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The past few weeks have seen the announcement of several takeover bids, both friendly and otherwise. http://199.97.97.163/IMDS%PMANAT0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/smallcap center/2001/01/22/eng-smallcapcenter/eng-smallcapcenter_162234_110_47611941350 6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DOW JONES NEWSWIRES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://199.97.97.79/IMDS|PMADJN0,PMADJN1,PMADJN2,PMADJN3,PMADJN4|index Top Bush Officials Discuss California Power Crisis CP&L Gets NC, SC OK To Accelerate Nuclear Depreciation Construction Underway On 25.5-MW Wisconsin Wind Farm US Envoy: India's Enron Project Key To Foreign Investment Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor Has Power Industry Abuzz Calif Local Credits Shouldn't Weaken From Crisis: Moody's Pa. PUC Blasts GPU Energy For Calif. Crisis Comparison RWE May Enter Battle Over Spain's Cantabrico PRESS RELEASE: Riverside Pooled Fund On Moody's Watch-Dn Colombia Govt To Fight TermoRio Award, Alleges Foul Play Calif Riverside Pooled Fund Invest On Moody's Watch-Dn Dow Chemical/Amer Elec Power-2:Sells Output To Tractebel Dow Chemical, Amer Elec Power Plan $325M La. Plant <DOW CalPX Announces It Will Permanently Close Down By April California Wearily Faces Another Week Of Power Shortages Caixa Catalunya Leads Financing Of New Wind Energy Plant Japan Power Cos Seek Slow Reforms Amid California Crisis Utility Bankruptcies Would Cause Wide Financial Shocks NZ's Contact Energy Withdraws Fee Resolution From Mtg PG&E/Edison -4: PG&E In Talks With Qualified Facilities FREE TRIAL: For a free trial of the Dow Jones Energy Service go to www.dowjonesnews.com, and click "create account," or call 1-800-223-2274. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N A T I O N A L ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-nat.htm Business Briefly: Lacey's Applied Power Corp. Bought by New York Firm Bush Nominates Hebert for Energy Ppl Corp. Names President of Generation Subsidiary North Carolina Municipal Power Agencies' Generating Plant Value on the Rise Energy Update/Los Angeles Department of Water And Power Daily Energy Update for Monday, Jan. 22, 2001 Answers to West Coast Energy Crisis Blowing in the Wind Energy Merger Dance Gathers Momentum Wrap: Enron Profit Rises 33% as Growth Surges in Energy Services Businesses Winter Energy Crunch Delco Remy, Aerovironment Introduce Ipower Technologies Llc, Focus of New Company Is Distributed Generation And Hybrid Electric Vehicles Talisman Energy And Seneca Resources Announce Appalachian Gas Joint Venture Energy Search, Incorporated Announces Adjustment to Series "A" Warrant Exercise Price Natural-Gas Producer Goes Horizontal Babcock & Wilcox Awarded $100 Million Contract to Build New Coal-Fired Power Plant in Wyoming Hagel to support Abraham for Secretary of Energy BP Solar Bullish in Regional Market Top Energy Summaries - Monday, January 22, 2001 - 2:39 PM Nation's Mayors Call for 10 Percent Reduction in National Energy Use Company Unveils Power Plant Plans to Neighbors Power Wait Hinges on New Plants Advisory/State Controller Connell And Senator Polanco to Announce Energy Crisis Initiative in LA Outlook: US Power Cock-Up Tractebel signs 20-yr deal to purchase output from American Electric Power Energy Crisis Likely to Have Minimal Impact on State's Economy, Expert to Tell Cpas Construction Begins on Iowa County, Wisconsin, Wind Farm; Wisconsin Electric to Buy Power from Fpl Energy Initiates Natural Gas Sales from Its Swan Creek Field to Retail Utility Customers in Hancock County, Tennessee Energy in the Executive Magnadrive Wins U.S. Energy Department Grant for Energy Efficiency Technology Ocean Power Corp And Wind Harvest Revise Agreement GE Power Systems Acquires Mk Engineering, A Combustion Optimization Technology CompanyTechnology Improves Combustion Efficiency And Reduces Emissions for Fossil Generation Power Plants Tractebel Enters Into Power Purchase Agreement with American Electric Power Panel Targets Fuel Cell Generation Equal to 10 N-Reactors Top Energy Summaries - Monday, January 22, 2001 - 9:14 Am California Faces More Power Outages Beacon Power Opens New Headquarters in Wilmington, Massachusetts Ebusiness Technologies Powers Web Site for Energy LeaderPuget Sound Energy to Manage Content with Engenda Salomon Upgrades Duke Energy to Buy, Lifts Target to $100 (Duk) Dow And American Electric Power Reach Agreement to Develop New Cogeneration Plant to Serve Dow in Plaquemine, LA. Tengasco Initiates Natural Gas Sales from Its Swan Creek Field to Retail Utility Customers in Hancock County, Tennessee Parts of Sacramento Lose Power: Equipment Malfunction in Oregon Spurs Outage Calif. Working on Power-Supply Deal Top Energy Summaries - Monday, January 22, 2001 - 7:30 Am Ocean Power Corporation And Wind Harvest Revise Agreement Power Corporation And Wind Harvest Revise Agreement Glitch Cuts Power in Central Valley / Davis Will Name Czar to Oversee New Plants Tibco Software Enables Real-Time Information Flow for Southern Energy's North American Online Trading Operations Ballard Power Systems And Victrex PLC Announce Alliance for The Development And Manufacture of Ionomers for Ballard Fuel Cells Virginia Natural Gas Doubles Its Aid Amount Toward Adequate Energy and a Clean Environment Are Power Companies Hurting High Tech? Power Shortage May Electrify Coal, Nuclear Industries Keeping Track: Natural-Gas Costs Americans Get More Help with Their Utility Bills ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I N T E R N A T I O N A L ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-intr.htm Japan Should Aim for 5 M. Fuel-Cell Cars by 2020: Panel Sempra Energy Completes Sale of Energy America to Centrica LeBoeuf Breaks Into South Africa with Energy Practice Power Generation Too Big for Tanzania Private Sector--Cti Ministry to Publish Bidding Rules for Geothermal Prospects - Chile Machu Picchu to Re-start Generation in April - Peru Indian Government: Renewable Energy Seminar Inaugurated Ballard Power Systems And Victrex PLC Announce Alliance for The Development And Manufacture of Ionomers for Ballard(R) Fuel Cells The 4th Int'l Electric Power Tech. & Equipment Exhibition STOCKWATCH International Power gains as Goldman Sachs upgrades stance Singapore power industry faces big bang Benpres unit, Siemens Power to settle dispute over equipment supply delay World Bank to Loan US$180 Mln for Rajasthan Power Sector Feasibility Reports for 5 Hydro Projects Sent to Pakistan CE Russia to Use More Coal for Power Generation Lignite Power Plant Joint Venture in Laos Scottish Power Eyes PowerGen Oman to Invite Power Plant Bids ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KRT DAILY ENERGY NEWS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-krt.htm York County, Pa., Residents Uneasy About Plan for New Sewage Treatment Plant Aging San Joaquin County, Calif., Windmills Need Repair Interior Secretary Signs Decision to Hold California to Water Entitlement Colorado Senator Wins Approval for Deadline Extension on Aquifer Study Paducah, KY., Gas Diffusion Plant to Be Completed by March California Power Crunch Plays Games with Orange County, Calif., Businesses Southern California Largely Spared While Lights Go Out in North British Electricity to Advertise on London Taxicabs Victorville, Calif.-Based Water District Imposes Surcharge for Electricity The Business Press, Ontario, Calif., Letters to The Editor Buffalo, N.Y.-Area Power Company Looks to Alter Pricing Scenario New Mexico Utility Sets Up New Emergency Warning System ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REUTERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://207.32.82.57/news/ElectricPower.html No Stories Available 01-22-01 ********************************************************* NEW on the POWERMARKETERS.COM TRAINING PAGE ********************************************************* Access all online presentations at: http://www.pmaconference.com New! Now you can choose to stream the presentation immediately over the web, or download it to your computer for later viewing-- Free! New! Five additional RealVideo-based powerpoint-based presentations, with the accompanying audio. Running about 30 minutes each, the new selections include: ELECTRONIC TRADING. Power is following natural gas to become an electronically-traded commodity. The products, the technology and the future of electricity transactions. Kevin Sluder, Vice President, HoustonStreet Exchange. NUTS AND BOLTS OF RETAILING. What it takes to put an energy retailing operation together-- the cash and credit requirements, back office, information technology, staffing, marketing, sales and organizational considerations. Andrew Serri, Vice President, AmerenEnergy Marketing. RETAIL: WHAT WENT WRONG, HOW TO FIX IT. Retail electric deregulation has thus far been an underwhelming success, but a great deal has been learned, and it is eminently fixable. By Dr. John O'Brien, Principal, Skipping Stone MANAGING BILLING. The complex requirements for managing billing and commodities in the deregulating energy industry cannot be met with current CIS and CRM technology. Energy Retailers must embrace the next evolution of energy customer management (ECM) solutions. Paul Grey, Chief Technology Officer, Peace Software. THE INTERNET AND THE VELOCITY FACTOR. Greater price transparency, faster execution, reduced transaction costs, increased number and frequency of transactions and increased specialization are just some of the changes to energy markets wrought by the web, and it's just beginning. Implecations of the internet for energy markets. E. Russell "Rusty" Braziel, Chairman and Director, Altra Energy Technologies. 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