Electricity News 2001
192 news stories- Agency Sets Strict Market Power Standard, Asserts Control Over LNG Plants
- California Bracing for Big Losses On Surplus Power
- Commission to Re-Examine Energy Deregulation
- Enron Canada seeks court order to stay afloat
- Enron May Scrap All 4 Power Projects in Japan
- Enron Seeks Bankruptcy Protection, Sues Dynegy Over Failed Acquisition Deal
- Ferc Urges Requirement of Power Rtos
- Government of Canada Targets Key Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Government of Canada Targets Key Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Harris Confirms Competitive Electricity Market Will Open On May 1, 2002
- House panel may use subpoenas in Enron probe
- ISO New England Can't Recall Reserve Pwr Sales To NY-FERC
- Judge denies Enron Canada's survival bid
- Lake Erie Link Project Seeks FERC Approval
- Lesson of Enron: Electricity Deregulation Is A Disaster, Says Foundation for Taxpayer And Consumer Rights
- Neptune on track to build NJ-NY power cable
- New Calls for 'Re-Regulation'
- Newfoundland receives Alcoa hydro, smelter study
- Now Over, Power Crisis Continues to Have Impact on Northwest
- Ontario to launch IPO for Hydro One power company
- Tennessee Valley Authority Chair Supports Electric Utility Deregulation Bill
- Texas Power Providers Can't Set Rates Until Regulators Set `Price to Beat'
- TransCanada and AltaGas to buy Enron's Sundance
- Allegheny Energy, Duquesne Light Ask Pennsylvania for Electric Rate Increase
- Arkansas Regulators Eye Delay, Repeal Of Elec Dereg
- British Energy eyes more Canada investments
- Consortium Formed To Commercialize Ocean Wave Power
- Doe's Vision 21 Program Sets Goal of Zero Emission Power Plant of The Future, in An Advisory by Industrialinfo.COM
- Dynegy to buy once-mighty Enron
- Energy Companies in Florida Combine
- EPA says Senate utility emissions bill too costly
- Federal Regulators Say California's Electricity Buyers Got Unfair Breaks
- Feds Intervene in Energy Dispute
- FERC gives US utilities more time to join RTOs
- FERC to revise power tariffs, set refund plan
- Hydro announces lower than anticipated rate increases for customers
- Hydro-Quebec to raise domestic rates in 2004
- IEEE Sets Next-generation 802.11 Standard
- National Grid to manage US Midwest Alliance Transco
- New Breed of Electric Companies Has Its Eye on South Carolina
- New England Congressmen Seek Equal Representation On RTO
- New Head of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Faces Daunting Task
- Newfoundland Power Inc. has reported that its electrical rates to customers will decrease in 2002.
- Northeast US/Canada winter power adequate-NPCC
- NY Task Force To Assess Security At Nuclear Plants
- Ontario eyes non-profit option for power firm
- Ontario's deregulation plans could be moved up
- Ontario's nuclear power plants top expectations
- Power Providers Want Texas to Start Deregulation on Time
- Profit drops at Canadian power supplier BC Hydro
- Southwest Power Pool Reports Oklahoma Can Handle Present Electric Demand
- The Ibew's New Union Hall in Silicon Valley Is the Largest Commercial Solar Power Installation West of the Mississippi
- US Sens To Propose Federalizing Nuclear Plant Guards
- Ability Test Phase Nears Conclusion
- Altek Power Corporation - Province Grants Final Approvals on Fort Macleod Power Project
- Bush Urges Congress to Pass Energy Bill
- Calif. regulators reject key electric rate plan
- Calif. to get fix for electric line bottleneck
- Canada's Northwest Territories Sponsors New Green Energy Power Development, in An Advisory by Industrialinfo.COM
- City of Belleville, Ontario Invests in The Future of Its Hydro Consumers
- Electricity Distributors Association, Ontario Power Generation Launch $5-Million "LDC Tomorrow Fund" Fund to fuel energy innovation and opportunity in competitive marketplace
- Epcor Utilities Purchases Union Energy from Westcoast Energy-Epcor Customer Base Now 1.6 Million Across Canada
- Florida Energy Commission Studies Possibilities for Electricity Generation
- FTC: Consumer Benefits Of Retail Power Competition Lagging
- GOP Demands Action on Energy Bill
- Hydro-Quebec to build natural gas power plant
- ISO New England OKs Plan To Expand Transmission System
- Long Island, N.Y. plans 10 new power plants
- Massachusetts Officials Award $850,000 To Renewable Energy Program Applicants
- Mexico, Canada Discuss Energy Needs
- Midwest ISO OKs MAPP Merger; Moves Forward With SPP Deal
- Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro announces lower rate increases for customers
- NJ PSC OKs Plan For Consumers To Generate Their Own Power
- North Carolina Panel Puts Electricity Reform on Hold
- Nypa Chairman Seymour Urges 3-Part Power-Supply Strategy
- Oklahoma Oil, Gas Producers Say Energy Policy Need Is Urgent
- Ontario Electricity Market Inches Closer To Deregulation
- San Francisco Vote Could Dump Electric Utility, Put Power in Public's Hands
- Saskatchewan Government: Ensuring Stable Energy Costs
- South Crofty Holdings Ltd.: Major Development in Establishing Canada's First Geothermal Energy Company
- Southwest U.S. firms create new transmission group
- US FERC tackles utilities' RTO plans at Wed meeting
- US NRC approves Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site
- US Supreme Court Hears Case With High Import For Power Markets
- Western Canada's Tallest Wind Turbine Officially Opened
- Xcel Energy's SPS Unit Starts 345KV Texas-To-Kansas Line
- Alberta Cutting $1 Billion from This Year's Budget as Energy Prices Slump
- Duke Energy to Buy Westcoast Energy in Deal Worth $8.5 Billion US
- FERC: Extraordinary Expenditures Necessary to Safeguard National Energy Supplies
- Law Judge Rules Against Energy Refunds in Northwest
- Major International Player Enters the Texas Retail Electric Market; Centrica Sees Texas As An Exceptional Opportunity to Serve Retail Customers
- Manitoba Hydro To Build 230-Kv Line To North Dakota
- Massachusetts Electric Seeks Approval to Cut Price of Default Service
- More Utilities Eyeing Remote Meter Reading Technologies To Help With Load Management Programs, Chartwell Survey Finds
- NYC Power Prices Fall Due To Continued Pwr Outages
- Pepco Restoring Power in Wake of Tornado; Utility Poles, Wires Down; Dry Ice Distribution Planned
- Power Plant Debate Pits Clean Air, Cheap Electricity
- Subsidiary of Enmax Power Corporation Wins Contract to Build Transmission Substation
- U.S. Power Trading Ceases After Attacks
- US Senate GOP Want To Drop Elec Restructuring Until 2002
- USA's Power Grid Gets the Juice It Needed
- Westcoast Energy Announces Completion Of Power Asset Sale
- Wild Antarctic Winds to be Harnessed for Power
- Award-Winning Klamath Cogeneration Plant Officially Generating
- California Faces Costly Power Glut
- Epcor To Face Expansion Critics At EUB Hearing Near Genesee
- Neptune to Launch Open Season Bidding for Privately-Owned Transmission Service in U.S.
- Ontario Power Agencies Confirm 2002 Power Market Opening
- PanCanadian Produces Electricity From Its First Alberta Power Plant
- Power Brokers Say New Ontario Power Market Date Not Firm Enough
- SunBridge Project Connects First Renewable Energy To SaskPower Grid
- Survey Shows Online Power Trading Growing
- The City of Calgary Engages Investment Banks to Pursue Enmax Divestiture Options
- TransAlta sells Fort Nelson power plant to BC Hydro
- White House Spokesman Says Chretien Never Raised Energy with U.S President
- Arem Says Sweet Bailout Deal for Edison Eliminates Competitors, Rebuilds Monopoly And Keeps Consumers HostageEnergy Service Providers Vehemently Oppose Abx2 82
- Canada Adopts U.S. Energy Star Program To Promote Energy Efficiency
- Canadian Hydro's CG&E To Build 25 MW Power Plant
- Centra Gas Seeks A 15.9% Rate Decrease For August 1, 2001
- City of Port Colborne And Canadian Niagara Power Complete Lease Agreement for Port Colborne Hydro
- Congress Struggles Over Energy Plan
- Emera Inc. And Canadian Imperial Venture Corp. to Pursue Joint Opportunities
- Epcor Joins Rising Tide Of Electricity Exporters
- FERC Taps Former State Regulators For Power Grid Mediation
- Greenvolt Power Readies a 200kw Fuel Cell Power Plant for Delivery in July 2001
- International Energy Leaders Meeting in Newfoundland
- Less Than Half of U.S. Power Plants in Development Likely to Be Built, Analyst Says
- NEMA Applauds FERC Order To Regionalize National Electric Grid
- Newfoundland Power Disappointed with Pub Ruling on Pole Deal
- Ontario Energy Board Approves The Sale of Brampton Hydro
- Ontario's Electricity Supply Secure For The Next Decade
- Poll: Calif. Power Crisis Recriminations
- Power Bills A Shock To Small Alberta Firms
- Recent Alberta Rate Break Might Not Last
- The Electricity Forum Joins Energy Jobs Network
- Transalta And Midamerican Form Strategic Alliance
- U.S. Bank Makes Bid For Alberta Power
- U.S. Congress Urged To Enact Measures To Ensure Viable Retail Energy Markets
- Unstable Alberta Electricity Market Forces Sale of Enmax
- Vermont Utilities, Hydro-Quebec Reach Settlement on Ice Storm Case
- Atco Ltd - Cory Cogeneration Station Construction Officially Underway
- Composite Material May Aid Energy Woes
- Transalta Buys Interest In Mercury Electric
- Transalta Completes Purchase of Mega
- $2.5B Shell Scotford Project Hits Stride
- Analysts warn of power-rate shock --Summer prices will be 'nutsy high'
- BC Hydro Calls For Green Proposals
- BPA to Announce 'Painful' Conservation
- Bush Called On To Allow U.S.Navy Ships to Help Ease California's Power Crisis
- Calif Reaches Power Line Deal with SCE
- California ISO Not Worried About PG&E
- California Tries Again to Curb Power Prices
- California's $4bn Energy Boost
- Canadian Hydro Developers Furthers B.C. Pingston Project
- Electric CO-Ops Warn of Potential Boom-And-Bust Cycle
- Feinstein Presses Forward for Energy Price Caps
- Hydro-Quebec Ordered To Refund Vermont $20 Million (U.S.)
- Independent Producers To Develop Low-cost Electricity
- Limited Price Controls Allowed For California Suppliers
- Ontario Political Opposition Grows To Power Deregulation
- Report: Pacific NW Power Prices Top California
- The Power Hungry Get Powered Down
- The Power Hungry Get Powered Down
- Transalta Announces First Investment in Distributed Generation
- Transalta Begins Construction on $210-Million US Power Plant in Pacific Northwest
- Weyerhaeuser Finds Solution To Electricity Crunch
- Allegheny Energy Supply Agrees to Provide Long-Term Power to California Energy Market
- Cal-ISO Says Suppliers Overcharged
- Califorina Governor: Energy Deal May Take A Month
- California Utility Must Reveal Blackouts
- Canadian Government Invests in Fuel-Cell Technology
- Hydro-Quebec Partners with Snc-Lavalin in Australia Project
- Ontario Electric Power Deregulation Would Be Good for Market, Quebec
- Ontario launches Tough Actions To Improce Air Quality
- Ontario Power Generation Launches Energy Technologies Venture Company
- Ontario Premier To Impose Speedy Deregulation Of Electricity
- Pro Deregulation States Consider California Disaster
- Ruling Opens Door to California Rate Hikes
- State Again Faces Critical Energy Shortfall; Cal-ISO, SCE Urge Curtailment, Conservation
- Alberta Chamber Blames Deregulation For High Costs
- California to Float Power Grid Purchase
- California's Power Crisis: A Warning For Corporate America
- Enbridge, Ontario Power Generation And Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Help Launch Major Environmental Initiative in Toronto, Peterborough And Mississauga
- Epcor Buys Insurance PolicySecures Protection From "Open Market" Prices
- New York Could Experience California-Type Energy Shortages Industry Expert Says Similar Policies Could Leave the State Short on Electricity
- Ontario Power Generation Posts Strong Results for 2000
- Think Tanks Tackle California Energy Crisis
- Transalta Acquires Power Plant in New York State
- Transalta Announces Intention to Purchase Shares
- TransAlta Announces Major Expansion
- Transalta to Sell Power Plant to Syncrude
- U.S. Feds to Expedite Calif Power Plants