Going Global: The Top 10 Risks
What utilities ought to know before doing business overseas.
An investigation into the top 10 risks of foreign investment shows the curses and the blessings of wanting to be a global utility.
Coming to America? Euro Money Looks for Mergers
U.S. firms top the list of prospects.
Europeans believe that if they can achieve 12 to 14 percent on equity-with earnings growing at 8 to 10 percent-that would be attractive.
European Power Forum: New Rules, New Players
Top executives and regulators discuss European liberalization and U.S. investment opportunities overseas.
Exclusive interviews with regulators from the UK and European Parliament, as well as Duke Energy International and TXU Europe Energy Trading, on investment opportunities and regulatory obstacles overseas.
Western Europe: The New Hot Spot
New energy demands are testing power supplies and creating new opportunities for power plant development in some countries.
Europe may be ripe for power plant development, as demand for power is projected to outstrip supply in select areas. RDI opens up its European database and reveals what areas are hot for investment.
Electricity: It's a Scream
Hollywood animators take a jab at the energy crisis.
Their lights don’t run on electricity or natural gas—that would be too easy. In Monstropolis, the lights are powered by the screams of little children.
FERC's California Caps: Just Smoke and Mirrors?
Industry experts debate whether so-called “price mitigation measures” miraculously solved the California crisis.
Wholesale electricity prices are lower in California than they were last May, before FERC implemented price caps. But there is widespread disagreement over whether the caps were the cause of the lower prices, or merely coincidental with other downward pressures.
Overbuilding? Fuhgeddaboutit!
Taking a different view on merchant development.
A response to the recent article “Power Shortages? Fuhgeddaboutit!” by Betsy S. Vaninetti.
2002 Will Be a Pivotal Year
While 2001 can be characterized by uncertainty, by the end of 2002, we should know a lot more about what power markets are likely to look like over the next five to 10 years.
People (Jan. 15, 2002)
Richard L. Rudman has been named to the new position of executive vice president at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Rudman joined EPRI in 1973, and was named COO in 1996. And others ...
Pat Packs a Punch
FERC's new chairman runs roughshod over a reeling industry.
By a vote of 3-1, FERC had crowned the Midwest Independent System Operator—MISO—as belle of the ball. In so doing, it scorned the proposed Alliance Regional Transmission Organization.