Today's volatile markets upset the discounted cash flow model, and others.
Jonathan A. Lesser
DCF Utility Valuation: Still the Gold Standard?
Can utilities make a credible play for power line communications?
Jennifer Alvey
It's Now or Never for Power Line Broadband
A top investor explains what it would take for utilities to be included in one of the best-performing funds in the U.S.
Richard Stavros
Measuring Up to Jensen
A top investor explains what it would take for utilities to be included in one of the best-performing funds in the U.S.
Passing the standards for inclusion in the $1 billion plus Jensen Portfolio Fund is like being crowned the best-of-the-best in a given industry, analysts say.
Utilities and vendors take a hard look at online procurement.
Jennifer Alvey
Mining Gold From The Supply Chain
Utilities and vendors take a hard look at online procurement.
Feel like saving your company $50 million? That's the question Joseph Zelechoski, director of supply chain at PPL, has for those who haven't tried online supply chain management.
State regulators redouble their deregulation efforts-or abandon them altogether.
Phillip S. Cross
Retail Energy in 2002: A Regulatory About-face
State regulators redouble their deregulation efforts-or abandon them altogether.
The past year was a phenomenal one for state public utility regulators.
A historical confluence of events, including the catastrophic failure of the move to deregulate California electric markets and a nationwide epidemic of corporate financial scandals, led in large part by energy trading firms, helps to explain the developments.
Pennsylvania loses faith in FERC, looks for help from the Justice department.
Philip S. Cross
Pennsylvania loses faith in FERC, looks for help from the Justice department.
"A well functioning market on an average day works better than we regulators can do on our best day." Perhaps this quote, attributed to Pat Wood, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), best captures the prevailing view among transmission officials in the Northeast. But the feeling out West is decidedly different. So is the mood among state utility regulators.
And where the trouble spots lie in FERC's grid plan.
See Affidavit of William H. Dunn, Jr., on behalf of the Montana Consumer Counsel, FERC Docket No. RT01-35, filed 5/29/02
And where the trouble spots lie in FERC's grid plan.
The mood appeared calm on June 26 in Washington, D.C., at the regular bi-weekly meeting of the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Key officials from various regional transmission organizations (RTOs) had gathered before chairman Pat Wood and the other commissioners to brief them on progress over the past year in reforming wholesale electric markets, and on what the FERC might expect in the summer at hand.
Seven recommendations to improve TMI's nuclear plant security that have gone unheeded.
Eric Joseph Epstein
Why it happened? Who lost in the bust? Who will survive to build another turbine?
Robert L. Sansom and A. Michael Schaal
Why it happened? Who lost in the bust? Who will survive to build another turbine?
The period from late 2001 to April 2002 witnessed a classic industry shakeout as a result of a merchant power development sector that became too ambitious in its power plant development plans.
New England puts a price on electric reliability, but some say the charge looks more like a tax.
Bruce W. Radford
News Analysis
New England puts a price on electric reliability, but some say the charge looks more like a tax.
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Does ICAP qualify as a true commercial product, traded on its own merit with a tangible value for customers?
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