The Energy Tech Chronicles: Will Bust Turn to Boom?
Overcoming many obstacles, energy technology continues to have potential.
California: Beginning Anew
The 2002 rhetoric sounds like pro-electric competition, but is it too little, too late?
In its recent efforts to tie up the loose ends left from the California Crisis, is the state setting itself up for a sequel, California Crisis II: A Not So Beautiful Market?
Letter to the Editor: The Enron Spin
A Response to "A Wrinkle in Time" from the Jan. 2002 issue.
People (Feb 15, 2002)
Dan Boverman has been appointed vice president and CFO for Celerity Energy. SEMCO Energy appointed John E. Schneider as CFO. Constellation Energy has announced several personnel changes. And others ...
Concentrated Transmission Assets
Public Utilities Fortnightly and POWERdat®
Investment in transmission is likely to surge in the buying and selling of transmission assets and in the restructuring of the transmission business.
Overcapacity ... Just Part of the Cycle of Growth
The industry has moved beyond the debate.
Steve Mitnick’s response (“Overbuilding? Fuhgedda-boutit!”, Jan. 15) to my Nov. 15 article extended the great industry debate over whether the recent power plant construction boom would result in near-term over-supply. The only problem is, the industry has moved on.
Onward, Kyoto!
With a nascent emissions market, U.S. companies may not be so grateful they’re out of the club.
Domestic energy companies may have breathed a sigh of relief last March when the United States pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol. Gone was the specter of expensive compliance with emissions reduction targets set by the treaty. So long as they don't care about expanding globally or entering emerging emissions trading markets, they probably have a reason to think they've dodged the emissions bullet.
Low Voltage
Not everyone in the industry runs at 100 percent capacity.
The credit for the idea of a floating nuke plant does not belong to Russia.
Western Europe: The New Hot Spot
New energy demands are testing power supplies and creating new opportunities for power plant development in some countries.
Europe may be ripe for power plant development, as demand for power is projected to outstrip supply in select areas. RDI opens up its European database and reveals what areas are hot for investment.
European Power Forum: New Rules, New Players
Top executives and regulators discuss European liberalization and U.S. investment opportunities overseas.
Exclusive interviews with regulators from the UK and European Parliament, as well as Duke Energy International and TXU Europe Energy Trading, on investment opportunities and regulatory obstacles overseas.