Business Roundtable CEOs Provide Blueprint for U.S. Energy Future
Business Roundtable, an association of 160 chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies, has unveiled a wide-ranging energy plan calling for a more diversified and domestic-based energy supply mix, increased energy efficiency and greater investment in new energy technologies. ...
ITC Great Plains Receives Approval to Operate as Utility in Kansas
ITC Great Plains, an ITC Holdings Corp. subsidiary, has announced the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) has approved its Application for Certificate of Convenience and Authority. ...
Idaho Power Signs MoU for Development of Major Transmission Lines
Idaho Power has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with PacifiCorp under which the companies would pursue possible development of new high voltage transmission lines from Wyoming across southern Idaho...
ELCON Calls for Independent Investigation of PJM
The Electricity Consumers Resource Council filed a brief yesterday with FERC regarding PJM’s obligation to maintain a credible market monitoring function in the face of claims from the incumbent market monitor that he faced extensive management interference....
METC Becomes Fully Independent Transmission Company
Michigan Electric Transmission Company, a subsidiary of ITC Holdings Corp., yesterday completed its full operational separation from Consumers Energy, the former owners of the electric transmission system in the western and northern portions of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. ...
AEP’s First Corporate Responsibility Report Outlines Challenges, Performance on Key Issues
American Electric Power has released its first-ever Corporate Responsibility Report in which it addresses issues that affect the company’s sustainability, including climate change, public policy strategy, environmental performance, energy security, reliability and growth, work force issues and stakeholder engagement. ...
NYSERDA Offers US$5 Million to Fund T&D Research
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has made available US$5 million to support projects that improve reliability, security...
CE Power Solutions Wins E.ON Bid
E.ON U.S. has awarded Custom Engineered Power Solutions (Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.; www.cepowersol.com) a five-year contract in which CE Power is responsible...
Telvent, DMS Group Strengthen Their Partnership
Telvent GIT S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.telvent.com) has signed an agreement with DMS Group (Serbia and Montenegro; www.dmsgroup.co.yu) to be the exclusive...
LeT Systems, Sapient Form Partnership
LeT Systems (Cork, Ireland; www.letsys.com), which focuses on the design, development and deployment of eBusiness-based solutions for the utilities sector,...
Nexans Signs Deal with Canadian Utility
SaskPower, the principal supplier of electricity in Saskatchewan, Canada, has extended its strategic business partnership with Nexans (Paris, France;...
CDTI Gives Grant Money to ENDESA
Spain's Ministry for Industry's Industrial Technological Centre (CDTI) will provide grant money to an ENDESA-led project, which was one of 42 projects...
Sharks in the Water
Beneath the seemingly smooth waters of the electrical products marketplace swims a predator that threatens not only the integrity and good reputation...
Allegheny Energy, American Electric Power to Form Joint Venture to Build 765-kV Transmission
Allegheny Energy, Inc. has signed a memorandum of understanding with American Electric Power to form a joint venture company to build and own new electric transmission assets within PJM Interconnection. ...
California ISO Board Approves Five-Year Business Plan
The California Independent System Operator Corporation Board of Governors has approved a comprehensive five-year business plan that follows a thorough process of assessing the needs of the electricity industry and the consumers it serves...
TXU, InfrastruX Suspend Joint Venture
TXU Corp. and InfrastruX Group, a national provider of utility-related construction and maintenance services, announced today that they have mutually agreed to suspend their agreements relating to the InfrastruX Energy Services Group LP (IES) joint venture. ...
Utilities Must Encourage 'Benchmarking Culture' as Proxy to Competition, Recommends EUCG
Electric utilities should use benchmarking and best practices to a much greater degree to better measure and validate organizational and industry performance, participants were told at EUCG's spring 2007 workshop here March 25-28...
NARUC Lauds DOE Energy Efficiency Report, Cites States’ Critical Role
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners lauded the Energy Department’s new report on state and regional energy efficiency policies for recognizing the important role state regulators have in developing energy efficiency programs. ...
Fitch: FERC Order 679-A Will Not Impede Transmission Investments
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Order No. 679-A will not reduce investment in transmission by U.S. utilities, as discussed in a Fitch Ratings report. ...
Norway Utility Expands IT Business
Lyse Energi, a multi-utility based in Stavanger, Norway, will become an application service provider for Telvent Miner & Miner's ArcFM and ESRI's ArcGIS...
Quanta to Purchase InfraSource to Offer Improved Portfolio of Services
Quanta Services Inc. (Houston, Texas, U.S.) announced in mid-March that it will acquire InfraSource Services Inc. (Media, Pennsylvania, U.S.) in an all-stock...
Let's Get the Funding Right
There is no denying that the nation's transmission system needs to be upgraded, modernized and expanded, and economic transmission expansion is a key...
Itron to Acquire Actaris Metering
Itron (Liberty Lake, Washington, U.S.) has signed an agreement to acquire all of the stock and convertible bonds of Actaris Metering Systems (Luxembourg)....
Comverge Launches Initial Public Offering
Comverge Inc. (East Hanover, New Jersey, U.S.), a provider of clean energy solutions, has filed with the Securities Exchange Commission for an initial...
RAO UES of Russia Releases New-Model Wholesale, Retail Electricity Markets Results
RAO "UES of Russia" has released the results of the operation of the new liberalized model of the wholesale and retail markets for electricity started Sept. 1, 2006...
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