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At 9 a.m., the Independent System Operator, which controls most of California's grid, ended a Stage 1 alert. It was the first time since Jan. 13 that the state hadn't been under a power emergency, declared when low supplies threaten grid stability. http://199.97.97.163/IMDS%PMAKRT0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/knightri dder/2001/02/27/krtbn/0000-0338-SA-POWER-ALERT PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC DECLINES COMMENT ON STATUS OF POWER GRID SALE TALKS PG&E Corp. declined to confirm California Gov. Gray Davis' prediction Tuesday that the state will conclude an agreement to buy the transmission assets of its Pacific Gas & Electric Co. utility unit within two or three weeks. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2001/ 02/27/eng-djn/eng-djn_210053_90_2343033626676 US HIGH COURT SAYS EPA ERRED IN SETTING OZONE STANDARD The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an attack on the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to write air quality standards, ruling Tuesday that Congress hadn't given the agency too much power to set pollution limits. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2001/ 02/27/eng-djn/eng-djn_140102_223_026655577123 MIRANT CORPORATION TO MOVE 1,000 MW IN POWER PACTS TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES Mirant Corp. agreed to shift 1,000 megawatts in power contracts from the California Power Exchange to the Department of Water Resources, which is acting as the state's electricity buyer. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2001/ 02/27/eng-djn/eng-djn_210051_3_53283406700939 UTILICORP STILL ON MIDWEST ISO FENCE DESPITE LOOMING DEADLINE Utilicorp United Inc. has not yet decided whether to officially become a member of the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator Inc. grid operating group, a company executive said Tuesday. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2001/ 02/27/eng-djn/eng-djn_190100_193_388186472002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DOW JONES NEWSWIRES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://199.97.97.79/IMDS|PMADJN0,PMADJN1,PMADJN2,PMADJN3,PMADJN4|index PG&E Declines Comment On Status Of Power Grid Sale Talks Mirant Corp. Power Pacts -2: To Provide 750 MW In March Mirant Corp. To Move 1,000 MW In Power Pacts To Calif DWR PRESS RELEASE: Progress Lack Could Hurt Cal Econ-Moody's Progress Lack In Pwr Crisis Could Hurt Cal Econ -Moody's Utilicorp Still On MW ISO Fence Despite Looming Deadline PECO Raising Natural Gas Rates For Residential Customers US High Court/EPA -3: EPA Should Rethink Ozone Rules US High Court - EPA -2: Ruling A Blow To Business US High Court Says EPA Erred In Setting Ozone Standard US High Court Backs EPA Power To Set Air-Quality Rules US High Court:EPA Can't Weigh Costs In Setting Air Rules Enron, Japan Utility In Tie-Up Talks - Nikkei US Weather: Deep South Expecting Thunderstorms HUNGARIAN PRESS: AES Won't Build Hungary Plant FCI To List On NYSE, Paris In 2001 -Cogema Pres Calif Power Officials Thankful For Miserable, Wet Winter Danish NEG Micon/Order -2: To Be Installed This Year REPEAT: Danish NEG Micon Gets DKK425 Mln US Order >K.NEG Aggreko/12-Mo -3: Says 2001 Has Started Well Aggreko/12-Mo Earns -2: Sales Up 24% To GBP279.5M Aggreko FY00 EPS 14.51 Pence Vs 12.33 Pence >U.AGK 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 Generators Could Ease Energy Crisis Some Steps To Power Sector Restructuring Possible This Year Energy Producers Inc. Announces Acquisition of A Majority Net Revenue Interest in Texas Properties Government's Track Record on Energy Energy Firms Try Power Play Ryan Energy Technologies Inc. Announces Results for the Year Ended December 31, 2000 Alliance to Save Energy Watches Energy Action Behind Rhetoric of President Bush's Address to Congress Transalta Seen Winning Mexican 450-Megawatt Contract Comanche Energy, Inc. Retains Advisor Mirant Agrees to Move 1,000 Megawatts in Power Contracts to California Dwr US/Canada Spot Natural Gas: Cash Mostly Inside Monday's Range Chubu Electric to Set Up Independent Power JV in April Nuclear Power Surge Predicted -New March 15 Entry Deadline For Optiron's Billing and Customer Care Challenge Contest Advisory/Powering a Clean L.a.; City Council And Local Government Set Course for Energy Efficiency, Cleaner Air Through Landmark Energy Action Plan Fuel Cell Technologies Corp - Annual General Meeting on May 8, 2001 Repeats: Energy Volume And Open Interest Totals-Feb 27 Department of Energy Application to Export Electric Energy; Idaho Power Company Department of Energy Application to Amend Presidential Permit San Diego Gas & Electric Company Total Energy Services Ltd. Announces Record 2000 Results Astoria Power Plant To Get Go-Ahead NY Natural Gas: Rallies on Power Mkt Strength, Short Covering /C O R R E C T I O N -- Constellation Energy Group/ Energy Deal Signed for Llano Estacado Wind Ranch at White Deer Rates to Rise March 1 for Peco Energy Natural Gas Customers Around New York ; More Hearings This Week on Rockland Power Plant Ford Motor Co. Introduces Stylish Electric Bikes with Th!Nk Bike Traveler and Bike Fun Correcting Table Headers in Fuelcell Energy Release, Bw2306 Rising Utilization Suggests Rising Energy Shares Forrester Research Announces the Birth of The Information Utility NEG Micon wins 54 mln usd contract to deliver 89 wind turbines to Iowa project Total Energy Services Ltd - Record 2000 Financial Results Caminus' Zai*Net Weatherdelta Selected by Williams Energy; Leading Tulsa-Based Company Deploys New Caminus Software to Measure Weather's Impact on Energy Contracts Beacon Power Appoints John Doherty Vice President of Sales And Marketing And Stephen Spanos Corporate Controller Constellation Set to Begin 1st Major Power Plant to Serve Southern California in Over A Decade Vericor Power Systems Offers Onsitepower(TM) Build-Own-Operate Gas Turbine-Based Power Plants Pengrowth Energy Trust - Fiscal 2000 Results (Part 2 of 3) Pengrowth Energy Trust - Fiscal 2000 Results (Part 3 of 3) Arizona's Largest Electric Company Rolls Out Eprise-Driven Web Initiatives for Internal And External Business Broad GOP Energy Bill Unveiled Avista Corp. And Scapca Reach Agreement to Extend Operations of Spokane Power Plant Vector Energy Corp - Bateman Lake #22 Placed Into Production; $700,000 in Potential - Revenue Net Per Year International Absorbents Inc - Significantly Reduces Energy Costs; Return to Energy Prices - at Lower Levels Will Further Strengthen Profitability -Energywiz Announces 2001 Deregulation Seminar Schedule Power Plan Pays Users to Conserve Producing Winds of Change / As Power Prices Rise, Windmills Are One Way to Decrease Costs Governor Urges Water, Power Conservation Kempthorne Warns of Low Snowpack, Orders Agencies to Save Electricity Low-Sulfur Diesel Made From Natural Gas Texas Firm to Manage Energy at Eli Lilly Big Changes for Utilities Bill to Determine Prices If Power Competition Lags Utility Buys Wenninger Toyota to Introduce New Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle Csiro: Salinity Battle Brings Dollars And Energy Neg Micon Wins Usd54m Wind Turbine Order in US Court Weighs U.S. Power Over Utilities ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I N T E R N A T I O N A L ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-intr.htm Philippine Muslim separatists attack state-run power plant Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, February 27, 2001 - 2:20 PM Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, February 27, 2001 - 5:24 PM Toyota Motor Develops New Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle Chubu Electric to Issue Callable Bonds Xcel Energy, Aep Accept Innogy Offer to Purchase Yorkshire Electric Hydro Environmental Resources Signs $1.5m Contract to Build Pilot Energy Plant in New Zealand Spain govt cuts maximum natural gas price to 3.5672 ptas/therm vs 3.6829 Seizure of Shell unit in Nigeria cuts gas to power company Wrap: Innogy to Buy Yorkshire Power for $2.7 Billion (Update 1) Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, February 27, 2001 - 12:22 PM Temelin reactor connected to Czech power grid Toronto Hydro Chooses Mincom Utilities Solution Cvrd Invests US$177mn in Energy - Brazil Mme Reinforces Energy Saving Programs - Brazil Neg Micon to Sign 20.7mw Wind Contract - Jamaica Aep And Xcel Energy Agree to Sell Yorkshire Power Group to Innogy Holdings PLC Setc To Promote New and Renewable Energy Uses in Next 15 Years Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, February 27, 2001 - 9:32 Am Impco Announces $4 Million Order from India for 4000 Natural Gas City Bus Systems Italy: Rolls-Royce Gets o6 Million Energy Projects Contract Moscow, Seoul to Cooperate in Fuel And Energy Complex. Wrap: Innogy to Buy Yorkshire Power for $2.7 Billion Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant Supplies 10 Bln kWh Power To Hong Kong in 2000 Ocean Power Corporation Executes First Regional Joint Venture Agreements Patent Application for 'Generation of Hydrogen' Filed by Reg Technologies, Inc. India's National Thermal Power Corp to Take Over Ailing Power Plants Greymouth Petroleum to offer 3.70 usd per share for Fletcher Challenge Energy Innogy acquires 94.75 pct of Yorkshire Power for 508.6 mln stg FULL:UK's Innogy to Buy 94.75% of Yorkshire Power for 508 Mln Stlg Pke in Talks to Buy Coal Mines Valued at One Billion Zlotys Smi: Smi Updates Portfolio of Energy Management Reports Uk's Innogy to Buy 94.75% of Yorkshire Power... - Part 3 Uk's Innogy to Buy 94.75% of Yorkshire Power for 508 Mln ... NZ company launches rival bid for NZs Fletcher Challenge Energy Large-Scale Repair Launched at Primorye Electric Station. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KRT DAILY ENERGY NEWS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-krt.htm Tennessee Valley Authority Uses Military Technology to Prevent Power Outages Judge Says California Utilities Should Be Forbidden to Lay Off Workers California Senator Announces Plan to Reward Electricity Conservation California Governor's Deadlines on Energy Are Much Easier Set Than Met California Lifts Power Alerts, But Experts Say Crisis Is Far from Resolved Pennsylvania's Deregulated Electricity Market Proves Tough for Competition New Term on Pennsylvania Natural Gas Bills Confuses Customers Pueblo County, Colo., Commissioners Discuss Water Strategy Hickman, KY., Finds Cause of Recent Power Outage Florida Utilities Find Deregulation a Hard Sell in Face of California Debacle Unit of Iowa-Based Energy Group Sues California Utility for Nonpayment American Water Works Withdraws from Proposed Deal with California Water Firm The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., Odd Jobs Column Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Street Smart Stock Analysis Column Alliant Energy Hopes for Easing of Wisconsin Law to Enable Buyout Houston's Reliant Energy Puts Its Power-Bill Fight with California on Hold Massachusetts Utility Asks Regulators to Cut Rates by 18 Percent Colorado Commission Forces Xcel Energy to Add Wind-Power Farm to Its Plans Congressional Battle Expected Over New Energy Security Bill Texas Railroad Commission Presents Forum to Air Gripes About Energy Bills ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REUTERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://207.32.82.57/news/ElectricPower.html No Stories Available Tuesday, February 27, 2001 ********************************************************* NEW on the POWERMARKETERS.COM TRAINING PAGE ********************************************************* Access all online presentations at: http://www.pmaconference.com New! 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