Perspective
Seven recommendations to improve TMI's nuclear plant security that have gone unheeded.
Exelon
A Dynamic Mission: Protecting Utility Assets
State public service commissions are insisting that utilities adopt risk management programs, and are allowing less pass-through for those that don't.
Many electric utilities have been on high alert since Sept. 11 to protect the assets within their systems from cyber and physical attack. For instance, 21 U.S. nuclear reactors are located within five miles of an airport, but 96 percent of all U.S. reactors were designed without regard for the potential for impact from even a small aircraft.
The Top 10
The Ten Most Intriguing Business Decisions in the Post-Enron World.
10. Exelon throws in the towel on pebble bed; 9. Exelon, Entergy, Dominion ready to do the rounds on traditional nuclear; 8. AES wants out of Cilcorp marriage; 7. New-look Aquila goes hunting ...
People (May 1, 2002)
Carol A. Isles is vice president and controller for CMS Energy Corp.'s natural gas pipeline unit, CMS Gas Transmission Co. The California ISO has named a new market surveillance committee. Dennis L. Haider, president of WBI Energy Services Inc., has been named executive vice president of business development and strategic planning for Utility Services Inc. and Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. And others ...
Repeatable M&A: Creating a Value Chain Reaction
How building capabilities for repeated M&A can increase shareholder value.
Utilities that don’t prepare now for further consolidation cannot maximize value to their shareowners.
Utility Valuation: Shedding Light on the Black Box
Experts debate how energy companies should be valued in the wake of electric restructuring and Enron.
Credit downgrades, bankruptcy, and investor backlash against energy companies has exposed how inadequate the valuation of energy companies is. Experts debate just how to value the industry.
FERC At 25
A leaner bureaucracy sharpens its market-monitoring tools.
FERC turns 25 this year. With Enron’s collapse and California’s unraveled electric restructuring scheme, the silver anniversary reminiscing may be slightly muted.
The Aftermath of Alliance
What can we learn from its failure?
What does its downfall mean for the industry?
Off Peak
Off Peak
November 15, 2001
Markets Behaving Badly
To understand 'gaming,' be a gamer.
FERC Staff Member: What sort of behavior is wrong?
News Digest
Fortnightly
Fortnightly