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"Starting on Monday, April 9, the PowerMarketers.com Daily Power Report will be sent to you in HTML Format. This means you will be able to click on the headlines and go straight to the stories! Many of you have been clamoring for this for a long time-- it's coming!!! But for those who can't read html, you can still get the text version (or both text and html for that matter). Just go to: http://www.retailenergy.com/headsel.htm Thanks for reading" ====================================================================== The Industry's Preferred Source For Breaking Energy News And Information http://www.powermarketers.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- T H E P O W E R M A R K E T E R S .C O M P O W E R R E P O R T Today's Headlines From POWERMARKETERS.COM Subscriptions to The PowerMarketers.com Power Report are free - you will never be charged. You may redistribute this e-mail without change. You may not redistribute stories. 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For the current issue of ENERGY JOBS WEEKLY, download at: http://www.pmaconference.com/040101EnergyJobs.pdf ************************************************************************ --------------------T O P S T O R I E S-------------------- Top Stories (April 4) CALIFORNIA LOOKS TO BUILD ITS OWN POWER PLANTS Step by step during the energy crisis, California has transformed itself into a power baron, spending billions on electricity and looking to buy 26,000 miles of transmission lines. http://199.97.97.163/IMDS%PMAKRT0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/knightri dder/2001/04/04/krtbn/0000-0480-SJ-ENERGY MID-AMERICAN INTERCONNECTED NETWORK/SUMMER -2: 5,473 MW OF POWER ADDED IN LAST YEAR The Mid-American Interconnected Network Inc., a grid-monitoring group for the central Midwest region, said Wednesday that increased power supplies will improve utilities' ability to meet expected demand levels in the region this summer. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2001/ 04/04/eng-djn/eng-djn_160105_214_674451646861 VIRGINIA ENERGY FIRM FINALIZES DEAL TO BUY WATERFORD, CONNECTICUT, NUCLEAR PLANT The Millstone 3 nuclear plant moved toward a return to 100 percent power operations Monday as the station began its first week under a new owner, Dominion of Virginia, which faces some immediate challenges as it takes control. http://199.97.97.163/IMDS%PMAKRT0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/knightri dder/2001/04/04/krtbn/0000-0330-NL-NUCLEAR-ENERGY NEW 200-MW POWER PLANT TAKING SHAPE IN MONTPELIER, INDIANA DPL Energy Inc. is building a 200-megawatt generating plant in a rural area just north of Montpelier. With a natural gas pipeline at hand for fuel, the $80 million plant is expected to begin sending out power by mid-June. http://199.97.97.163/IMDS%PMAKRT0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/knightri dder/2001/04/04/krtbn/0000-0210-FW-POWER-PLANT GE POWER SYSTEMS ACQUIRES PROGRAMMA ELECTRIC AB GE Power Systems announced today the acquisition of Programma Electric, a leading provider of comprehensive solutions for the maintenance and testing of primary and secondary equipment in transmission and distribution substations. http://199.97.97.163/IMDS%PMANAT0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/comtex/2 001/04/04/cc/0000-2065-KEYWORD.Missing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DOW JONES NEWSWIRES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://199.97.97.79/IMDS|PMADJN0,PMADJN1,PMADJN2,PMADJN3,PMADJN4|index Japan Power Cos, PNJ Commun To Integrate Data Ops -Nikkei Bonneville: Spilling for Fish Suspended Due To Drought MAIN/Summer -2: 5,473 MW Of Power Added In Last Year Mirant's German Ambitions Suffer As Berlin Rejects Deal End In Sight Seen For Spain's Cantabrico Takeover Saga Ferroatlantica/Cantabrico -3: EnBW Seen Content With 50% Union Fenosa, Soluziona Sign Pacts With Sun Microsystems Ferroatlantica/Cantabrico -2: Follows CNMV's Approval Ferroatlantica Sees No Problem With Govt Over EDF Link Ferroatlantica Sees Obtaining Over 60% Of Cantabrico Enel Pays ITL1.5 Tln For Gas Turbines From GE, Ansaldo RWE Assessing CNMV Approval Of Rival Hidrocantabrico Bid UniSource Outlook-2:Sees '01 Net At Least $1.45/Shr <UNS CNMV/Cantabrico/Ferroatlantica -2: No Bid Condition<E.HIC CNMV Clears Ferroatlantica's EUR27.30/Shr Cantabrico Bid UniSource: Increase On Wholesale, Retail Mkt Strength UniSource Energy Sees 1Q Net 50c-To-60c/Shr Vs 1c Yr Ago 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 Change Due for Fixed-Rate Utility Pricing Power Proposals Scrutinized Williams Confident Ferc Will Allow Continuation of Market-Based Rate Authority for California Power Sales Energy Update/Los Angeles Department of Water And Power Issues Energy Update for Wednesday, April 4, 2001 Power Woes Affecting Calif. Economy Sam Houston Electric Cooperative Selects Enterprise Utility Solutions to Complete Data Collection And Systems Integration US/Canada Spot Natural Gas: West Cash Soars on Strong Power Mkt California to Probe Utility Finances Kansas City Power & Light Selects Newenergy !Mpact to Integrate Their Budgeting And Financial Forecasting Nctm And Duke Energy Announce Partnership to Provide High-Tech Professional Development for Math Teachers Constellation Energy Group Breaks High Desert Ground; 1st Major Southern California Power Plant in Over A Decade Coga Announces Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Investment Forum Ulh&P to Seek Increase in Natural Gas Base Rates Endless Energy Purchases Valkyrie Resources Inc. Metretek Inc. And Gasmark to Test-Market Powerspring Energy Management Software Grocers Cut Power Usage California's Power Crisis Continues Icf Consulting Study Predicts Turning Point in Wholesale Power Markets Lawmaker's Energy Idea Killed Rep. Wendy Jaquet Suggested S. Idaho Not Turn Clocks Back House Oks Bill to Soften Utility Rate Shock Gas, Electric Firms Would Be Allowed to Issue Bonds Nyseg Publishes Report on New York's Evolving Electric Energy CrisisCompany Challenges Assumptions in Nyiso Report Nyseg Believes Infrastructure Not in Place to Create Wholesale Electric Market Until 2008 Repeats: Energy Volume And Open Interest Totals-APR 4 Puget Energy Subsidiary Infrastrux Group Acquires Intercon Construction, Inc.Expansion of Utility Services Capability Positions Puget Energy As A Leader in Sector Consolidation Kill Bw2177, Electric Reliability Outlook Continues to Improve in Midwest Proton Energy Systems Announces Operation of First High Pressure Hydrogen Production Cell Stack Mirant, Cook Inlet Power Agreement Marks Industry First for Minority Business Coal Industry Feels It Has a Good Friend in White House Xantrex Goes 100% GreenCompany's Purchase of 'Green Tags' Contributes to Solving The Region's Long-Term Energy And Environmental Challenges Governor: California power crisis to last three years Energy Assistance Deadlines Extended; Customers Urged to Call Dominion East Ohio If They Need Assistance Business-Type Hourly Load Data Helps Solve Electricity Marketing And Pricing ProblemsHourly Loads And Monthly Energy Profiles Are Available by 4-Digit Sic Codes And Residential Market Segments for Counties, Metro Areas And States Worst Power Shortage Likely in May And June, Davis Warns Northwest Drought to Affect Fires, Farming, Fish And Energy Kaiser Nets $130m from Power Bonneville Power Administration Could Pull Plug Utility Taxes Fall in Plan Manugistics: Manugistics Seeing Accelerating Demand for Its Chemical And Energy Industry Solutions Reliant Energy Services Selects Tibco Software to Automate Its Wholesale Energy Trading Settlement Process Altra(R) Teams with Tibco Software to Provide Integration Capabilities for New Energy E-Commerce Initiative Emk3 Adds Natural Gas Marketing at the Well Site to Popular Online Energy Marketplace GE Power Systems Acquires Programma Electric Ab House Passes Bill to Facilitate Construction of Power Plants Lehigh Coal & Navigation Digging for $5 Million Loan to Reopen Mine ** 200 Jobs at Stake. Company Shut Down Panther Valley Pit in February, Citing Financial Problems. HUD Bid Brings in Power Deal Regulators Set a 2003 Launch for Power Choice Dominion Virginia Power Wanted Program to Begin Locally in 2004 Regional Power Agency Says Minnesota Will Have Adequate Electric Supplies This Summer Csu, Uc Power Provider to Cut Contract-(San Diego State U.) West Virginia And the Energy Crisis: Doublespeak; Taxpayers Fill the Big Business Trough ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I N T E R N A T I O N A L ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-intr.htm Mosaic Energy Announces New Fuel Cell Commercialization Partner, Ihi Russia To Step Up Export of Electric Power To European Countries Russian Atomic Energy Ministry Rejects U.s. Criticism Top Energy Summaries - Wednesday, April 04, 2001 - 5:21 PM - Germany's Dnt to Distribute Electric Fuel Instant Power(TM) Chargers -Metro Cash & Carry Stores Place Initial Order Following Cebit Show Top Energy Summaries - Wednesday, April 04, 2001 - 2:26 PM BP given consent to build gas-fired power station at Jaguar site in Liverpool UK govt approves extension of Great Yarmouth Power's South Denes power station Zimbabwe, Drc Sign Pact on Power Supplies Top Energy Summaries - Wednesday, April 04, 2001 - 12:20 PM Venezuelan Electrical Projects Get 212m-Dollar Development Loan Third Unit at Rivne Nuclear Power Plant Halted for Repairs Paraguay: Government Grants Energy Subsidy to Parana River Mill Argentina: Developments in the Energy Sector Brazil: El Paso Concentrates Sales of Electric Power in Brazil Brazil: El Paso Energy to Bring Thermoelectric Plants from Thailand Uk: BP Signs Deal for Largest Solar Project in the Philippines Spain: Competition to Acquire Spanish Utility Hots Up Germany: Rwe Sets Sight on Polish and Czech Power Producers Top Energy Summaries - Wednesday, April 04, 2001 - 9:32 Am Ukraine: Generating Set at Nuclear Power Station Stopped Due to Accident Device Captures Energy from Tides Top Energy Summaries - Wednesday, April 04, 2001 - 7:44 Am FT Energy Reports: UK Utilities Could Do More with E-Commerce Powergen to seek buyer for combined heat, power ops Powergen CHP Automated Power Exchange Acquires Scandinavian Power Broker, M3 Kraft, Positioning Company to Become One of The Largest Global Electricity Power Exchanges Malaysia's Tenaga Nasional May Use Mixed Fuel in Power Stations Formosa Plastics group to build power plant in Vietnam: report ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KRT DAILY ENERGY NEWS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-krt.htm Speakers Discuss Energy Issues at Connecticut Business, Industry Forum Chicago Energy Firm Grants Extension to Non-Paying Customers Energy Crisis Begins to Seep Into Utah Market San Francisco May Vote on Plan to Launch A Power Authority California Looks to Build Its Own Power Plants Steelworkers Win Bonus Pay from Indiana Utility California Water Agencies Seek to Continue Exemption from Blackouts Energy Conglomerate Eyes York County, S.C., for Headquarters Central Illinois Utilities Start Residential Disconnections Business Gas Disconnections Rise in Central Illinois Florida's Largest Electric Utility Agrees to Cancel $9 Billion Merger California Utility Chief Has Landed in the Energy Spotlight California Utilities Panel Hearing Is Flooded by Protesting Consumers Morristown, N.J.-Based Utility's Customers Likely to See Higher Rates Virginia Energy Firm Finalizes Deal to Buy Waterford, Conn., Nuclear Plant Florida Electric Utility Is Back to Square One in Replacing Chairman Topeka, Kan.-Based Western Resources Sees Profits Spike 880 Percent in 2000 Kansas Consumer Group Requests Subpoena of Utility Company's Records Regulator Orders Nevada Utilities to Submit Financial Data to Back Rate Hike Commission Hearings Continue Over Las Vegas-Based Utility's Gas Refund Nevada Senate Debates Bill to End Sale of Electric Power Plants Indiana Utilities Prepare for Possible Early-Summer Energy Crunch New 200-Megawatt Power Plant Taking Shape in Montpelier, Ind. Rising Energy Costs Prod Texas to Cut Use Abandoned Florida Power Company Merger Sticks Shareholders with The Bill Texas Prepares to Harness Energy from Wind Through High-Tech Turbines Columbia, S.C.-Based Utility Rethinks Scope of Donation Winter Heating Bills Turn Up Cutoffs in South Carolina California Businesses Pass Increasing Utility Costs to Consumers Mississippi Utility May Shuffle Executives New Mexico Utility Officials Hope to Prevent Meter Fraud ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REUTERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://news.powermarketers.com/news/articles/ElectricPower.html Calif. to get $4 bln bridge loan for power purchases UPDATE 1-Ministers deal telecoms blow to EU Commission Tech, energy woes threaten Calif. economy-survey UPDATE 1-Pacific salmon seen threatened by power plan FUND VIEW-Seligman finds yield in unlikely places TEXT-S&P cuts National Rural unit's m-term notes rtg TEXT-S&P cuts Citizens Communications snr unsec debt TEXT-Moody's may cut Union Electrica Fenosa A1 rtg Canada natgas mostly eases in mild weather forecast ConEd, Old Dominion to build 1,020-MW gas power plant US POWER-Heat waves forecast, Calif. blackouts still loom Lindsey says govt can't stop Calif power shortage PSEG Power to sell $1.6 bln in multi-tranche debt deal SCANA unit signs power supply pact with S.C. utility Friends of the Earth wants EPA head Whitman to resign TEXT-S&P may cut Enersis S.A. rating Toronto stocks drift lower at midday UPDATE 1-Con Edison targets 5 percent annual growth Brazil power sector privatization fired up again Enron calls on Ontario to open power market quickly BPA drops spill plans at Columbia River dams UPDATE 2-UK power companies win pensions ruling New Issue - Carolina P&L sells $300 mln in 7-year notes U.S. Mirant's chairman meets Berlin mayor over Bewag US POWER-Calif. steps to solve power crisis may backfire Pa. Limerick 2 nuke to shut Wed. for refuel U.S. still has major energy demands - Greenspan TXU's Comanche Peak nuke outage not extended due to tubes ANALYSIS-S.Africa telecoms IPO holds privatisation key UPDATE 1-Enel buys 18 gas turbines for $693 mln ********************************************************* NEW on the POWERMARKETERS.COM TRAINING PAGE ********************************************************* Access all online presentations at: http://www.pmaconference.com Coming soon! PMA Power Markets 2001 presentations, taped at the Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, March 15-16, 2001. Don't forget you can choose to stream the presentation immediately over the web, or download it to your computer for later viewing-- Free! RealVideo-based powerpoint-based presentations, with the accompanying audio. Running about 30 minutes each, 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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