Entergy

Economic Dispatch Redux

The venerated process may get a makeover.

While issues involving ratemaking treatment and stranded assets might prove challenging, the simple logic of expanding economic dispatch processes is difficult to fault. Now, if the industry and its regulators can accept the notion of interim measures on the road to market reform, expanded economic dispatch seems like a bankable policy trend for the near term.

People

People for August 2003.

New positions at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Organization of MISO States Inc., FPL Group Inc., and others.

People

New Hires:

New Hires:

Progress Energy shareholders re-elected Edwin B. Borden, James E. Bostic Jr., David L. Burner, Richard L. Daugherty, and Richard A. Nunis as Class II directors of the company. They will serve three-year terms.

Maryland Gov. Robert L. Erlich Jr. named state delegate Kenneth D. Schisler chairman of the Maryland Public Service Commission. Schisler succeeds Catherine I. Riley.

People

New Hires:

New Hires:

Progress Energy shareholders re-elected Edwin B. Borden, James E. Bostic Jr., David L. Burner, Richard L. Daugherty, and Richard A. Nunis as Class II directors of the company. They will serve three-year terms.

Maryland Gov. Robert L. Erlich Jr. named state delegate Kenneth D. Schisler chairman of the Maryland Public Service Commission. Schisler succeeds Catherine I. Riley.

Culture Shock

By 2020, nearly half the workforce will be female and non-white. Are utilities ready?

By 2020, nearly half the workforce will be female and non-white. Are utilities ready?

People

New Positions:

New Positions:

Virginia's State Corporation Commission (SCC) named Howard M. Spinner as director of its Division of Economics and Finance, replacing Richard J. Williams. Williams is retiring after 22 years with the commission. Spinner has been with the SCC since 1998.

The Western Electricity Coordinating Council board of directors elected Jack L. King as its chair and Ronald D. Nunnally and Tim Newton as vice chairs.

People

New Positions:

New Positions:

President Bush named Dr. Nils J. Diaz chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), succeeding Richard A. Meserve. Diaz's current NRC term expires in 2006. Diaz also is professor-emeritus of Nuclear Engineering Sciences at the University of Florida.

Pantellos named Jim Neikirk president and CEO. Neikirk spent five years at Entergy Corp. as vice president and chief procurement officer.