments by Robert Blohm in minutes of the November 5, 2003, meeting of the Standards Review Subcommittee of the North American Energy Standards Board
Announcement by the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board of a presentation of a CPS1-driven market for settlement of Inadvertent Interchange, based on data from the Western Interconnection, by Robert Blohm at the Taskforce's December 10, 2003, meeting.
"A CPS1-driven market for Clearing/Settling Inadvertent Interchange. Simulation from an 11-Day period of 17-control-area Western-Interconnection Jan/'02 hourly data"--Presentation prepared by Robert Blohm for the December 10, 2003, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
Minutes of the December 10, 2003, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board summarizing the Presentation prepared by Robert Blohm entitled "A CPS1-driven market for Clearing/Settling Inadvertent Interchange. Simulation from an 11-Day period of 17-control-area Western-Interconnection Jan/'02 hourly data"
"Matrix of Outcomes for 5 Different Ways of Settling the Energy Component of Inadvertent Interchange including proposal by Al DiCaprio of (Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland) PJM Interconnection"--Work Paper submitted by Robert Blohm for the January 22, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Economist's comments on Matrix of Outcomes for 5 Different Ways of Settling the Energy Component of Inadvertent Interchange including proposal by Al DiCaprio of (Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland) PJM Interconnection"--Work Paper submitted by Robert Blohm for the January 22, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Economist's Supplemental Comments to Inadvertent Interchange Pricing Proposal by Al DiCaprio of (Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland) PJM Interconnection"--Work Paper submitted by Robert Blohm for the January 22, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Antitrust Concern Raised by a Motion Made on Jan. 23, 2004, by J. Power of MidWest ISO"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm to the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Single Price Markets"-- Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the February 26, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board in response to the presentation at the last meeting by Al DiCaprio of (Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland) PJM Interconnection
"Two Kinds of Bilateral Financial Settlement of Inadvertent Interchange"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the February 26, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board in response to a motion made by Mark Lively at the previous meeting
"Power/MISO Motion to Eliminate Settlement of the Frequency Contribution Component of Inadvertent Interchange Causes Underfrequency"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the February 26, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Motion to Send Settlement of the Frequency Contribution Component Back to NERC for Development"--Submitted by Robert Blohm for the April 1, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Problems with a Region-Wide Zonal Energy Price for Inadvertent, and with Pricing for Frequency Impact only Inadvertent that Violates CPS1"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the April 1, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Comments on a Motion by Al DiCaprio" of (Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland) PJM Interconnection LLC to Add to the Power/MISO Motion and Refer it to the NAESB Executive Committee--Submitted by Robert Blohm for the April 1, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Simple frequency adder"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm for the May 5, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Energy-only pricing of Inadvertent rewards over-frequency & A reliability deadband already exists"--Two comments submitted by Robert Blohm for the May 5, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce or Inadvertent Interchange Parking Taskforce? and the Frequency Drift Crisis." Crisis of Inadvertent Interchange Parking and Upward Frequency Drift Solved only by Frequency Adder.--Four comments submitted by Robert Blohm for the May 26, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Only Native Prices Properly Signal Inadvertent Congestion. Marginal Energy Settlement of Inadvertent Interchange Using Native Prices."--Joint paper submitted by Robert Blohm and Howard F. Illian for the June 23, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"3-Point Criticism of Preliminary Draft Strawman"--Comment submitted by Robert Blohm at the June 23, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Comments to Updated Draff IIPTF Strawman"--Submitted by Robert Blohm for the July 1, 2004, conference call of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Picture of How Many Hours of the Inadvertent Interchange is outside Deadbands"--Submitted by Robert Blohm for the July 13, 2004, conference call of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Picture of How Much of the MWh of Inadvertent Interchange is outside Deadbands"--Submitted by Robert Blohm for the July 13, 2004, conference call of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Picture of Continuous Deadband"--Submitted by Robert Blohm for the July 13, 2004, conference call of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
"Practical Meaning of Conforming WECC Auto Time Error Correction to CPS1"--Submitted by Robert Blohm in supplement to a paper submitted by Howard F. Illian for the September 22, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
Modified "Practical Meaning of Conforming WECC Auto Time Error Correction to CPS1"--Submitted by Robert Blohm in supplement to a paper submitted by Howard F. Illian for the October 19, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
Minutes of the October 19, 2004, meeting of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board
Comments filed on January 10, 2005, by Robert Blohm to the North American Energy Standards Board on Posting of the draft Inadvertent Interchange Payback Standard Option 1 Option 2
Comments made by Robert Blohm on March 24, 2005, and April 1, 2005, critical of the mathematical statistical incorrectness of the control limits as determined by the research conducted for the Balancing Resources and Demand Standard, submitted to the Resources Subcommittee and the Balancing Resources and Demand Standard Drafting Team of the North American Electric Reliability Council
-Related comments made by Robert Blohm on July 6, 2005, and December 5, 2005, primarily on preliminary breakdown of frequency event occurrences performed by Priority Control Engineering Inc., submitted to the Resources Subcommittee and the Balancing Resources and Demand Standard Drafting Team of the North American Electric Reliability Council
-Red-lined corrections and comments made by Robert Blohm on July 6, 2005, and December 5, 2005, to preliminary breakdown of frequency event occurrences performed by Priority Control Engineering Inc. and submitted to the Resources Subcommittee and the Balancing Resources and Demand Standard Drafting Team of the North American Electric Reliability Council
"Ten Ways the Directed Research has Invalidated the Proposed Methodology for Setting the Real-Time Frequency Limits", comments submitted by Robert Blohm on July 19, 2005, to the Balancing Resources and Demand Standard Drafting Team of the North American Electric Reliability Council on Draft 6 of the "Final Integrated Phase I & II Report on Directed Research to Validate the 'Balance Resources and Demand' Standard's Procedures and Define Frequency-Related Limits"
Red-lined corrections and comments made by Robert Blohm to the June 1, 2005, Draft 6 of the "Final Integrated Phase I and II Report on Directed Research to Validate the 'Balance Resources and Demand' Standard's Procedures and Define Frequency-Related Limits" submitted to the Balancing Resources and Demand Standard Drafting Team of the North American Electric Reliability Council
Red-lined corrections, revisions and additions recommended by Robert Blohm to the May 13, 2005, submission of the "Notice of Proposed Rule Making Comments of Howard F. Illian" (on Dockets No. RM05-10-000 and No. AD04-13-000 Imbalance Provisions for Intermittent Resources and Assessing the State of Wind Energy In Wholesale Electricity Markets) filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
"Final Report" of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce of the North American Energy Standards Board, October 13, 2005. Request to the industry for comment.
"Comments" filed by Robert Blohm on October 20, 2005, in response to the "Request to the industry for comment" by the North American Energy Standards Board to the "Final Report" of the Inadvertent Interchange Payback Taskforce posted on October 13, 2005