Skeptics believe investors will continue to shy away from nuclear in the coming decades, but conditions are changing, with several factors pointing to expanded nuclear generation.

In a roundtable discussion, generation experts explain how environmental regulations, industry restructuring, investor confidence, and the bottom line are affecting their decision-making.

On Oct. 22, FERC ruled that FERC-regulated entities must file their cash management agreements with the commission and notify the commission when their proprietary capital ratio drops below 30 percent, and when it subsequently returns to or exceeds 30 percent. FERC’s ruling comes in response to analysis that found “severe record keeping deficiencies” by some FERC-regulated entities. This problem has led credit rating agencies like Fitch Ratings to warn that consolidated cash management accounts and failure to document fund transfers among affiliated companies as intercompany loans could be factors contributing to a U.S. bankruptcy court’s decision to consolidate a solvent company in the bankruptcy proceeding of its affiliate.

ISO New England wants to become a regional transmission organization. But just the idea — prior to any official filing at FERC — has come under attack. ISO-NE is going to find rough waters ahead, despite a three-year effort aimed at a smooth transition to becoming an RTO. And now with the Oct. 31 filing of the 2,000-plus-page RTO proposal at FERC, the stage is set for these battles to be fought, again.

New rules revising the New Source Review (NSR) provision of the Clean Air Act recently were published. The action formalized a process begun several years earlier with the objective of bringing greater clarity to the rule. The new rule is aimed at allowing operators to upgrade equipment at existing power plants without triggering NSR.

New opportunities at ScottishPower, Chesapeake Utilities, NRG Energy Inc., and others.

Cambridge Energy Research Associates Chairman Daniel Yergin captures in a few words oil's extraordinary past. Might those words one day describe the next 100 years of natural gas development? Talking with Yergin in early November, I found a man convinced that the forces that shaped a global oil market are at work in shaping a global market for natural gas. I'll be sharing some of his words with you.

From the start, CRM has been an imprecise term that loosely describes a multitude of various capabilities, including sales management, marketing analysis, campaign management, customer contact management, and customer self-service applications. CRM solutions do not necessarily replace CIS systems.

Regulators from five states across the country discuss the fallout from the August blackout, and their battle with the feds over how to tackle the tough issues the states are facing.

Our annual overview of PUC rulings shows how rate orders handed down during the past 12 months have focused both on declining interest rates and increased financial risks—and how they should affect investor expectations.