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Preventing Tomorrow's Blackout

Submitted by mburr on Wed, 2012-12-19 13:52
Recent outages show the importance of proper transmission system design. As the grid becomes more complex, meeting NERC reliability standards and proper assessment of power grid reliability will require closer coordination between system planners and protection engineers.
Recent outages show the importance of proper transmission system design. As the grid becomes more complex, meeting NERC reliability standards and proper assessment of power grid reliability will require closer coordination between system planners and protection engineers.

REFF Latin America and Caribbean

Submitted by jcole on Mon, 2012-12-03 13:53

Latin America and the Caribbean are making great strides in their development of  renewable energy.  This creates a real business opportunity for bankers and investors  to get in early and to invest in the solid assets and sustainable revenue  streams offered by these clean technologies.  The 3rd Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Latin America and Caribbean (REFF-LAC) will allow project developers to me

Transactions (December 2012)

Entergy Mississippi to spin off its transmission business to ITC; Calpine acquires Bosque Power merchant plant in Texas; WPS acquires Fox Energy plant; E.On buys interest in Magic Valley wind farm; plus bond issues by Nstar, Western Mass. Electric, Texas Eastern Transmission, Alabama Power, and NSP totaling $1.55 billion.

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When Labor's Locked Out

ConEd, public safety, and the regulatory response.

Last summer’s union lockout at Consolidated Edison raised novel legal and regulatory questions that remain unresolved. Organized labor can strike, and management can respond, but do state utility commissions have authority to end a lockout that threatens service?

Byline: 

Scott Strauss and Peter Hopkins

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Submitted by Joe Paparello on Fri, 2012-11-30 13:07
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Perfect Superstorm

Could carbon taxes emerge in the election aftermath?

Since Obama won reelection, we must ask whether we’d rather have EPA cracking down on carbon emissions, or whether a legislated framework would be better for everyone.

Byline: 

Michael T. Burr, Editor-in-Chief

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Maximum Burden

The electricity price increases from the proposed EPA Utility MACT will act as a regressive tax on the elderly.

Although EPA claims its tough new clean air regulations will improve public health, in fact they’ll measurably degrade the health of Florida seniors.

Byline: 

Roger H. Bezdek

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