Energy User News articles from January 2001

Energy User News archives from January 2001

EPICenter Building is Green Focal Point in Montana.(Montana State University)
January 1, 2001... Bozeman campus provides mark for other facilities The EPICenter Building on the Montana State University (MSU) campus in Bozeman is being designed to set a new standard for workplace excellence and environmental sensitivity. The...

Semiconductor Wafer Fab Plant Gets Premium Utility Power.
January 1, 2001... World's largest outdoor UPS Concern over the impact of utility power disturbances is probably the greatest in the semiconductor wafer fabrication industry. Producing complex computer chips is an extremely delicate process that blends...

Electricity Prices Down Six Years; Sales in Restructured Markets Triple.(in US markets)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... WASHINGTON, DC--The average price of electricity in the United States decreased in 1999 for the sixth consecutive year, to the lowest rates since 1990. The total decline in rates since 1994 is 3.6%, according to the Energy Information...

ACEEE Profiles Energy-Saving Industrial Technolgies.(Emerging Energy-Efficient Industrial Technologies report)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Washington, DC--A new report issued by the ACEEE, entitled Emerging Energy-Efficient Industrial Technologies, argues that technology will be essential in helping industry move toward a cleaner, more sustainable path of production and...

Powerline Technology Tested.
January 1, 2001... NEW YORK--Ambient Corporation and Consolidated Edison Company of New York Inc. began alpha phase testing of Ambient's proprietary Powerline Telecommunications technology (PLT). Ambient says that the alpha test is a key initial step towards...

Commonwealth Edison Abandons Midwest ISO.(Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator organization)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) announced that it will leave the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (ISO) and join the rival Alliance Regional Transmission Organization (RTO). The move follows a similar decision by Illinois Power,...

Oversight Addressed.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Due to an error on the part of the editors, EUN failed to properly identify the round table participants features in October's EUN Energy Dialogue (p. 10). EUN would like to thank the callers who brought this to our attention. The round table...

Circadian and E-MON Sign Strategic Agreement.
January 1, 2001... BOSTON--Circadian Information Systems, an energy monitoring and information software pioneer, announced a strategic engineering, marketing and sales agreement with E-MON Corporation. The agreement, which was announced on October 5th, provides...

Con Ed-NU Merger Gets Mixed Reviews.(Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal opposes Consolidated Edison - Northeast Utilities merger)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Attorney General Richard Blumenthal moved to block the planned merger of Consolidated Edison and Connecticut-based Northeast Utilities merger by filling an appeal to the Superior Court of New Britain. Previously, the New York Public Service...

Power Quality and Harmonics.
January 1, 2001... Everyday concerns that affect building operations More electronic equipment in the workplace raises the likelihood of potential interactions with the electric distribution system and requires a more sophisticated approach to preventing...

DEGREE DAYS For Selected Cities November.(Climate Prediction Center report)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... DEGREE DAYS For Selected Cities November Monthly Monthly Deviation Monthly Deviation City Total from Norm from Last Year Atlanta 433 66 ...

Spot Market Gas: Posted Prices.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Spot Market Gas: Posted Prices December prices represent estimates of median prices for one-month spot transactions. Prices are not offers. Source: Dynergy Inc. Pipeline Dec-99...

Ranking of Gas Utility Prices By State Industrial.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Ranking of Gas Utility Prices By State Industrial Rank State Price/Mcf 1 Hawaii $10.21 2 Delaware $7.18 3 Maryland $6.84 4 Illinois $6.65 ...

Ranking of Electricity Prices Industrial.
January 1, 2001... Ranking of Electricity Prices Industrial Rank Cts/kWh ST UTILITY %Total kWh 1 16.86 HI Hawaii Electric Light Co. Inc. 0.04% 2 15.93 AK Kodiak Electric Assn, Inc 0.01%...

Deregulation Comes Under Sharp Attack from Angry Ratepayers.(in California)
January 1, 2001... California's power crisis, far from dissipating with the last summer's heat, remains firmly in the state and national spotlight. Frequent warnings of power shortages continued into the winter months, and a possible shortfall of natural gas...

CTN 2001 Schedule Includes Energy Topics.
January 1, 2001... CTN, the Energy Network, announced its schedule of monthly broadcast courses for 2001. The schedule includes a number of sessions of interest to energy professionals, including the May 10th session, "How Wall Street Impacts Energy" and the...

Electric Generating Capacity 'Adequate' for Now, NERC Says.(North American Electric Reliability Council)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Near-term electric generating capacity adequacy is expected to be satisfactory in North America, says Michehl R. Gent, president of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC). According to NERC's Reliability Assessment...

CP&L Energy.(acquires Florida Progress Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... CP&L Energy, based in Raleigh, NC, has completed the purchase of Florida Progress Corp. for $5.3 billion in a deal that created the nation's 10th-largest utility. Florida Progress is the parent company Florida Power, the state's...

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, in an effort to improve the reliability of the state's electric system, has adopted utility standards designed to reduce outage frequency and duration. To help identify trouble spots, the board wants...

First Choice Power Inc.
January 1, 2001... First Choice Power Inc. has filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas to become registered as a retail energy provider. The Texas electric market opens to competition on a partial basis in June 2001 and on a statewide basis in 2002....

The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA).(Calpine Corp. contract)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), in consultation with the Department of Energy (DOE), has signed an agreement with Calpine Corp., San Jose, CA, to buy up to 49.9 MW of electricity from the Fourmile Hill geothermal project in...

Dominion.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Dominion, headquartered in Richmond, VA, announced that it has acquired a natural gas-fired power generation site being developed in a Pennsylvania industrial park. When complete, the Fairless Works Energy Center will include a combined-cycle...

Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America (NGPL).
January 1, 2001... Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America (NGPL) says it plans to run a natural gas pipeline from Centralia, IL, into the eastern part of metropolitan St. Louis, MO. NGPL, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Inc., says it has signed supply and storage...

EUNLOAD PROFILE.(Illustration)
January 1, 2001... EUNLOAD PROFILE Natural Gas Industry at a Glance Participants Miles of Pipe Producers 8,000 Independents 0...

Blame It on Christmas, Pot Farms, and the Internet.
January 1, 2001... The news will be anything but dull in the coming months Recent news on the energy and environmental fronts lately has taken some strange and paradoxical turns. If this is any indication of things to come--and we suspect it is--the coming...

LETTERS.
January 1, 2001... Food for Thought Are our energy standards useful? Since initiating this column, I have been pleased by the response from readers. Last month, I received many interesting notes on a wide variety of topics. Readers have been taking the...

Finally, The New Millennium.
January 1, 2001... Remember the Y2K problem? Last year at this time, America was breathing a collective sigh of relife. Purists may have argued that we wouldn't begin the new millennium for another year, but computer programmers managed to dramatize the...

Congress Plans for New Term.
January 1, 2001... Rep. Joe Barton talks to EUN readers about energy issues In the days after the 2000 election, most Americans and almost all of government seemed mesmerized by events in Florida. The entire news media, it seemed, and all three branches of...

The Costs of Power Quality.
January 1, 2001... New economy places emphasis on good power quality At a time when the quantity of power and its cost have become more of a concern than ever for energy users, concerns about quality have made power decisions increasingly difficult. Power...

Placing Value on Carbon.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Carbon trading could bring opportunity to ESCOs As the international community explores cost-effective strategies to address the issue of global climate change, market-based mechanisms have moved to the forefront of the climate...