Perspective
Seven recommendations to improve TMI's nuclear plant security that have gone unheeded.
Off Peak
The <i>Fortnightly</i> guide to round-trip trading.
Off Peak
July 15, 2002
Gas Turbinemania: The Merchant Power Plant Shake Out
Why it happened? Who lost in the bust? Who will survive to build another turbine?
Some merchant generation developers never saw the generation glut coming. Presenting the winners and losers of the latest cycle of boom, bubble, and collapse in the merchant generation industry.
Managing the Telecom Value Curve
There are opportunities for utilities despite the telecom market correction of 2001 and 2002.
The risks for utilities entering telecommunications are real and ever present, especially with the recent 2001 and 2002 telecommunications market correction. But some utilities have found success in the telecom space by taking an incremental approach to manage risks and climb the telecom value curve.
Let's Be More Positive About Natural Gas!
There will be ample U.S. natural gas supplies to support a 30 Tcf market by 2010.
There will be ample natural gas supplies for a 30 Tcf market by 2010.
Barbarians at the Gates
FERC... SEC... CFTC...Congress ... Ratings Agencies... Stockholders... Bondholders... Private Equity Investors?
No one has yet quantified or qualified the devastation to industry reputation, electric competition, or energy companies' future earnings power caused by the current round of energy trading scandals that is shaking the industry to its core.
Bragawatts: Nothing to Brag About
So-called 'round-trip trades' and what FERC should do about it.
Power trading companies that make the cut on the top-10 ranking list essentially have won the right to brag ... or have they?
People (June 15, 2002)
Larry Schmid has been named CFO for Great River Energy. Hydro Energy of Norsk Hydro has appointed Hilde Myrberg as sector president. Ronald McMahan has joined the board of directors of Index Pricing Group. And others ...
Benchmarks: Coal Prices
Steady again, as new paradigm takes hold.
New coal price levels are down, but above the prices realized in the 1990s. Perhaps it can be demonstrated that the supply of coal is much more in line with its demand, and that coal mines are producing at levels much closer to aggregate mine capacity.
Vote Yes on Yucca Mountain
Congress needs to uphold the president's designation for a nuclear waste disposal site.
In the interest of security, economics, and common sense, it is important that Congress votes to uphold Yucca Mountain as the nation's central nuclear waste disposal facility.