LNG Makes a Comeback
After two dormant decades, the gas that travels in liquid form draws renewed interest, spurred by demand, shortage, and technology.
Brazil, Mexico Vie for Merchant Plant Dollars
One is closer, and the other hotter, but each banks on market reform to attract U.S. and European investors.
Off Peak
Boy Scouts in Wisconsin will save you from sticker shock.<b> </b>
Off Peak
April 1, 2001
"Read Your Bill, Ma'am?"
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But the standards board must surmount differences with electric brethren before repeating its gas industry success.
News Analysis
But the standards board must surmount differences with electric brethren before repeating its gas industry success.
Perhaps the Gas Industry Standards Board (GISB) wants to tackle electricity because it doesn't have much else to do anymore in the area of gas standards.
Perspective
Wall Street analysts favor the utilities whose leaders think like they do.
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The Power Exchange will hunt you down.
(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How outdated rules could deny tax deductions to nuclear plant owners.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.