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Wall Street analysts favor the utilities whose leaders think like they do.
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(1) the regulatory rate freeze imposed under the state's restructuring scheme,
(2) the state-imposed duty to serve that forced Edison to supply electricity to retail customers regardless of price, and
(3) the Jan. 4 order by the state public utility commission that Edison said barred it from obtaining funds to meet its payment obligations to the PX.
No PAIN, No Gain: With Data Networks It's Not All Value-Added
How Internet EDI beats the private VANs <br> and ensures Privacy, Authentication, Integrity, and Non-repudiation-more or less.
Decommissioning Funds: Snagged on Tax Law?
How outdated rules could deny tax deductions to nuclear plant owners.
1 1999 TNT 204-24 PECO Energy's Testimony at Finance Hearing on Tax Issues of Electric Power Industry. (Hereinafter, "PECO Energy Testimony.")
2 Treas. Reg. 1.468A (c)(2). For a more detailed explanation, see Nuclear Energy Institute Policy Briefs, "Why Tax Treatment of Decommissioning Trust Funds Must Be Updated to Reflect New Business Conditions," http://www.nei.org/doc.asp?catnum=3&catid=221.
The Gas-fired Future: Boom or Bust?
Last year brought prices not seen for decades. So consumers will buy less gas, just as before, and send the forecasts out the window.
1 For examples of the degree to which buildings have conservation features such as multiple glazing and exterior or interior shading and awnings the reader is referred to "A Look at Commercial Buildings in 1995: Characteristics, Energy Consumption and Energy Expenditures," DOE/EIA - 0625 (95), October 1998. For information on conservation practice in the residential sector see "A Look at Residential Energy Consumption in 1997," DOE/EIA - 0632 (97), November 1999.
Off Peak
There's nothing quite like a consumer scorned..<b> </b>
Off Peak
March 15, 2001
'I See Now I Was Naive'
There's nothing quite like a consumer scorned..
Excerpts from letters sent by private citizens to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and made a part of the official in RDocket No. EL00-95-000.
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With power markets now regional, the Pacific Northwest ponders responsibility for blackouts and outages.
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An ode to the customer, the measure of all things.