Business & Money
Sticking to the Knitting:
A review of three years of post-Enron stock performance by electric utilities.
Immediately following the Enron collapse, investors dumped the stock of any electric power company that appeared to be pursuing non-traditional growth strategies. Any company that emphasized unregulated businesses-investments in overseas assets, merchant power plant development, and energy marketing and trading-was suspect.
Should transmission owners get paid extra for distance and voltage?
An analysis of the strategic implications of the re-basing of power and utility industry valuations.
People for June 2004.
Like it or not, changes are coming for electric cooperatives. Fewer and bigger might be the inevitable result.
When power planners at Basin Electric Power Cooperative began trying to decide how and where the company's next big power plant would be built, they did what a co-op does best -they reached out and formed a coalition.
Interviews
For Public Utilities Fortnightly's 75th Anniversary CEO issue, the magazine looked to the horizon and asked these new captains about the planned course for their companies, and for an entire industry.
A spate of proposed U.S. tax rule changes soon may open a window of opportunity for certain utilities.
Despite development challenges, LNG capacity is destined to play a bigger role in the U.S. energy mix.
Electricity rates may be heading skyward sooner than we think.
People for March 2004.