T&D Around the World
The electricity industry has enjoyed a 60-year period of centralized state control. The past decade of regulatory reforms and market liberalization has...
The Bush Adminstration's Big Issues and Outlook
When President George W. Bush first came to Washington, D.C. in 2000, he hit the ground running. In his first term, he charged Vice President Cheney with...
Utilities Band Together to Leverage Department of Energy T&D Technologies
We are seeing a serious effort by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop technologies to help make the grid more reliable and secure. Although...
Crafting Your Next Rate Case
For some electric utilities the challenge has already started; for others it's just beginning. Either way, many utilities especially those that have gone...
United States: G&W Electric Celebrates a Century of Service and Power System Innovations
G&W Electric Co. is celebrating 100 years of service in the electric power industry. The company was founded in 1905 when Harry Gear and Paul Williams,...
Korea/United States: Hyundai Heavy Industries and American Electric Power Announce Plans to Forge Partnership
Since the blackout accident in the Northeast United States in August 2003, utility companies have been focusing their efforts to assure a safe and reliable...
WPS Energy Services Goes Live on KWI
WPS Energy Services Inc. (Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.) has upgraded its energy trading and risk management system to KWI's kW3000 v7.0. WPS Energy Services...
Wall Street Speaks Out
The utility sector has experienced some major highs and lows over the past five years. The consequences of deregulation efforts, including the rise and...
United States: Honda and Plug Power Announce Experimental Operation of Second-Generation Home Energy Station
Honda R&D Americas (Torrance, California) and Plug Power Inc. (Latham, New York) have begun successful operation of the second-generation Home Energy...
United States: Alliant Energy Sells Energy Management Business
Alliant Energy Corp. (Madison, Wisconsin) has successfully completed the sale of substantially all of the major contracts held by its energy management...
United States/Mexico: FERC, Mexico's Federal Energy Commission Sign Agreement on Energy Project Cooperation
Top officials with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and Mexico's Comisin Reguladora de Energa (CRE) have signed a Letter of Intent to enhance...
United States: Americans Forego $10 Billion Benefit from Deregulating Electricity
Retail electricity consumers could save up to 9% of their power bills in states that have yet to deregulate their electricity markets, according to The...
Reclaiming Power Delivery
The electric utility industry has been mired in a period of transition, with executives wondering whether their world would be regulated or deregulated....
United States: Proposed FERC Rule Seeks Comment on Market-Based Rate Reporting for Changes in Status
To enhance its oversight of public utilities with market-based rates, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) proposed to standardize and clarify...
The Business IssuesBush and Kerry in the Ring
The business issues facing the nation stir debate between the two men in the ring, George Bush and John Kerry.We recently asked both candidates to answer...
Investment in the Regulated Utility Comes Roaring Back
Utilities are finally going back to their roots and it's about time. In years past, Wall Street and managing consultants were more than willing to help...
A Joint-Use Bill of Rights
When the U.S. Congress entrusted the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with pole attachment regulation 26 years ago, it could not have anticipated...
Tekla and Eesti Energia AS Sign Contract
Tekla (Espoo, Finland) and Eesti Energia AS (Tallinn Estonia) have signed a contract on further deliveries of the Tekla Xpower network information system....
Utility Stock Prices Defy the Gravity of Summer 2004
The stock prices of most electric utilities reflect this to be one of their best years ever. Dividends are rich with 5.5% a common yield. The graph below...
GE Completes Gold Medal Effort
GE Energy turned in a gold medal performance at the recently completed Athens 2004 Olympics Games, using technology and teamwork to assure the reliable delivery of back-up electricity for hundreds of events involving thousands of athletes from around the world...
Virginia SCC Action Paves Way for AEP to Join PJM Interconnection
The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) has approved American Electric Power's application to transfer functional control of its transmission assets in Virginia to the PJM Interconnection regional transmission organization...
Magazine Names Progress Energy to List of 'Top Utilities for Economic Development 2003'
For the third year in a row, Site Selection magazine has named Progress Energy on its list of "Top Utilities for Economic Development" ...
CFIB Calls for Creation of Office of the Provincial Electricity Auditor
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is urging the Ontario government to create an Office of the Provincial Electricity Auditor to oversee the various electricity entities envisioned as part of Bill 100...
Austria: VA TECH T&D Scores Euro 5 Million National Grid Contract
VA TECH Transmission & Distribution (VA TECH T&D) has been awarded a new contract by National Grid Transco at Chickerell in southwest England. VA TECH...
BOC, Sumitomo Electric Partner on HTS Project
BOC (Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S.), a supplier of cryogenic gases and related technology, has signed an agreement with Sumitomo Electric Industries to...
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