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- New Calls For Re-Regulation - EF News
As a result, Pacific Gas Electric Company filed for bankruptcy while Southern California Edison teetered on the brink for several months Consumers were forced to pay higher and higher rates while the state budget surplus was wiped out while the Department of Water Resources then took over the burden of purchasing electricity
- Calif. Regulators Reject Key Electric Rate Plan - EF News
Investors will lose confidence in the state, he added The water agency stepped in earlier this year to buy power on behalf of the state's financially troubled utilities -- PG E Corp 's Pacific Gas Electric unit and Edison International's Southern California Edison
- Electricity Forum News - World’s Longest HVDC Transmission Link Approved
SACRAMENTO - Efforts are being made across California's political landscape to derail a legislative initiative that introduced income-based utility charges for customers of Southern California Edison and other major utilities
- Eastern Senators Criticize Emissions From Midwest Power Plants
Dale Heydlauff, senior vice president of environmental affairs at American Electric Power, testified on behalf of the Edison Electric Institute, claiming that electric utility industry has succeeded in reaching emissions goals set by Congress under the Clean Air Act
- Winds too fickle at Boston City Hall - EF News
Three months after Mayor Thomas M Menino first floated the idea of installing a windmill somewhere on the bricked-over swale abutting the city's seat of government, engineers have concluded there are too many unpredictable and dangerous gusts and downdrafts as wind bounces off the nearby buildings
- 43-year ComEd worker made pals of his adversaries - EF News
The son of a Chicago streetcar motorman, Mr Cullen graduated from Tilden Tech in 1930 and earned an electrical engineering degree from Armour Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1935 and got a job with Commonwealth Edison He met his late wife, then Margaret Kehoe, at a South Side dance hall
- PSC chairman offers to brief lawmakers on electricity bidding process
Schisler made the offer to Senate President Thomas V Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael E Busch in response to questions they sent recently to officials at BGE and its corporate parent, Constellation Energy Group Schisler said he wanted to assure them that the bidding process that resulted in the higher rates was fair and designed to produce the lowest possible prices for consumers
- Accountants Face Grilling in Enron Trial - Electricity Forum News
Prosecutors said they expect to call former Andersen accountants Thomas Bauer and John R Sult to the witness stand Bauer oversaw books for Enron North America, the energy company's profitable trading arm Sult oversaw accounting related to Wessex Water Ltd , a British water utility that was the cornerstone of Azurix, Enron's failed multibillion-dollar water business
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