Utilities are absorbing distressed IPPs, and raising alarm bells in the process.
Can economies of scale make the industry more stable?
California anticipates changes in energy policy under its new governor.
Wisconsinites don't fear 'Day 2.' But let's get the grid rights right.
Strange bedfellows may provide a new supply option.
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Do-nothing regulators scare off investment, raising prospects for yet another large-scale power failure.
EU nations are taking slow steps toward an integrated energy market, but they are many paces ahead of U.S. efforts.
Despite recent setbacks in establishing an acceptable balance of voting power among member nations, a new constitution for the European Union (EU) is expected to bring together dozens of separate nations into a single economic and political superpower and lead to an interconnected energy market throughout the European continent-one that will eventually stretch from Portugal to the Baltic Sea and from Ireland to Greece and perhaps beyond.
Electricity demand in parts of Europe is on the rise.
The European Union (EU), unlike the United States, enters 2004 with neither a constitution nor a European regulatory agency to oversee the EU's "single market" goals in energy. The EU, however, faces many cross-border issues affecting trade in electricity and natural gas, just as the United States does. While the member countries of the EU have become more energy efficient, new investment in all segments of electric infrastructure still is needed.