Electric Light & Power Articles, May 2009

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Finance

Tough Regulation Gets Tougher

Understanding the compliance emphasis of FERC and its regulatory counterparts

Regulatory Cooperation Is Key in Dealing With Credit Crisis

Everyone?consumers, small businesses and large corporations?feels the effects of the credit crisis.

Have You Scrubbed Your Congressman Today?

The lack of clear environmental emission standards is causing the power generation industry to miss taking advantage of low commodity prices.

Exclusive C Three Equity Index

First Positive Month Since August 2008

Energy Management

What Is Demand Response?

?'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, ?it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.

Engaging Consumers in EE Programs

During the housing boom, consumers who bought new homes or upgraded existing havens were most concerned about features such as granite countertops, hardwood floors ...

Renewables

Wind Power: Policy Drivers and Utility Issues

Change is in the wind. Having grown tremendously during the past several years, the wind energy industry is poised for continued expansion.

Renewable Energies, Pillar of European Energy Policy

Until the late 1990s, low oil and energy prices without carbon constraints created the conditions for a European economy dependent on fossil fuels.

Generation

Making the Business Case for Nuclear Renaissance

The national unemployment rate in February, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, was 8.1 percent -- the highest since 1983...

Grassroots Nuclear Advocacy

On a Sunday afternoon in December 2004, I visited with my sister and brother-in-law.

Is Yucca Mountain Dead?

The US Nuclear Energy Northern Nevada Chapter averages 15 attendees each month and is growing.

New Coal Ash Use: Strong, Lightweight Alternative to Concrete Without Cement

Each year, coal-burning power plants, steel factories and similar facilities in the United States produce more than 125 million tons of waste, much of it fly and bottom ash left from combustion.

IT/CIS & CRM

Focus on the CIO: Wise Guys on Cyberspies, the Dollar?s Demise

Hardly anyone in the U.S. government or utility industry will go on record in response to an April 8 report in The Wall Street Journal that foreign cyberspies penetrated the U.S. Power grid...

CS Week

When you serve a vital, vigorous industry such as the electric, gas, water and wastewater utilities, you must know their challenges ...

CS Week in Review

More than 1,100 people attended CS Week Conference 33 from May 18-22 at the Gaylord National Harbor Resort in Washington, D.C.

T&D

Empower Field Workers With Mobility

Part of optimizing performance in power and utilities groups is having the right information in the right place at the right time.

Automating the Field With a System Solution: The Next Step in Mobile Dispatch

PPL Electric Utilities is not new to computer-aided dispatch and mobile device technology.

Q1 T&D Market Index Continues to Fall

Reflecting continued economic distress, Denali Intelligence?s T&D Market Index decreased 5.5 percent in the first quarter of 2009 ...

Commentary

Yucca Mountain Still a No-go After 20 Years

Having worked 13 years at a nuclear power plant before transitioning to magazine editor, I have been a nuclear energy proponent for many years.

Columns

Taking it Into Account

Who Will Administer the Greenhouse Gas Market?

The effectiveness of legislation to cap and trade greenhouse gases (GHGs) might depend on the choice of program administrator.

Performance and Strategy Alignment

Stress Test Business Decision Support

In our uncertain, volatile business environment, it is necessary to step back, look at our decision processes and ask, ?Do we have robust processes to best manage our energy business??