Todays News Scans
COOPER unveils legislation to restructure TVA's business model - The Tennessean, TN
<http://www.tennessean.com/business/archives/03/09/39117685.shtml?Element_ID=39117685>
... Jim Cooper of Tennessee, the TVA Modernization Act, would enlarge the
power agency's board of directors to nine part-time members who would
serve staggered ...
CITY board discusses TVA rate hike, proposed city increase - Holly Springs South Reporter, MS
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1243&dept_id=143070&newsid=10140797&PAG=461&rfi=9>
... HSUD. Boone said the increase, the maximum approved by TVA, would offset
increasing maintenance and operating costs of HSUD. The ...
COOPER introduces TVA legislation - Nashville City Paper, TN
<http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section=9&screen=news&news_id=26449>
Congressman Jim Cooper introduced legislation Wednesday designed to overhaul
TVA's management structure and prepare the utility to take on the demands
of a ...
TVA weighs river changes - Morristown Citizen Tribune, TN
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10141383&BRD=1613&PAG=461&dept_id=159372&rfi=6>
... two years and $11 million studying the best way to run the seven-state
system and while one option is to make no changes, that's not likely to
happen, TVA ...
COMPANY Information Center - Business Wire (press release)
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... The event will include presentations by Mr. Peladeau and executives
of Quebecor World, Sun Media Corporation, Videotron, TVA Group, TVA Publishing,
SuperClub ...
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NEW technique could lead to widespread use of solar power - EurekAlert, DC
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-09/pu-ntc091103.php>
... The first organic solar cell, developed in 1986, was 1 percent efficient
-- that is, it converted only 1 percent of the available light energy
into electrical ...
DESPITE petition troubles, council candidate pushes on - Ithaca Times, NY
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10140646&BRD=1395&PAG=461&dept_id=216620&rfi=6>
... In addition, Smith would like to see more cops on bikes, he would like
to work on recruiting a new industry for the Ithaca Gun site - preferably
a solar cell ...
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CHUBAIS Plans 'Aggressive' Expansion in CIS - Moscow Times, Russia
<http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/09/09/043.html>
... UES already owns 50 percent of a hydroelectric plant in Kazakhstan
and 100 percent of one of Armenia, as well as an Armenian thermal plant.
...
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PUGET Sound Energy wants wind power - Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, WA
<http://www.djc.com/news/en/11148814.html>
BELLEVUE -- Puget Sound Energy is preparing to issue a request for proposals
for 150 megawatts of wind power. A meeting to discuss ...
SMALL NW utilities team up for wind power - Portland Business Journal, OR
<http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2003/09/08/daily35.html?jst=b_ln_hl>
Six small Northwest consumer-owned utilities and a renewable energy nonprofit
foundation have secured development rights to 20,000 acres of wind resource
land ...
WIND Power RFP for Renewable Energy Goal - SolarAccess.com News, NH
<http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=5079>
... September 11, 2003 [SolarAccess.com] Puget Sound Energy, issued a draft
request for proposal (RFP) to acquire approximately 150 MW of capacity
from wind power ...
GUJ NRE Coke plans wind power farm - Business Standard, India
<http://www.business-standard.com/today/story.asp?Menu=22&story=22435>
Kolkata-based Gujarat NRE Coke (GNCL), the largest manufacturer of LAM
coke in the non-captive segment, has tied up with Suzion Energy for setting
up a 1.25 ...
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SUSQUEHANNA nuclear power plant operating at reduced power after ... - Penn Live, PA
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The fire started at PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Luzerne County
around 11:15 pm Wednesday at a pump that provides one of the two reactors
with water ...
NUCLEAR plants in the hotseat - Environmental News Network, CA
<http://www.enn.com/news/2003-09-11/s_8086.asp>
... The heatwave revealed a dangerous flaw in France's vast system of nuclear
power plants, a deficiency that could have brought the country to the
brink of ...
HUNGARY To Export Spent Fuel to Russia Illegally - Pravda, Russia
<http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/89/357/10881_spent.html>
Ecologists say, spokespeople for the nuclear ministry and Paks nuclear
power plant have discussed a contract in Budapest, which stipulates the
export of ...
NO problem with Pilgrim? - Upper Cape Codder, MA
<http://www.townonline.com/bourne/news/local_regional/ucc_newucplgrim09102003.htm>
... of evacuation, Cape Cod Downwinders, a nonprofit group, say the peninsula
is a sitting duck if there's an accident or terrorist attack at Pilgrim
Nuclear Power ...
'WE have got to get rid of the scare factor' - Telegraph.co.uk, UK
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/09/07/ccmary07.xml&sSheet=/money/2003/09/11/ixcoms.html>
Hugh Collum is the human fuel rod of the unloved nuclear power industry.
In the fall-out from the recent power crisis in the US ...
GREENPEACE moves to close German nuclear plants over terror ... - TerraDaily
<http://www.terradaily.com/2003/030910164949.q0xcni9w.html>
Environmental watchdog Greenpeace said Wednesday it had moved to force
the closure of two German nuclear power plants because they were especially
vulnerable ...
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PUBLIC Gives Input on State Energy Policy - The Ledger, Florida
<http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030911/NEWS/309110382/1004>
... Suggestions dealt with energy conservation and education, regulatory
decisions and other issues. Winter Haven Mayor Mike Easterling ...
RESPONSES to Jay Bookman's column - Atlanta Journal Constitution, GA
<http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0903/10letters.html>
... I was surprised and disappointed when your editorial ("Numbers show
power of energy conservation," Aug. 27) incorrectly claimed ...
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SUGAR prices fall as CSR powers up - North Queensland Register, Australia
<http://nqr.farmonline.com.au/news.asp?editorial_id=54843>
... Beleaguered industry spirits were lifted last week with CSR announcing
a $100 million foray into electricity cogeneration at its Pioneer Mill
in Brandon. ...
GUJ NRE Coke plans wind power farm - Business Standard, India
<http://www.business-standard.com/today/story.asp?Menu=22&story=22435>
... energy resources. The company was also in the process of taking up
cogeneration of power from the waste heat of its chimneys. GNCL ...
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FIRE At Berwick Power Plant Reduces Power - WGAL Channel.com, PA
<http://www.thewgalchannel.com/news/2475382/detail.html>
BERWICK, Pa. -- PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Luzerne County
near Berwick is operating at reduced power because of a small oil fire.
... Susquehanna nuclear power plant operating at reduced power
after ...
SANTA Clara power plant OK'd - San Jose Mercury News, CA
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/6744377.htm>
A new power plant that will provide up to one-third of the city of Santa
Clara's power needs has gained final approval from the California Energy
Commission ...
VIRGINIA man outline Hamilton power-plant plan - Press of Atlantic City, NJ
<http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/atlantic/091103POWERPLANT_S11.html>
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP - A Virginia man proposing to build a power plant here
argues it is needed because it would provide additional power to Atlantic
County in ...
SANTEE Cooper to begin construction on third green power plant - Columbia State, SC
<http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/6742215.htm>
BELTON, SC - Santee Cooper has signed a deal to construct its third green
power plant that turns methane gas from decaying trash into electricity
at Anderson ... Santee Cooper signs deal for trash methane power
plant near ...
POWER plant in airport's future - Charlotte Business Journal, NC
<http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2003/09/08/story4.html>
Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, concerned about the reliability
of its energy supply, is considering building its own power plant. ...
POWER plant, utility rate veto, Wachs resignation also on council ... - West Liberty Index, IA
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1105&dept_id=151632&newsid=10135759&PAG=461&rfi=9>
The council heard an update on the progress of an expansion at the power
plant. Last year, the city purchased to new electrical ...
REPORT says power plant's emissions levels are safe - Concord Monitor, NH
<http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/news/local2003/091003psnh_2003.shtml>
For years, Allenstown and Pembroke residents have blamed the Bow power
plant for blowing a sooty haze over their towns and causing respiratory
ailments such as ...
SETTLEMENT good news for developer of power plant - Washington Observer Reporter, PA
<http://www.observer-reporter.com/296056424501662.bsp>
... settlement in LTV Steel Co.'s bankruptcy case involving the company's
environmental liabilities could help pave the way for the development
of a power plant in ...
KOSTROMA GRES power plant sets up a subsidiary. - Gateway 2 Russia, Russia
<http://www.gateway2russia.com/st/art_139256.php>
Kostroma GRES power plant has set up a 100% subsidiary - Kostroma GRES
Agricultural Enterprise. Central Region's FSC sealed Aug. ...
SANTEE Cooper to begin construction on third green power plant - Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL
<http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030911/APN/309110526>
Santee Cooper has signed a deal to construct its third green power plant
that turns methane gas from decaying trash into electricity at Anderson
County ...
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DANA Corporation expands global commitment to Fuel Cell component ... - Fuel Cell Today, UK
<http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,3379,00.html>
Frankfurt, Germany, September 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Dana Corporation today
announced that it is expanding its global engineering network by opening
new Fuel Cell ...
WAYNE State University to offer degree in fuel cell technology - Fuel Cell Today, UK
<http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,3377,00.html>
Leading the charge into the study of fuel cell development, Wayne State
University is preparing to offer one of the nation's first master's degree
programs in ... Stuart Weathers Blackout via Its H2 Backup, Ballard
Launches New ...
DANA Corporation Expands Global Commitment To Fuel-Cell Component ... - H2Carsbiz, Denmark
<http://www.h2cars.biz/artman/publish/article_248.shtml>
Dana Corporation has announced that it is expanding its global engineering
network by opening new Fuel Cell Support Centers in Rugby, England, and
Toyohashi ...
CHIP Maker ST Eyes Fuel Cell to Power Mobile Phone - Planet Ark, NY
<http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/22186/story.htm>
AMSTERDAM - Franco-Italian chip maker STMicroelectronics said yesterday
it had created technology for a tiny fuel cell to power mobile phones
and increase the ...
HYUNDAI'S Fuel Cell Vehicle Plans - Fuel Cell Today, UK
<http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,3381,00.html>
Hyundai is aiming to make fuel-cell vehicles available for lease on the
US market next year. The Korean car maker has joined with ...
DANA Corporation Expands Global Commitment to Fuel-Cell Component ... - Yahoo News (press release)
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030910/clw044_1.html>
10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dana Corporation (NYSE: DCN - News) today
announced that it is expanding its global engineering network by opening
new Fuel Cell ...
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CFIB pegs cost of blackout to local business at more than $100M - Ottawa Business Journal, Canada
<http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/278624803107618.php>
Last month's massive blackout cost small business in the Ottawa area $100
million to $180 million, and that's a conservative estimate, according
to the ...
BLACKOUT hurt most Ont. small businesses: poll - CTV, Canada
<http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1063298879386_58708079/?hub=Canada>
TORONTO - Last month's electricity blackout hurt 82 per cent of small businesses
in Ontario and cost the provincial economy between $1 billion and $2 billion
...
BLACKOUT Probe Ready in Weeks - Newsday
<http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usener113449644sep11,0,583028.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines>
Washington - Deputy Energy Secretary Kyle McSlarrow said yesterday that
an investigation into the cause of a massive blackout that darkened homes
from Ohio to ... Regulator says inquiry into blackout on fast
track - Houston Chronicle Feds Expedite Blackout Investigation -
ABC News Demand grows for regional transmission monitors at Senate
...
BLACKOUT hurt 82% of small businesses: survey - Toronto Star, Canada
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Last month's electricity blackout hurt 82 per cent of small businesses
in Ontario and cost the provincial economy between $1 billion and $2 billion,
the ...
STATE studies blackout procedures - Pioneer Press Online, IL
<http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/no/09-11-03-103502.html>
The recent power blackout dubbed the worst in United States history, prompted
a joint House and Senate legislative meeting in Chicago to study how vulnerable
...
BLACKOUT toll could reach $2-billion: CFIB - The Globe and Mail, Canada
<http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030911.wbbiz0911/BNStory/Business/>
More than 80 per cent of Ontario small businesses were hurt by last month's
power blackout, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business said Thursday
in a ...
BIGGEST blackout caused by 1 amp fuse - Guardian, UK
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1039646,00.html>
Britain's biggest blackout for 25 years, which plunged large parts of London
into darkness, was the result of a one amp fuse being fitted in place
of a five ...
LOCAL TV blackout looming for Colts - Indianapolis Star, IN
<http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/1/073180-1931-094.html>
... For the third time in the past four regular-season home games, a local
television blackout appears inevitable. Approximately 3,700 ...
TREE in Ohio May Have Been Behind Blackout - Smart Money
<http://www.smartmoney.com/bn/ON/index.cfm?story=ON-20030910-001720-2339>
WASHINGTON -- A tree in Walton Hills, Ohio, may stand at the center of
the nation's largest power blackout, Thursday's Wall Street Journal reported.
...
HEALTH groups call for blackout action - Ithaca Journal, NY
<http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20030911/localnews/232627.html>
... The massive Aug. 14 blackout shouldn't automatically trigger a power-plant
building spree, activists said at a news conference held while Gov. ...
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CONTROL System for Swedish Biomass Boilers - SolarAccess.com News, NH
<http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=5076>
September 11, 2003 [SolarAccess.com]Sweden-based Benima has been commissioned
by Aker Kvaerner to supply the control system, including its programming,
for the ...
BIOMASS energy for high school on hold - Tahoe Daily Tribune, CA
<http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030911/NEWS/309110105>
Many members of an advisory commission for the Tahoe Regional Planning
Agency say a biomass facility -- which would turn wood chips into heat,
warm water and ...
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EAST or west, Indian start-ups are still the best - Economic Times, India
<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=176803>
... University of Madras and an MS in chemistry from Case Western Reserve
University, develops dye-sensitised, nanocrystalline, semiconductor-based
photovoltaic ...
NEW technique could lead to widespread use of solar power - EurekAlert, DC
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-09/pu-ntc091103.php>
... Because of these qualities, researchers have pursued organic photovoltaic
films for many years, but have been plagued with problems of efficiency,
said Forrest ...
FRONIUS Dials In New Software - SolarAccess.com News, NH
<http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=5078>
Brighton, Michigan - September 11, 2003 [SolarAccess.com] Austria-based
Fronius, which recently entered the US solar photovoltaic (PV) inverter
market, is ...
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THE Gas Company Offers a Broad Range of Energy Efficiency ... - Hispanic PR Wire (press release), FL
<http://www.hispanicprwire.com/news_in.php?id=1043&cha=8&PHPSE>
LOS ANGELES, CA--(HISPANIC PR WIRE)--July 14, 2003--Southern California
Gas Co. (The Gas Company) has launched its "energy-efficiency clearinghouse,"
a one ...
COLORADO Funds Renewable Energy Grants - SolarAccess.com News, NH
<http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=5080>
Denver Colorado, Septeber 11, 2003 [SolarAccess.com] Nearly US$500,000
in grants have been awarded to fund renewable energy, energy efficiency
and pollution ...
BCA easy as ABC - Infolink Architecture & Building, Australia
<http://www.infolink.com.au/articles/87/0c019b87.asp>
BHP Steel has developed a software program to specifically help builders,
specifiers and customers adapt to new mandatory BCA energy efficiency
requirements in ...
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SASKPOWER chooses Atco as partner in 150-megawatt wind generating ... - Canada.com, Canada
<http://www.canada.com/news/business/story.asp?id=BDF1D361-05B9-4525-85E4-241D879B0112>
CALGARY (CP) - SaskPower has named Atco Power as its partner in a venture
to erect between 50 and 150 wind turbines to generate as much as 150 megawatts
of ...
MORE wind power - Canada.com, Canada
<http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=B177CF16-7077-4921-A2DB-FDE0EB09513D>
... Southern on Monday at Innovation Place in Saskatoon to announce ATCO
will partner with SaskPower International on a series of wind farms, built
in 50-megawatt ...
SHAW Awarded EPC Contract for 500 Megawatt Power Plant in New ... - Business Wire (press release)
<http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/cb_headline.cgi?&story_file=bw.090303/232465425&directory=/google&header_file=header.htm&footer_file=>
... Stone & Webster, Inc., has been awarded an approximately $570 million
negotiated fixed price EPC contract by Astoria Energy, LLC for Phase I
of a 1000 megawatt ...
VIRGINIA man outline Hamilton power-plant plan - Press of Atlantic City, NJ
<http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/atlantic/091103POWERPLANT_S11.html>
... future, according to company materials. The third 170-megawatt turbine
could be brought in as needed. When both phases are complete ...
NUCLEAR-GENERATED power increases in Missouri, Illinois - St. Louis Business Journal, MO
<http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2003/09/08/daily16.html>
During the first five months of 2003, Missouri's nuclear generation rose
5.5 percent from 3.7 million megawatt hours in the first five months of
2002 to about ...
NUCLEAR-GENERATED power increases in Kansas, Missouri - Kansas City Business Journal, MO
<http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2003/09/08/daily3.html>
During the first five months of 2003, Kansas' nuclear generation of electricity
climbed 43.7 percent to nearly 4.3 million megawatt hours, compared with
2.96 ...
CHECK Your Megawatt Load Online! - Slate
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2087138/>
... So New York is out of the woods for today-assuming not too many New
Yorkers turn on their computers to check their current megawatt load.
...
STATE OKs SMUD's Cosumnes Power Project - Sacramento Business Journal, CA
<http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2003/09/08/daily17.html>
A 500-megawatt facility planned by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District
near the site of the closed Rancho Seco nuclear power plant received licensing
...
MDU Resources Provides 2003 and 2004 Earnings Guidance - Business Wire (press release)
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20030909005845&headlineSearchConfigBO=1062500400000%201063164744000%20%20groupByDate%20%201%207%201062500400000%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%201000151%20true%20true%20&newsLang=en&beanID=2055223794&viewID=news_view>
... from the North Dakota Public Service Commission and the South Dakota
Public Utilities Commission on the company's plans to purchase energy
from a 20-megawatt ...
SANTEE Cooper to begin construction on third green power plant - Columbia State, SC
<http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/6742215.htm>
... A 2.2-megawatt plant in Horry County serves more than 1,000 customers
and has operated since September 2001. The utiltity is also ...
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