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For the current issue of ENERGY JOBS WEEKLY, download at: http://www.pmaconference.com/040101EnergyJobs.pdf ?TOP STORIES CALIFORNIA OFFICIAL SPARS WITH U.S. ON POWER POLICY As California and other Western states grid for a summer of energy shortages and rising electricity costs, the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said that the Bush administration would do everything possible to ease the problem, except give California what it wants the most - price caps on wholesale fuel costs, The New York Times reported Tuesday. CALIFORNIA'S POWER STRUGGLE DRAGS ON AMID HIGH PRICES, SHORTAGE OF ELECTRICITY The way they lambasted each other for PG&E's plunge into bankruptcy Friday, Gov. Gray Davis and the utility's top executives sounded like innocent passengers on the Titanic, seemingly powerless to prevent it from sinking. FPL GROUP PLANS NEW NATURAL GAS-FIRED ALABAMA PLANT FPL Group Inc.'s FPL Energy LLC unit plans to build, own and operate a 624-megawatt, natural gas-fired power plant in Calhoun County in northeastern Alabama. E. ON, POWERGEN DEAL WILL CREATE SECOND-LARGEST UTILITY E.ON AG unveiled plans to take over Powergen PLC for 8.2 billion euros in cash and assume 7.1 billion euros in debt, a deal that would create the world's second-largest electricity-service provider and strike one of the boldest moves yet to consolidate Europe's newly deregulated power industry. AS DEMAND GROWS, INSUFFICIENT ELECTRIC LINES COULD CHOKE OFF POWER IN MIDWEST Energy insiders are talking a lot among themselves this spring about the coming power squeeze caused by overloaded electric transmission lines. TRANSALTA BEGINS CONSTRUCTION ON $210-MILLION US POWER PLANT IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST TransAlta broke ground today on the site of its $210-million US ($310-million Cdn) 248-megawatt (MW), natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant near Centralia, Washington. Washington Gov. Gary Locke joined Murray Nelson, TransAlta's executive vice-president Generation, at the plant site to dig the first spade into the ground for the Big Hanaford Project. Dow Jones News, Preferred by the Pros ? DOW JONES NEWSWIRES- Access stories online at: http://199.97.97.79/IMDS|PMADJN0,PMADJN1,PMADJN2,PMADJN3,PMADJN4|index NRG Energy Sr Unsec Confirmed At Baa3 By Moody's <NRG PRESS RELEASE: Moody's Confirms NRG Energy Rtgs <NRG PRESS RELEASE: Fincl Insurers Stable After PG&E: Moody's Fincl Guarantors Outlook Unch After PG&E Filing:Moody's CNMV: 59% Of Cantabrico Hldrs Give Tentative Takeover OK CNMV/Cantabrico -2: Market Watchers Had Expected Split NY Judge Seen Halting Queens Power Turbines Tuesday PRESS RELEASE: Dynegy Credit Quality Remains Stable - S&P Dynegy Credit Quality Remains Stable - S&P REPEAT&CORRECT: Mirant CEO: PG&E May Set Power Precedent FPL Grp/Plant -2: To Sell Electricity To Southern Co. Unit FPL Group Plans New Natural Gas-Fired Alabama Plant <FPL BRAZIL PRESS: NRG Seeks To Form Group To Buy Cesp Control FPL Group Inc. Puts 1Q Net At Meeting Expectations FPL Group Inc. Puts 1Q Net At 76c/Shr Before Expenses FPL Group Puts 1Q Merger Termination Expenses at $30M Mirant CEO: PG&E May Set Power Precedent FPL Group Estimate -2: Had Planned To Merge with Entergy FPL Group Estimate -3: Yr-Ago 1Q Net 71c/Share <FPL INTERVIEW: Mirant CEO -3: Asia Remains Profitable CORRECTION: Mirant Wants Block Bewag Sale To HEW INTERVIEW: Mirant CEO -2: Hopes To Resolve Bewag Row INTERVIEW: Mirant CEO Says PG&E May Set Power Precedent WSJE: E.ON, Powergen Deal Will Create Second-Largest Utility Calif Official Spars With U.S. On Power Policy - NYT FREE TRIAL: For a free trial of the various Dow Jones index and data services, go to www.dowjonesnews.com, and click "create account," or call 1-800-223-2274. ?NATIONAL - Access stories online at: http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-nat.htm Transalta Begins Construction on $210-Million US Power Plant in Pacific Northwest Energy Problems Could Force Industrial Exodus, Canacintra Says Environmental Power Corporation Settles Sunnyside Litigation Calif Reaches Power Line Deal with SCE Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 5:21 PM Exxel Group May Purchase Energy Distributor Energy Threats May Impact Rivers Caterpillar Conquers Power Terrain Energy Chiefs Chase Bargains Western Power Sources Strained to Limits Midwest Generation Joins Electric Power Generation Association Alliant Energy Integrated Services - Cogenex Begins $6 Million in Energy Upgrades at Patuxent River Naval Air Station Pseg Power Suspends Plans for Power Plant in White River Indiana General Electric Is Not under Threat from Pg & E's Collapse, Analysts Say States Want Power Prices Policed Con Edison Enrolls 100,000 Customers in Electric Retail Choice Program Survey: US March Producer Prices +0.1% Amid Energy Price Drop Talisman Energy Inc: Petromet Resources Ltd - Talisman to Acquire Petromet Resources for $731 Million in Cash Economic Development Power Allocation Board to Meet Us, Canada Aluminum Producer Shares Surge on Bpa Power Comments Repeats: Energy Volume And Open Interest Totals-APR 10 SCE&G Proposes Electric Generation Facility in Jasper County, SC Oneoffshore Announces Formation of Ods-Petrodata Group; New Brand Poised to Become Largest Single Source for Offshore Energy Information Spitzer Suggests Discounted Rates For Power Plant Neighbors States Want Reasonable Power Prices Westcoast Energy Inc - Correction: Goes Live with Compugen Emerge Duke/Fluor Daniel Selected by Raytheon to Complete Construction of Two Power Plants in Massachusetts Eurogas Inc - Beaver River Gas Well A5 Producing 18 Million Cubic Feet of Natural - Gas Per Day; Additional Re-Entry Well Planned for Summer 2001 Xchange 21 Merges with Netacross to Form Intiqua International; Merger Creates Global E-Consulting Power, Fueling U.S. Expansion Strategy Transalta Power, L.P. Announces Intention to Continue Purchasing Units Delaney Energy Services Corp - Value Maximization Process Progressing And Shareholder Rights - Plan Separation Time Deferred Pud Can Help Cut Power Bill and Ease the Energy Crisis ENI confident energy regulator to set profitable gas transport tariffs Westcoast Energy Goes Live with Compugen EmergeCompugen's New E-Procurement Product Improves Total Cost Management by Linking Information Technology Purchase Transactions with Enterprise Business Systems Suit To Halt Power Plants Dismissed Fpl Energy to Build And Operate New Power Plant in Alabama Altek Power Corp - Update to Ford Macleod Project Takeover of Grid in Doubt: PG&E's Bankruptcy Filing Complicates the State's Plan to Acquire Power Lines. San Francisco Chronicle: the Energy Crunch: Governor, Utility in War of Words Power Woes Likely to Be Limited to West and NYC Californians Fight to Keep Their Lights on Already the Most Energy-Efficient State, California Is under Orders to Conserve More. Its Actions Will Provide a Model for the Usa. Pumped Up for Power Castaic Plant Charged with Helping Meet L.A.'S Electricity Needs Calif. Gov. to Buy Power Lines Fed Agency to Discuss Power Demands Vendors Won't Pass Energy Crisis Cost On To CUs-Yet California strikes deal to avoid second power bankruptcy ?INTERNATIONAL - Access stories online at: http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-intr.htm Khristenko Holds Energy Talks in Brussels BRAZIL MUST SAVE ENERGY, INCREASE SUPPLY Cnooc Ltd. Acquires 52.7% Stake in Zhongshan Jiaming Power for Usd 39.52 Mln Sanix to Build Thermal Power Plants by FY '03 National Energy Board Approves Westcoast Energy Application to Purchase Maxhamish Pipeline Zambia, Uganda And Kenya to Have Power Transmission Interconnection Ge: Hydro Turbine Orders to Rise, Thermo Orders to Remain Constant - Brazil Brazil: Edf Focuses on Power Generation Projects West African Countries to Set Up Power Pool Powergen Fallsto Germansin Pounds 5bn Deale.on Energy Group Hopes to Win Clearance by Next Year Price at Bottom Range of Forecasts Russia to Help India Build Power Plant in Kudankulam Editorial: Uneven Energy Deregulation Eia: World Energy Use to Grow 59% by 2020 Harken Energy Corp - Signs First Agreement in Peru Cbi's 4th Annual Private Power in Central America; Privatization & Development Opportunities, Growth of Regional Electric Markets And New Fuel Choices Tomen to Build Japan's Biggest Wind Farm in Iwate Talisman Energy Inc - Issues Corporate Social Responsibility Report - Independently Verified Report Sent to Shareholders Beaver River Gas Well A5 Producing 18 Million Cubic Feet of Natural Gas Per Day; Additional Re-Entry Well Planned for Summer 2001 Smi: Foreign Investors Need to Be Familiarised with The Kuwait Energy Industry Poland issues tenders for 10 pct stakes in two thermo-electric plants Pledge to Reconstruct Power Plant Nylect Technology unit wins electrical contract for wafer plant in Malaysia Iran Key Energy Source for India, Premier Says Schroeder eyes Russian energy sector in debt-for-equity discussion World Bank Procurement - India, Power Sector Reform Pakistan's US$2.2 Bln Power Project to Be Completed by July 2003 ?KRT - Access stories online at: http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-krt.htm Chicago-Area Power Firm Cannot Rule Out Brownouts This Summer As Demand Grows, Insufficient Electric Lines Could Choke Off Power in Midwest California Power Company Files for Bankruptcy Protection Pacific Gas & Electric Files for Bankruptcy; California Governor Slams Move California Lawmakers Upset by Utility's Bankruptcy Filing Investors in Pacific Gas And Electric Worried in Wake of Bankruptcy Filing Energy Giant Asks Northwest Aluminum Industry to Shut Down for Two Years California Utility Finds Some Relief, But Power Problems Continue for State California's Power Struggle Drags on Amid High Prices, Shortage of Electricity Some California Leaders Urge Seizure of Power Contracts, Plants Surging Power Prices in San Jose, Calif., Area Impinge on Housing Programs California Turns Attention to Coal for Energy Solutions San Francisco Judge to Make Big Decisions in PG&E's Bankruptcy Case Seattle-Area Power Company Proposes Higher Rate for Peak-Use Times The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif., Andy Mccue Column Federal Officials Look to Assuage Impact of Summer Energy Prices Midwest States Try to Capitalize on California Power Woes Philadelphia Residents Protest Gas Company's Rate Increases Energy Industry Megalith Takes Over Millstone, Conn., Nuclear Plant New Power Plant May Arise in Clark County, Nev. Nevada Legislators Discuss Future Electricity Rates Las Vegas-Based Company Plans to Build Alternative Energy Devices Despite Court Ruling, Houston-Based Reliant Energy Will Stay in California Colorado-Based Utility Plans to Let Gas Customers Gamble Detroit Free Press Doron Levin Column San Antonio's Municipal Electric Utility Readies for Competition Pennsylvania's Deregulation Is Painless -- So Far Pilot Program to Test Texans' Readiness to Buy Into Electricity Deregulation California Utility Takes Its Case to Bankruptcy Court San Antonio Makes Move for Power-Hungry California Companies ?REUTERS - Access stories online at: http://news.powermarketers.com/news/articles/ElectricPower.html Calif. nuclear power seen unscathed by energy crisis UtiliCorp sees Q1 results up 15-17 pct vs year-ago EPA seeks to dismiss utility lawsuit over mercury PSEG scraps plans for power plant in White River, Ind. Florida Power files shelf for up to $500 mln in bonds SKorea March foreign net stock buying 41.1 bln won U.S. judge postpones PG&E rates arguments, allows payments 100,000 Con Ed customers choose another electric supplier UPDATE 2-EnBW group acquires 59 pct of Cantabrico shares UPDATE 1-U.S. utilities shine amid earnings doom and gloom SCE&G planning 500-MW to 600-MW power plant in S.C. UPDATE 4-German nuclear train enters France after protests TEXT-Moody's affirms NRG Energy Baa3 rating UPDATE 2-FPL expects to meet Q1 EPS consensus estimate U.S. Southeast seen facing few summer power worries Ariz. Public Service extends Palo Verde nuke outage UPDATE 1-New Polish minister cautious on energy sell-offs Poland to start power price liberalisation in July European Commission okays first 2001 Serbia aid IntercontinentalExchange has record natgas trade Duke/Fluor Daniel granted $400 mln contract INTERVIEW-India says Enron issue won't affect investment FPL Energy sets North Alabama power plant INTERVIEW-Mirant sees no impact from PG&E W-H Energy Services raises earnings outlook Powergen asset-backed CP rolls on despite takeover FPL expects to meet Q1 EPS consensus estimate of 76 cents Mirant says on track for 2001 EPS of $1.55-$1.60 Japan power plant to be fueled by plastic waste NEW on the PowerMarketers.com TRAINING PAGE: Access all online presentations at: http://www.pmaconference.com The presentations below are from PMA's Power Markets 2001, taped at the Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, March 15-16, 2001. RealVideo-based powerpoint-based presentations, with the accompanying audio. 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