Electric Light & Power articles from June 2001

Electric Light & Power archives from June 2001

Nuclear reigns as hot commodity.(nuclear power expected to increase)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... Nuclear energy is back in fashion. What was once the industry equivalent of bell-bottoms has circled back onto the runway, and absolutely everyone is checking her out. The numbers are hot. Where just a few years ago, a buyer might pay...

Generation sales in 2000 top previous records.(electricity-generation sales)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... Calpine, NRG, Reliant, Pinnacle West, Entergy and other buyers made 2000 a record year for sales of generation in the United States. The restructuring of ownership of U.S. generating facilities continues to be a focus of activity for many...

Taking off the gloves in the Golden State.(proposals for dealing with the energy crisis)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... As I'm writing this, Dennis Tito returned to Earth, proclaiming, "It was paradise. just came back from paradise." He's the multimillionaire who blasted off from the Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to tag along with two cosmonauts delivering an...

Gov. Davis inks deals.(CA governor Gray Davis)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Gov. Gray Davis has signed a 10-year, $7 billion agreement with a subsidiary of Sempra Energy for up to 1,900 MW of electricity for California. He has also reached agreement with Southern California Edison for the purchase of the company's...

TNP to sell facility.(Texas-New Mexico Power Co. generating facility)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Texas-New Mexico Power Co. (TNP) is selling its generating facility, TNP One, in accordance with the requirements of the Texas Electric Choice Act (Senate Bill 7). Located in Robertson County, Texas, TNP One is a two-unit, 300 MW plant that...

Fla. okays plant.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Florida's Public Service Commission has given preliminary approval for the construction of a 633 MW, natural gas-fired plant near Orlando. The project is a collaboration between four utilities: Orlando Utilities Commission, Kissimmee Utility...

MISO gets money.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator Inc. (MISO) will receive a $1 million business development loan, part of the economic development package that the state offered MISO in November 1999 to locate in central Indiana.

Coal options offered.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. (BNSF) are offering coal transportation option contracts. The initial contracts (auctioned online in late May) give purchasers the right to move a trainload of coal via BNSF from one of three...

Johnstown America delivers.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Johnstown America Corp. has delivered a 300-unit aluminum flat-bottom coal gondola order to Drummond Corp. Each coal car has a 2,080 cubic foot capacity and will be used in Drummond's Columbian Loloma mines.

Siemens wins contract.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... PPL Susquehanna LLC, a subsidiary of PPL Corp., awarded Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp. a contract to design, manufacture and install turbine upgrades at two 1,130 MW nuclear units in Berwick, Penn. The first of the upgrades will be made on...

FPL to build Texas plant.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... FPL Energy LLC, a subsidiary of FPL Group, will build, own and operate a 1,789 MW natural gas-fired power plant in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Construction is targeted to begin this month with commercial operation in the second quarter of 2003....

Con Ed to upgrade.(Consolidated Edison Co. of New York to spend $2.4 billion in five year upgrade)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Consolidated Edison Co. of New York Inc. (Con Ed) will spend $2.4 billion over the next five years to upgrade its power T&D system in New York City and Westchester County.

EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Excelergy: Richard Dwyer has been appointed vice president. Foster Wheeler Corp.: Richard J. Swift, chairman, president and CEO, will retire by the end of 2001. DTE Energy Co.: Daniel G. Brudzynski has been elected vice president and...

Congressional rhetoric over Bush plan heats up.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The energy plan President George W. Bush disclosed offers 105 recommendations on a wide range of energy issues from wellhead to burner tip. Of those initiatives, 73 are directives to federal agencies. An executive order called on all...

Texas delays electricity choice program.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Texas' retail electricity pilot was delayed for a month the same day the North American Electricity Reliability Council (NERC) put the state under a "watch" while it makes the transition to a competitive market. The Electric Reliability...

Market flaws challenge energy policies.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The political consensus for restructuring the energy sector was premised on the widely accepted view that markets allocate resources more efficiently than do governments. In the last decade, structural changes in the U.S. energy sector have...

Monitoring morphs into customer service quid pro quo.(power quality monitoring)
June 1, 2001... As it has with so many other aspects of the utility industry, deregulation has changed the fundamental premise of monitoring and managing power quality. Traditionally, power quality monitoring was conducted on a case-by-case basis at customer...

Utilities must enter real-time risk on the books.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Energy firms are the next "big thing" in risk, according to a recent report from Meridien Research. "The energy risk market is still a relatively young market," said Damon Kovelsky, Meridien Research analyst and author of the report....

ECOM-ENERGY uses eBidenergy.com.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... eBidenergy.com, an application service provider (ASP) of online energy services signed an agreement with ECOM-ENERGY Inc., an independent provider of advisory services and procurement solutions that assists healthcare providers in making their...

Dynegy Goes Live with ORIEN.(OpenLink software)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... OpenLink (www.olf.com), provider of energy and financial trading and risk management software solutions, announced that Dynegy Inc. has licensed OpenLink's new ORIEN technology. Through ORIEN, Dynegy has implemented a seamless link between its...

Energy Services Group gets new client.(AllEnergy Gas and Electric Marketing Co.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Energy Services Group (ESG), a source of managed data processing services for competitive energy markets, entered into agreement with AllEnergy Gas and Electric Marketing Co. to support their gas and electric marketing efforts for commercial...

ICE crosses $1-billion mark.(IntercontinentalExchange)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), an electronic marketplace for OTC energy and metals products, crossed the $100 billion combined notional value mark, representing over 100,000 trades, only eight months since ICE went live in August 2000. More...

Reliant selects TIBCO.(Reliant Energy Services uses TIBCO Software product)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Reliant Energy Services, will use TIBCO Software Inc.'s real-time e-business infrastructure software to automate settlement and straight-through processing of online energy sales and purchases, and to give its employees online real-time access...

TradeSpark posts 1Q2001 volumes.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... TradeSpark, a comprehensive energy trading marketplace, announced a 56 percent increase of its trading volume first quarter 2001 over fourth quarter 2000. The electronic marketplace powered by eSpeed trading technology traded more than $18...

Planalytics upgrades tools.(Weathemomics Gas Buyer)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Planalytics Inc. released a new version of Weathemomics Gas Buyer, a Web-delivered financial risk management tool for purchasing and hedging natural gas. New features and capabilities include a transaction history page, a mark-to-market tool to...

UniGridEnergy adds Demand Exchange.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... UniGridEnergy plans to add Demand Exchange to its array of services. Demand Exchange allows energy buyers to take advantage of high market prices by reducing their demand and receiving payments for the reductions. Utilities benefit by using...

FEA and FAME form alliance.(Financial Engineering Associates, FAME Information Services)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Financial Engineering Associates Inc. (FEA) is forming an alliance with FAME Information Services Inc. to deliver a comprehensive analytical solution that combines quantitative risk analytics with quality market data for the global energy,...

Retx allies with Pentech.(Retx Inc., Pentech Solutions Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Retx Inc. and Pentech Solutions Inc. will promote each other's products to give their customers a full market solution to automatically reduce energy consumption and benefit from energy price volatility. Retx offers a suite of back-office...

Altra sets e-trading records.(Altra Energy Technologies)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Altra Energy Technologies Inc. announced record-breaking figures on eLiquids, its natural gas liquid (NGL) and crude oil trading platform and eGas, its natural gas exchange platform. Altra, together with its subsidiaries, provides innovative...

AM/FM/GIS puts assets on the map.(geographic information systems)
June 1, 2001... "If you still think of GIS as a niche project, you're behind the times. If you have no plan--get it together--it's a reality now." Roxanne Cox-Drake, from ESRI's electric and gas utility marketing, compared modern GIS to an Internet...

NRG Huntley awards Invensys.(NRG Huntley Operations contract)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Invensys Performance Solutions has signed a contract with NRG Huntley Operations Inc. to upgrade the power station's existing control system and implement advanced process control at NRG's Huntley Station Units 67 and 68, in Tonawanda, N.Y....

Southern Co. chooses Itron.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Southern Co. signed with Itron's Energy Information Systems (EIS) business unit out of Raleigh, N.C to implement Southern Co.'s next generation meter data collection and management system. The system is expected to support a potential of up to...

Pantellos selects webMethods.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Pantellos selected webMethods as its strategic business partner and preferred integration platform. With webMethods, Pantellos members will have an integration framework to directly connect their front and back office applications, such as...

JEA deploys iM:Work.(iMedeon)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... iMedeon, provider of wireless Web applications for mobile workforce management, has deployed iM:Work, its mobile workforce management application suite, for JEA, one of the largest municipal utilities in the nation, located in the Jacksonville,...

TVA invests in first energy storage plant on U.S. soil.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Partnering with the British energy company Innogy (formerly National Power), the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is poised to construct a $25 million commercial electricity storage plant in Mississippi. The TVA board has approved...

Entergy chooses D-SMES.(American Superconductor Corp. and GE Industrial Systems )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... American Superconductor Corp. and GE Industrial Systems announced a follow-on order from Entergy Corp. for two distributed superconducting magnetic energy storage (D-SMES) units to assure power reliability in the Houston, Texas area in the...

TransAlta installs Praxis SW.(Praxis Engineers Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... TransAlta installed Praxis Engineers Inc.'s next-generation coal-blending technology at its 1340-MW facility in central Washington. TransAlta Centralia Generation LLC, which operates two coal-fired generators, is expected to save $2 million...

LineSoft expands at AEP.(American Electric Power )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... American Electric Power (AEP) will implement LineSoft's LD-Pro, LD-Field, and LD-Structure-Calc software applications throughout its transmission organization. In addition, LineSoft will provide consulting services to AEP's Transmission...

OPG joins ADA-ES team.(Ontario Power Generation )(International Pages)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Ontario Power Generation (OPG) joined the ADA-ES mercury control project team and will provide funding covering project costs. In October 2000, ADA-ES, an environmental technology and specialty chemical company began work on a comprehensive...

MGE forms industrial alliance.(MGE UPS SYSTEMS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... MGE UPS SYSTEMS, provider of power protection backing up the Internet, formed a Facility Solutions Alliance (FSA) to support mission-critical networks and facility operations with power, environmental control and monitoring systems. The...

Black & Veatch teams with NeuCo.(NeuCo Inc. )(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Black & Veatch combined forces with NeuCo Inc. to create the industry's first integrated real-time performance monitoring, cost tracking and optimization solution. This business agreement integrates Black & Veatch's IT solutions for the...

SOFC stack fuelled by LPG.(Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited )(International Pages)(Product Development)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as the fuel has been successfully tested by Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (CFCL). A kilowatt-class stack was built and run at the company's Melbourne headquarters and its...

New billing tool expands back-office capabilities.(LODESTAR Corp. )(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Customer choice has brought with it sophisticated new rate structures that vary from state to state, different billing and collections models based on jurisdiction, an enhanced need for customer relationship management and energy settlement...

Energy plan touts smart meters.(Puget Sound Energy)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Unveiling his administration's proposal for a national energy policy, President George W. Bush cited "smart electric meters" as an innovative new conservation tool for boosting America's energy efficiency and lowering consumers power costs. ...

IMServ offers EDO.(Invensys Metering Systems)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... IMServ (Invensys Measurement Services), a subsidiary of Invensys Metering Systems, has a new service, Energy Data On-demand (EDO). With EDO, utilities and energy providers can offer customers low-cost access to on-demand meter data from their...

Soliance signs two contracts.(Centrica plc)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Soliance, a San Diego-based total information solutions provider, signed separate agreements with deregulated energy service providers Energy America and Direct Energy Marketing Ltd. to provide information service that includes enrollment,...

Anaheim selects Derivion.(City of Anaheim Public Utilities)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Derivion signed an agreement with City of Anaheim Public Utilities, a publicly owned utility company, to provide Internet billing services for Anaheim Public Utilities' more than 100,000 customers. Using Derivion inetBiller to manage e-billing...

Peace Software signs Delinea.(Delinea Corp. )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Delinea Corp. has licensed Peace's Energy software as the best-in-class customer management application for its ASP services targeted at mid-sized regulated and deregulated utilities. Peace Software provides advanced customer management...

Montana Power brings customers online.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... With a new Internet access system (IAS) by ORCOM Montana Power Co.'s customers can go online to research individual property energy consumption or view multiple energy accounts with a single login. ORCOM, providing hosted customer information...

VALVE SYSTEMS.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The flow control division has published a new brochure detailing the features and benefits of its quarter-turn control valve systems. Highlighted in the bulletin are Durco and Atomac rotary valves and Automax valve automation products. Among...

RIGID BORESCOPES.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... A full selection of industrial rigid borescopes is now available, including swing prism, rotary scan and mini-rigids--with a wide selection of diameters, lengths, and tip configurations. They feature all-metal body construction and patented...

ON-LINE SERVICE.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Cartica.com is a new provider of maps and map-related products and services with products ranging from consumer mapping items such as atlases, globes, and gifts to products for GIS and business, including GPS hardware and software, digital...

LEAK MONITOR.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... INTEK Inc., developer and manufacturer of RheoVac line flow instruments for liquid and gas flow monitoring, now offers the RheoVac Sentry Monitoring System for real-time, multi-point monitoring of condenser air in-leakage within steam turbine...

MANAGEMENT METHODS.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... TIPS ON SHARPENING YOUR THINKING Regardless of your specific responsibilities, your ability to think-precisely, thoroughly, originally-represents the most valuable contribution you can make to your organization. There are undoubtedly other...