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Jesse T. Williams, Sr., To Retire From FirstEnergy Board of Directors
AKRON, Ohio, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire - FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) today announced that Jesse T. Williams, Sr., will retire from the company's Board of Directors, effective March 1, 2012, following 20 years of service. More...
PG&E Corporation Elects Veteran Gas Executive Fred J. Fowler to Board of Directors
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire - PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG) today announced the election of 40-year natural gas industry veteran Fred J. More...
PSEG Declares 3.6% Increase in Quarterly Dividend
NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire - The board of directors of Public Service Enterprise Group (NYSE: PEG) declared a 3.6% increase in the company's common stock dividend today. More...
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Vectren profits up in '11 Nonutility operations key
Feb 21 - Evansville Courier & Press - Evansville-based Vectren Corp. saw its profits increase last year, mostly because of improvements in the nonutility side of its business. More...
Fitch Rates Louisville G&E and Kentucky Utilities Co. Commercial Paper Programs 'F2'
NEW YORK, Feb 21, 2012 -- BUSINESS WIRE - Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'F2' rating to the newly established 4(2) commercial paper (CP) programs of Louisville Gas and Electric Co. More...
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FERC's Order 1000 as a Potential Example of Over-Regulated America

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - As a short, simple (but not simplistic), and highly important complement to the blog post Is Power Industry Regulation Helping more...

Is Power Industry Regulation Helping Crush the Life Out of America’s Economy?

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Is the power industry one important instance of the Over-regulated America: the home of laissez-faire is being suffocated by excessive more...

"Shale Gas Wars: From Pennsylvania to North Carolina." Dr. Daniel Fine will speak on Shale Gas in NC

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The bigger problems were the PTCs and cash grants

By Mark Wooldridge - ACCCE Statement on U.S. Senate Effort to Restrain EPA's Job-Destroying Regulation - The United States Senate today took the first more...

Obama’s budget good for energy efficiency

Blogger Photo By Elisa Wood Lisa Cohn -   By Elisa Wood February 16, 2012   President Obama's 2013 budget caused a lot of smiles this week among more...
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Grid Analytics Issues, Trends, & Drivers

 Wednesday Feb 29, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

With the realization of the smart grid, the utility industry has experienced fundamental change over the last decade. Entirely new areas of expertise, value, challenge, and opportunity have emerged. Right at the heart of these opportunities and challenges is how more...

Managing the Data Explosion: The Reality Behind MDM Implementation

 Thursday Mar 1, 2012 - 12:00 AM Eastern - Virtual Event

Many utilities are planning to implement a meter data management system to leverage their investment in advanced metering infrastructure, creating operational benefits and customer benefits out of Big Data. more...

Energy Utilities as Underappreciated Socially Responsible Investments

 Tuesday Mar 6, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

When one thinks of socially responsible investing (SRI), utilities are not typically top-of-mind. Utilities are rarely considered as candidates for the large and rapidly growing number of SRI funds-funds which are projected to reach as much as $9 trillion in more...
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EnergyBiz Leadership Forum

 Monday Mar 19, 2012 - Wednesday Mar 21, 2012 - Pentagon City, District of Columbia - USA

Join us at the 2012 EnergyBiz Leadership Forum to collaborate with your peers and get the insights you need to make the best decisions for your organization. more...

KEMA's 23rd Retail Executive Forum

 Tuesday Apr 3, 2012 - Wednesday Apr 4, 2012 - San Antonio, TX - USA

Retail energy providers are rapidly responding to market conditions and new opportunities, which is creating unprecedented growth in the competitive power markets. In order to sustain their momentum, energy providers are expanding into new markets, developing technological innovations, implementing creative more...
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In the Head of Energy Secretary Chu

By Ferdinand E. Banks
As most readers of this short paper probably know, Dr. Steven Chu is the energy secretary of the United States, a physicist, and a Nobel Laureate. Discovery Magazine, in its latest issue (2011), selected what more...
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Past, present, future

By Duncan Sinclair
The credit crisis that has dominated the international agenda for the last year has been largely driven by systemic shocks to global financial markets, yet one of the biggest shocks to individual financial institutions came more...
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From Shovel Ready Projects to Sustainable Partnerships

By Roger Feldman
The most important of all the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the "Stimulus Act" or "ARRA") initiatives could be the reformulation of the DoE Renewable Energy Loan Guarantee Program. This could be true more...
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The American (Energy) Patient

By Ferdinand E. Banks
I would like to begin by stating that while the subject of energy economics has still not attained its 'critical mass' where book-length literature is concerned, there are an increasing number of short, non-technical papers more...
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Kyoto and the Stern Review of Climate Change

By Ferdinand E. Banks
In preparing the new printing of my energy economics textbook, several widely publicized topics were deliberately omitted. One of these was the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. On several occasions I heard more...
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