United States/Germany: Ruhrgas Industries Acquires ABB's Electricity and Water Meter Business
Elster Electricity LLC (Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.), formerly ABB Electricity Metering, announces the completion of the acquisition of ABB's global...
Utility-Affiliated ESCOs: Is the Honeymoon Over?
When deregulation struck five years ago, large utilities scrambled for a piece of the energy service company (ESCO) pie. How have those ventures fared?...
Below the Tip of the Iceberg
How does an industry regulator measure and regulate the performance of a distribution company? For U.K. regulator Ofgem, the answer is to monitor the...
East Meets West
The year 2001 saw the 50th anniversary of the Union for the Coordination of Production and Transmission of Electricity (UCPTE). The Organization for European...
The Freedom to Call Your Own Shots
When Brian Groves and Nick Fulcher joined the U.K.'s East Midlands Electricity in 1966 and 1974, respectively, they saw it as a career that would see...
Industry Restructuring: What Happened to Merger Mania?
What a difference a couple of years make. Just two or three years ago, merger mania was all the rage in the utilities industry. Blockbuster combinations...
Jury Rules Against Itron In Patent Litigation
A jury in Minneapolis, Minnesota returned a verdict against Itron Inc. (Spokane, Washington, U.S.) and found that Itron's manual entry handheld meter-reading...
Energiedirect Enters Dutch Residental Market
The Revenue Manager from Excelergy (Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S) will handle billing, revenues, customer care, collaborative communications and information...
Puget Sound Energy One Year Later
As senior vice president and COO at Puget Sound Energy, Gary B. Swofford oversees the operations of the utility, including energy delivery, customer service,...
United States: GE Provides Consulting Services for Long Island
GE Power Systems (Atlanta, Georgia), on behalf of Long Island Power Authority (LIPA; Long Island, New York), analyzed the technical issues associated...
United States: MEA/ETN Offer Electrical Worker and OSHA Training
Midwest Energy Association and Energy Training Network (MEA/ETN; Minnesota) have partnered with Vivid Learning Systems (Richland, Washington) to supply...
University of Mississippi Cuts Energy Costs
The University of Mississippi selected an enterprise energy management system from Power Measurement (Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada) to monitor...
The Business of Politics
Patrick Henry Wood III stepped into the chairmanship of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in 2001. Wood arrived not long after California's...
Let's Get Down to Earth
Today, utilities are stuck between a rock and a hard place. When regulators hold rates flat, utilities find themselves in a bind. They are forced to respond...
We Need to Get Transmission Pricing Right
Some believe that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) proposal for reorganizing the nation's wholesale electricity market has been a power...
Texas: Slow and Deliberate
No one in the electric industry wants a repeat of what happened in California two years ago. As the first state to deregulate its retail electric markets,...
Transmission Owners Face Big Decisions
Paul McCoy is an intense but excitable man, and why shouldn't he be? His new company, Trans-Elect (Reston, Virginia, U.S.), is rewriting the future of...
United States: Commerce Department Awards Grant for Scale-Up of HTS Coated Conductor Wire
The Department of Commerce's Advanced Technology Program (ATP) awarded American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC; Westborough, Massachusetts) a US$2 million,...
United States: MEA/ETN Offer Electrical Worker and OSHA Training
Midwest Energy Association and Energy Training Network (MEA/ETN; Minnesota) have partnered with Vivid Learning Systems (Richland, Washington) to supply...
Germany: Utilities Form 50-50 Joint Energy Services Company
Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution and Stadtwerke Leipzig GmbH (Leipzig Municipal Utilities) have formed Energy Services GmbH, a 50-50 joint-venture...
International: Report Examines Electricity Sector Restructuring
A World Resource Institute (WRI) report by Dr. Navroz Dubash, entitled Power Politics: Equity and Environment in Electricity Reform, examines the electricity...
Turnkey Out, Best of Breed In
In the late 1990s, in keeping with the rest of the world, the Chilean Electricity Industry embarked on a major restructuring program that led to several...
United States: The Changing World of Energy and its Delivery
In the electric industry, the day of large central station power plants has already given way to modular, combined cycle gas powered plants. We envisioned...
United States: Utility Beats State's Renewable Power Requirements
California Gov. Gray Davis has signed a bill into law requiring municipal electric utilities to set renewable resource standards and report progress to...
Transmission Lines Encircle The Mediterranean Sea
Interconnections between neighboring utilities are becoming increasingly vital for the implementation of an open energy trading market and to increase...
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