CEO Pay Reflects Strong Stock Performance
The CEO Power Forum: TXU's Wilder nets $55 million package.
Companies continue to embrace the back-to-basics strategy, and investors seem to think that it is paying off.
Fortnightly Magazine - June 2005
Boardroom Focus: Bringing Insight to Oversight
How to use the board of directors to build a more resilient enterprise.
Utility boards face great uncertainty, heightening the importance of communication between directors and management.
A National Gasification Strategy
Presenting a program to stimulate robust coal-gasification technology deployment at low federal cost.
Federal loan guarantees and other incentives can clear the hurdles to near-term deployment of gasification technologies.
Financing Clean Coal
No single type of financial incentive closes the cost gap between clean coal and modern conventional coal technologies.
How can the cost gap between IGCC plants and pulverized coal plants be closed?
EPA's Big Bet on Green Trading
Environmental Emissions: The cost to power markets of the Clean Air Interstate Rule depends on the ability to trade mercury.
The decision to limit mercury provides cover for utilities reluctant to spend on controlling NOx and SO2, while boosting other companies
The Ultimate CEOs: Constellation Energy’s Mayo A. Shattuck III
The CEO Power Forum: Not all utility CEOs are created equal...
"Goldman Sachs built the platform. They came from a world of conventional procedures and compliance, and an understanding of rule sets. Almost every other wholesale platform built in Houston and run by cowboys got out of control."
The Ultimate CEOs: Anthony F. Earley Jr., DTE Energy
The CEO Power Forum: Not all utility CEOs are created equal...
"To enhance that natural utility growth of around 2 percent per year, we want to surround the utilities with a portfolio of non-utility businesses that have higher growth prospects."
The Ultimate CEOs: James E. Rogers, Chairman, President and CEO, Cinergy
The CEO Power Forum: Not all utility CEOs are created equal...
"Given that we and other utilities are involved in planning to meet other pollution regulations, as well as soon adding new generation to meet growing demand, we need greater certainty regarding what these CO2 regs will require."
The Ultimate CEOs: C. John Wilder, TXU Corp.
The CEO Power Forum: Not all utility CEOs are created equal...
"This is a real industrial company with a real consumer business. It's not a kind of governmental confected business like many of these quasi-restructured market companies compete in."
The Ultimate CEOs: Wayne H. Brunetti, Xcel Energy
The CEO Power Forum: Not all utility CEOs are created equal...
“People have approached us to outsource our call centers to India. I’m just not going to do that. To me the face of our company is our call centers. That’s our principle contact with our customers.”