The General Accounting Office (GAO) has cleared former FERC Chairman Curt Hebert Jr. and Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay of any criminal charges and ethics violations stemming from a telephone conversation between the two men last February during which Hebert claimed Lay sought a change in his position on a key Commission policy issue in exchange for agreeing to endorse Hebert to continue on as chairman.
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Exec. Says Deregulation Spawning Interest In Public Power
As the price and availability of electricity looms ever larger as a topic of national debate, public power is getting a closer look from industrial and commercial power users and that growing interest in public power is occurring not just in places where you would expect it, like California, but across all regions of the country. So says Carmine Grastataro, senior vice president at RKS Research & Consulting, who sat down with NGI for a brief interview after appearing before a panel at NGI’s GasMart/Power 2001 conference in Tampa, FL, last Thursday.
Exec. Says Deregulation Spawning Interest In Public Power
As the price and availability of electricity looms ever larger as a topic of national debate, public power is getting a closer look from industrial and commercial power users and that growing interest in public power is occurring not just in places where you would expect it, like California, but across all regions of the country. So says Carmine Grastataro, senior vice president at RKS Research & Consulting, who sat down with NGI for a brief interview after appearing before a panel at NGI’s GasMart/Power 2001 conference in Tampa, FL, yesterday.
Exelon Exec Sees More Power from Nuke Plants
The amount of electric power generated from existing nuclear plants is likely to increase in the coming years as a result of higher capacity factors and plant uprates, according to Corbin McNeill Jr., co-CEO of Exelon Corp. But the executive also believes that there are a whole host of antiquated legislative and regulatory requirements currently facing the nuclear power industry that need to be overhauled, given the likelihood that future nuclear plants will be operating in a deregulated environment.
BP Exec Calls LNG ‘Fundamental’ To U.S. Market
BP North America Gas & Power President Tony Fountain said last week that the role of liquefied natural gas was “fundamental to our North American markets,” and indicated that the company is reviewing “several opportunities for LNG terminals” along the West Coast and East Coast. BP joins El Paso, Chevron and other companies that have announced similar LNG plans in response to high domestic gas prices.
BP Exec Calls LNG Fundamental To U.S. Market
BP North America Gas & Power President Tony Fountain said this week that the role of liquefied natural gas was “fundamental to our North American markets,” and indicated that the company is reviewing “several opportunities for LNG terminals” along the West Coast and East Coast. BP joins El Paso, Chevron and othercompanies that have announced similar LNG plans in response to high domestic gas prices.
Energy Industry Facing Mega Changes, Says Exec
The coming decade promises to reveal a different utilityindustry than the one today, which already is bursting around theedges from the speed-of-light changes, according to Victor A. Burk,a managing partner in Arthur Andersen’s energy and utilitiesindustry sector. Burk offered what he termed his “megatrends” athis company’s energy symposium last week in Houston.
Energy Industry Facing Mega Changes, Says Exec
The coming decade promises to reveal a different utilityindustry than the one today, which already is bursting around theedges from the speed-of-light changes, according to Victor A. Burk,a managing partner in Arthur Andersen’s energy and utilitiesindustry sector. Burk offered what he termed his “megatrends” athis company’s energy symposium this week in Houston.
OPS Steps Up Inspection of Gas Pipes, Duke Exec Says
Although a proposed rulemaking process to beef up safety inspections of natural gas pipelines isn’t expected to get under way until early 2001, a Duke Energy executive says the Department of Transportation’s Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) already has taken it upon itself to step up its oversight of interstate gas lines.
TECO Exec Blueprints Florida Electric Competition
Florida is on its way toward a competitive power market, andTampa-based TECO Energy has some suggestions for a successfultransition.