Winners

In a report issued last Wednesday, the National Petroleum Council (NPC) did not pick any winners or losers for future alternative fuel vehicle technologies. It concluded that there was a “great deal of uncertainty” as to which individual fuel-vehicle system would overcome technology hurdles to be economically and environmentally attractive in the years ahead.

In a report issued Wednesday, the National Petroleum Council (NPC) did not pick any winners or losers for future alternative fuel vehicle technologies. Rather, it said there is a “great deal of uncertainty” as to which individual fuel-vehicle system would overcome technology hurdles to be economically and environmentally attractive by 2050.

A leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist firm that cut its teeth on early investments in such winners as Sun Microsystems, Netscape and Google told California news media Monday it plans to invest $100 million of a new $600 million investment pool in green energy technologies. Menlo Park, CA-based Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers is looking to invest in technologies that provide cleaner energy, transportation, air and water.

El Paso Corp. and Duke Energy will be the “clear, immediate winners” as energy traders scramble for their survival on Wall Street, but embattled Williams and Dynegy will be a “jumpball because of the liquidity trap they have gotten themselves into,” says energy industry analyst John Olson of Houston-based Sanders Morris Harris.

El Paso Corp. and Duke Energy will be the “clear, immediate winners” as energy traders scramble for their survival on Wall Street, but embattled Williams and Dynegy will be a “jumpball because of the liquidity trap they have gotten themselves into,” says energy industry analyst John Olson of Houston-based Sanders Morris Harris.

The recent Oscar winners have nothing on San Francisco’svenerable Gran Dame of combination energy utilities, Pacific Gasand Electric Co., whose film career and notoriety seem destined towin increasing Hollywood scrutiny if not gold statuettes.

Sunday’s Oscar winners have nothing on San Francisco’s venerableGran Dame of combination energy utilities, Pacific Gas and ElectricCo., whose film career and notoriety seem destined to winincreasing Hollywood scrutiny if not gold statuettes.