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Camp Flowgate
Southern Company
Bullish for Business
Forced consolidation of RTOs would set transmission owners free to go after profits.
Forced consolidation of RTOs would set transmission owners free to go after profits.
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John M. Melby at Automated Power Exchange, Robert T. Bucknell at Bay State Gas, Michael R. Mott at Dynegy, and more.
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Florida Water recently named four new senior executive vice presidents, plus news from the Independent Power Producers of New York, The Northwest Power Pool, and others.
News Digest
News Digest
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Online Trading Hubs: Interviews With CEOs
Is the value in commodities, or in managing the supply chain?
1. The original consortium of 15 energy companies, announced March 29, 2000, included American Electric Power, Cinergy, consolidated Edison Inc., Duke Enbergy, Edison International, Entergy, Exelon, firstEnergy Corp., FPL Group, PG&E Corp., Public Service Enterprise Group, Reliant Energy, Sempra Energy, Southern Company, and TXU.
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e-Commerce Collusion? The Trustbusters Take Aim
Privacy Concerns: Can Gaming Be Prevented?
The Federal Trade Commission likely will regulate those business-to-business Web portals, but how much?
Electric utility executives may be a step behind the Internet revolution, but in one key respect they may have an advantage over anyone else building an e-commerce Web portal for business-to-business (B2B) procurement.
Utility executives don't fear government regulation. They're already caught in the net.
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State regulators turn to telecom to salvage the clout they've lost in energy.
State public utility commissions now seem to spend more time on telecommunications than electricity or natural gas. That's their new power base. The telephone local loop marks the one place where state regulators still have clout.
To test that notion, let's see who attended last month's annual meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, held in San Antonio. By my count, out of the first 500 registered attendees, over 120 (24 percent) came from telecommunications firms.