Aquila: New-Look Company Still Bullish on Risk Management

CEO Power Forum: Robert Green, President and CEO of Aquila

“We want to see the framework for investment in transmission clarified so that we can attract capital to de-bottleneck the transmission grid and continue to restructure the transmission segment so there’s no discrimination and we can freely flow electrons across the grid to meet our clients’ requirements.”

PSEG: N.J. Utility Rides Unregulated Wave to the Bank

CEO Power Forum: James Ferland, Chairman, President, and CEO of Public Service Enterprise Group

“We’re running our generation operations with about 40 percent fewer people than we had 10 years ago, and other parts of the country could benefit from similar kinds of competitive pressures.”

Alliant Energy: Pushing for a Coherent Policy

CEO Power Forum: Erroll B. Davis Jr., Chairman, President, and CEO of Alliant Energy

“I, personally, have always been, and I continue to be, for competition at every level. But I’m not spending a lot of personal time, energy, or political capital, pushing issues of retail choice at this point.”

Play Ball. Electrically.

May 24, 1935: FDR pressed a gold telegraph key, and Crosley Field’s eight light towers turned on night baseball.

General Electric and Cincinnati Gas & Electric (now Duke Energy) designed and installed the light towers for the first night baseball game. Engineers painstakingly determined the tower positions.

Illicit Marketing Practices

State PUCs take aim at unscrupulous electric and gas suppliers.

We’ll cover state PUC rulings from New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Ohio, dealing with 1) billing overcharges, 2) deceptive promises of savings, 3) faulty enrollment practices, 4) “slamming,” 5) misleading sales scripts used in telemarketing, 6) hidden fixed charges, and 7) concealed pass-through clauses.