People
People for March 2004.
Positions filled at Allegheny Energy, Constellation NewEnergy, Xcel Energy, and others.
Nuclear
U.S. Glut, Global Opportunities
Where will the next development opportunities occur?
Naturally, many uncertainties cloud the forecast of regional and technological growth. China appears poised to accelerate orders for steam coal plants over the next two years. Issues of financing and market transparency may stifle needed development in Latin America and the former Soviet Union. Finally, today’s high natural gas prices, if sustained, may undercut the CCGT as the most economical power generation choice.
Rethinking Restructuring
Two Cato analysts suggest a return to the past-vertical integration, but now with no state regulators.
The defeat of the energy bill in the Senate last year has thrown electricity restructuring back on its heels. There clearly is no consensus among politicians or academics regarding how this industry ought to be organized or how it might best be regulated. Finding our way out of this morass requires a reconsideration of how we got to this dismal point in our regulatory journey. Doing so suggests a surprising series of conclusions about what has gone wrong and where to go from here.
People
People for February 2004.
New opportunities at Duke Energy, Northeast Utilities, Progress Energy, and more.
New Nuclear Construction: Still on Hold
A number of factors point to expanded nuclear generation. But when?
Skeptics believe investors will continue to shy away from nuclear in the coming decades, but conditions are changing, with several factors pointing to expanded nuclear generation.
Generation Roundtable: Power Flux
Generators struggle to plan for the future as they cope with an unstable present.
In a roundtable discussion, generation experts explain how environmental regulations, industry restructuring, investor confidence, and the bottom line are affecting their decision-making.
People
People for December 2003.
New opportunities at ScottishPower, Chesapeake Utilities, NRG Energy Inc., and others.
The Modern Utility: Still a Black Box?
Wall Street bankers say utilities are not effectively telling their story.
How do you value an investor-owned utility? Ever since the Enron debacle, the credit crisis and the economic downturn, many in the investment community say that there exists a need for utilities to better communicate their business vision and corporate model — particularly now that the economy is headed into an economic upswing and utilities will have to compete with higher-yielding financial instruments such as U.S. treasuries, or competing equities with higher-paying dividends.
People
People for November 1, 2003
New opportunities at the Nuclear Energy Institute, the Analysis Group, Southwest Gas Corp., and others.
People
People for October 15, 2003.
New positions at Great Plains Energy Inc., Wisconsin Energy Corp., Independent Energy Producers of Maine, and others.