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People (January 2005)

AGL Resources announced the reorganization of its six-state territory into two divisions. Briggs L. Tobin was named GE's senior counsel for transactions. The Board of Directors of CH Energy Group Inc. appointed Joseph J. DeVirgilio Jr. to the position of executive vice president of corporate services and administration. And others ...
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Roundtable: The Future Of Generation

Meeting tomorrow’s power needs will pose tough choices.

A group of executives and analysts tell Fortnightly that the outlook for generation is positive, because it has to be. But making generation work well—affordably, cleanly, and reliably—won’t be easy.
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Michael T. Burr

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People: November 2004

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Jack Hawks took on the added role of EPSA's acting vice president of policy; David Barnes joined Commerce Energy as vice president, Finance & Investor Relations; Terry Winter assumed the newly created position of executive vice president, Advanced Grid Solutions at American Superconductor Corp.; and more.
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Winners and Losers: Utility Strategy and Shareholder Return

Diversified companies lead (and the globals lag) over the past five years.

The unbundling of services and companies in the electricity and natural gas industries have created unprecedented opportunities to reinvent the traditional integrated utility model, with a broader array of attendant risks and rewards. But this past year was clearly one of retrenchment and strategic soul searching, allowing an opportunity to re-examine the sector for winning business formulas.
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James Coyne and Prescott Hartshorne

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People for May 2004.

Positions filled at Southern Co., World Association of Nuclear Operators, Allegheny Energy, and others.
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Back to the Ratebase

Utilities are absorbing distressed IPPs, and raising alarm bells in the process.

In 2003, just over 1.4 GW of unregulated generating capacity was converted into rate-based assets. At least another 5.6 GW will be converted soon. What supply procurement practices are appropriate in today’s power market?
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Michael T. Burr

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Generation Roundtable: Power Flux

Generators struggle to plan for the future as they cope with an unstable present.

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

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People

People for December 2003.

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

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The Modern Utility: Still a Black Box?

Wall Street bankers say utilities are not effectively telling their story.

How do you value an investor-owned utility? Ever since the Enron debacle, the credit crisis and the economic downturn, many in the investment community say that there exists a need for utilities to better communicate their business vision and corporate model — particularly now that the economy is headed into an economic upswing and utilities will have to compete with higher-yielding financial instruments such as U.S. treasuries, or competing equities with higher-paying dividends.
Byline: 

Richard Stavros

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The CIO Forum: Budgets Byte Back

Chief tech officers discuss how they are using their data to beat the competitition.

Chief tech officers discuss how they are using their data to beat the competitition.

 

This year's first IT commandment: Use what you've got. And the second is like unto it: Data is king. Those are the strong themes that emerged from this year's CIO Forum. Fortnightly interviewed three chief information officers at three diverse companies: a traditional utility, Cinergy; a merchant generator, Calpine; and an independent system operator (ISO), the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).

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Jennifer Alvey
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