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Exelon lays out plans for new Baltimore headquarters
Feb 8 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Hanah Cho The Baltimore Sun - The old McCormick site and Baltimore City Community College's Bard Building were among the top spots considered for Exelon Corp.'s planned new Baltimore headquarters, Exelon officials revealed Wednesday. More...
Ameren moving unit headquarters to Collinsville
Feb 8 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Jeffrey Tomich St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Ameren Corp. is moving the headquarters of its wholesale generating subsidiary, Ameren Energy Resources, to Collinsville. More...
Fitch Affirms Southern Calif Public Power Auth 2007A&B Gas Project Revs; Revises Outlook to Positive
NEW YORK, Feb 08, 2012 -- BUSINESS WIRE - Fitch Ratings has affirmed the Southern California Public Power Authority's gas project revenue bonds series 2007A and 2007B at 'BBB'. More...
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Frederick considers new energy wholesaler from Nebraska
Feb 8 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Scott Rochat Daily Times-Call, Longmont, Colo. - A Nebraska-based energy wholesaler is wooing Frederick, which has nine months to decide whether to switch providers. More...
Fitch Affirms SteelRiver Transmission Co.'s Senior Secured Notes at 'BBB-'; Outlook Stable
NEW YORK, Feb 08, 2012 -- BUSINESS WIRE - Fitch Ratings has affirmed the rating on secured debt due in 2017 ($525 million outstanding) issued by SteelRiver Transmission Company LLC (SRTC), as follows. More...
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PTCs and Cash Grants Creating a "Green Energy Bubble"?

By Mark Wooldridge - Members of Colorado Delegation Pick Up Bipartisan Push for Extension of Wind Tax Credit - Seven members of the Colorado more...

Can We take the sting out of Smart Grid and Smart Metering deployment?

By Alok Misra - THe answer is yes we can.We in India qre very close to doing it.Deskilling the jobs and standardisation is the more...

A Perfect Example of the Normalization of Deviance in the Power Industry

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Summary: The article A how-to guide for hacking your local utility (and what to do now that it is out there), more...

Officials Return From Western Gas Fields ‘Invigorated’

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Smart Grid: SoS "… interacting in unpredictable ways that regulators and investors cannot comprehend

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Summary: Similar to financial markets, system crashes are expected in smart grid, because they have been though to be just more...
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Harnessing Disruption - Dealing with the Threat of Technology and Competition

 Thursday Feb 16, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

This utility industry is on track to spend $1.6 trillion in the coming two decades on generation, transmission and distribution. Clearly, new ways of creating and delivering power will change the business. How does such a capital intensive industry make more...

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...
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3rd Annual Utility Customer Experience Management Conference

 Wednesday Feb 8, 2012 - Friday Feb 10, 2012 - San Antonio, TX - United States

The 3rd Annual Utility Customer Experience Management Conference will be a three day, industry focused event, specific to those within Customer Service, Customer Relations, Customer Communications and Credit and Collections. more...

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...
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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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