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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 3) WHITE HOUSE MOVING QUICKLY ON ENERGY POLICY BLUEPRINT The White House energy policy task force headed by Vice President Dick Cheney is moving as rapidly as possible to develop its recommendations and will issue its final blueprint no later than June, an administration official said Tuesday. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2001/ 04/03/eng-djn/eng-djn_150044_69_3577501340769 AMEREN EXPECTS 676-MW OF NEW ILLINOIS POWER ONLINE BY SUMMER Ameren Corp.'s nonregulated power affiliate expects to bring about 676 megawatts of new natural-gas-fired power in Illinois online this summer, a company spokesman said Tuesday. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2001/ 04/03/eng-djn/eng-djn_180055_91_8908775527962 DOMINION, PEOPLES 750-MW ILLINOIS POWER PLANT DUE UP IN SUMMER A 750-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant near Chicago planned by Dominion Resources Inc. and Peoples Energy Corp. will start operations this summer as planned, a Dominion spokesman said Tuesday. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2001/ 04/03/eng-djn/eng-djn_200104_36_9225209020078 CON ED, OLD DOMINION TO BUILD 1,020-MW POWER PLANT IN MARYLAND Old Dominion Electric Cooperative and Con Edison Development, an unregulated subsidiary of Consolidated Edison Inc., will jointly build a 1,020-megawatt natural-gas-fired peaking power plant in northeast Maryland. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2001/ 04/03/eng-djn/eng-djn_210102_202_823272445239 LOUISIANA'S RETAIL ELECTRIC PLAN DRAWS WIDESPREAD CRITICISM Widespread opposition has been expressed to a proposal from the staff of the Louisiana Public Service Commission to introduce electric deregulation in early 2003, but only for large industrial power consumers. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2001/ 04/03/eng-djn/eng-djn_220051_125_552907767706 OHIO UTILITY WATCHDOG SAYS ELECTRIC COMPETITION SLOW, BUT STEADY A state-appointed advocate for Ohio utility rate-payers said Tuesday that electric competition has been slow to develop in the state, three months after Ohio opened markets to retail competition. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2001/ 04/03/eng-djn/eng-djn_220103_55_0384336779825 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DOW JONES NEWSWIRES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://199.97.97.79/IMDS|PMADJN0,PMADJN1,PMADJN2,PMADJN3,PMADJN4|index Ohio Util Watchdog Says Elec Competition Slow, But Steady FERC Appointees Wood, Brownell Meet With US Senators Louisiana's Retail Elec Plan Draws Widespread Criticism Con Ed, Old Dominion To Build 1,020-MW Power Plant In Md. Dominion, Peoples 750-MW Ill. Pwr Plant Due Up In Summer EU Ministers Seek To 'Pressure' US On Kyoto Protocol Ohio Pwr Coop Sues Cinergy, Alleges Anticompetitive Move Iowa State House Passes Incentives For New Pwr Plants Nextel To Fund Export Unit's Cash Needs This Year >NXTL Florida Power & Light Sr Sec Confirmed Aa3 By Moody's 6 Entergy Units Outlook Now Stable Vs Positive - Moody's Ameren Expects 676-MW Of New Ill. Power Online By Summer PRESS RELEASE: Moody's Outlook For FPL Group Is Stable PRESS RELEASE: Moody's Outlook For 6 Entergy Units Stable TXU Europe Sells 19.2% Of Cantabrico To Adygesinval Montana Power/10-K Delay -2: Recorded 3Q $10M Provision White House Moving Quickly On Energy Policy Blueprint Montana Power Reviewing Acctg For Previous Loss Prvsn Buffett Reveals Holdings In Gap, Costco, GPU Inc. >GPS Avon Energy/GBP360M Eurobond -2: Reoffer 99.814 PRESS RELEASE: S&P Rates Avon Energy GBP360M Issue BBB+ Avon Energy Prices GBP360M Eurobond; Gilts +1.68 Avon Energy GBP360M Bond Issue Gets BBB+ Long Rtg: S&P Entergy Estimate -2: First Call 1Q Net View 38c/Shr >ETR Entergy Sees Yr Operational Earns $3-To-$3.20 A Share Entergy Puts 1Q Operational Earns 10%-15% Above Views 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 Rising Energy Costs Prod State to Cut Use Agency Officials Say Savings of $36.5 Million Are Possible Each Year. Energy Measures Run Low on Steam Few May Pass: Lawmakers Have Second Thoughts About Bills Berkshire Filing Shows Reshuffling Omaha-Based Conglomerate Buys Stake in Utility And Tells of Other Changes in Its Portfolio Utah Businesses Reeling from Higher Energy Bills Cpuc Officially Exempts Bart from Rolling Power Outages Power Supplier Files Lawsuit Against Pacific Gas And Electric Company; Dynamis, Inc. Seeks to Suspend Power Purchase Agreement in Order to Provide Power to Grid Reliant Energy Reduces Stake in Itron to 8.38% (Itri) Henwood Releases 'Northeast Markets: Survival of the Fittest' As Part of Its Comprehensive Suite of Northeast Power Market Advisory Services Luscar Re-Establishes Coal Valley Sales to Ontario Power Energy Ventures Inc. And Sre Controls Inc. Agree to Produce A Ready-to-Market Direct Methanol Fuel Cell System Nuvera Fuel Cells Demonstrates Natural Gas Fuel Cell Powering Verizon Peace Software Teams with Exolink to Deliver Efficient B2b Solutions for Energy Retailing Clayton Williams Energy Announces South Louisiana Well Tests And 3-D Seismic Agreements Repeats: Energy Volume And Open Interest Totals-APR 3 Tiny Energy CO-OP Sues Cinergy Corp. (Cin) for $26 Million, Alleging Conspiracy to Scuttle Choice Program Fpl Expects Sufficient Generation to Meet Summer Demand, Files Annual 10-Year Update with Florida Public Service Commission CMS Energy Announces Regulatory Approval for Expansion of Its CMS Trunkline LNG Terminal Environmental Power Corporation Not to Declare A Quarterly Dividend Sempra Energy Solutions Powers 'Arena of the Year'Energy Services Company Recognized for Its Contributions to The Award-Winning Venue Wssc Taps Constellation Energy Source to Develop Energy Savings Program Applying a Bit of Energy Enron, JC Penney in energy management deal; to buy 600 mln usd of commodities Allen Introduces Measure to Cut Power-Plant Emission California Crisis Underscores Need for Hedging Energy Price Risk Retail Electric Choice: What It Means for Psnh Customers New Energy Pricing Tool Needed to Stave Off Capital Starvation for Energy Companies Massey Energy Company's Martin County Coal Preparation Plant Reopens Public Power Renewable Energy Action Team Launched; Non-Profit Center for Resource Solutions Assumes Management Responsibilities GE Power Systems Makes Acquisition to Expand Air Emissions Testing And Monitoring Services Former Bush aide sees more nuclear power key to avoiding deeper energy crisis Electronic Energy Trading Begins to Take Hold Ohio Consumers' Counsel Issues Status Report on First Three Months of Retail Electric Competition in OhioDespite Few Choices for Electric Consumers, Education Efforts Must Continue Enron And Jcpenney Announce Long-Term Energy Management Agreement Sempra Energy Solutions Picks Excelergy's Energy Software to Handle Restructuring Energy Markets WorldwideExcelergy's New Complex Billing Component Helps It Beat Competing Vendors to Provide Software to One of World's Largest Energy Companies Montana Power Announces Delay in Filing Form 10-K Gemini Energy Corp: Ultra Petroleum Corp - Gemini Updates Warbonnet Development Sempra Energy Solutions Picks Excelergy's Energy Software to Handle Restructuring Energy Markets Worldwide Landlords Unite on Energy Issue Media Advisory - Ontario Power Generation, Nuclear Report Cards Released Anadarko Reports Outstanding Central Texas Well Results; Perseverance Uncovers New Upside Potential And Valuable Natural Gas Tnmp Customers May Now Choose Wind Energy Option Utc's International Fuel Cells to Power World's Largest Fuel Cell Installation Citizens Gas & Coke Utility Selects Planalytics' Weathernomics Gas Buyer to Help Manage Natural Gas Buying And Hedging Emex Corp. Plans to Build Natural Gas Synthesis Plant, Negotiating $100 Million Financing -- Company Plans to Build Five Natural Gas Synthesis Units As California Braces for Summer Power Shortages, CNN Newsroom Airs Powering The Planet Motorola Energy Systems Group Teams with Nexergy, Inc. to Provide A Complete Portfolio of Energy Systems Based on Lithium-Ion/Polymer Technology to An Expanded Customer Base of Original Equipment Manufacturers Boost for 45,000-Homes Wind Farm Bush Trades Global-Warming Concerns for Energy Profits Falcon Acquires Hill-Lake Natural Gas Storage Facility Green Mountain Energy Company Announces 100% Clean Wind Power Product for Texas Electric Customers Deadline Looms for Richland Power Deal GE Power Systems Acquires Programma Electric Ab Us: First Residential Earthsafe(Tm) Solar Electric System Installed Myutility Inc. Acquires Utility.Com's Assets; Energy Information And Efficiency Solutions Provider Buys Utility.Com's Web Platform & It Staff Calpine Breaks Ground on the Calgary Energy Centre250-Megawatt Natural Gas-Fired Electricity Generating Facility to Enter Commercial Operation in December 2002 Georgia Power Race Discrimination Lawsuit: Company 'Lying,' Says Cochran ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I N T E R N A T I O N A L ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-intr.htm Ontario Securities Commission: Arc Energy Trust: Arc Resources Ltd: Startech Energy Inc: Impact Energy Inc - OSC Re Arc Energy Trust Exemptive Relief Applications Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, April 03, 2001 - 2:36 PM Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, April 03, 2001 - 12:20 PM Tengasco Inc - Signs 20-Year Natural Gas Sales Contract - with British Aerospace at Holston Ammunition Arsenal Arthur D. Little Wins Contract to Advise on Restructuring of Saudi Arabian Electricity SectorGovernment-Owned Electric Utility Is Largest in The Middle East, Providing Power to More Than 3 1/2 Million Customers Trimol Group to Participate in Fuel Cell ConferencesChief Scientific Officer Presents Ground Breaking Aluminum-Air Fuel Cell Developments LongBow Energy Corp. Announces It Has Entered Into a Electrabel sees wind power projects slowed by planning, military restrictions Tengasco Signs 20-Year Natural Gas Sales Contract with British Aerospace at Holston Ammunition Arsenal Peru: New Destination for Bolivian Natural Gas Peru: Edelnor Signs Power Purchasing Contract with Egenor Chile: El Paso Energy And Repsol Ypf Consider Gas Pipeline Extension Energy Conservation Technology Spread in China UK Government: Advance Energy Statistics Corus, Amec, Northern Electric in study on UK wind farm project STOCKWATCH: International Power rises as Deutsche Bank upgrades to 'buy' Vietnam Completes Contract for Phu My Power Plant Additions Japan to lend 16.68 bln yen to Costa Rica for power plant Jpmorgan Hires Paul Horsnell to Head Energy Research RPT: KEPCO transforms 6 power generation plants into wholly owned subsidiaries China West-East Power Transmission Beneficial to All Sides China's Liaoning Chooses 8 Sites for Wind Power Development Coal firms exempted from full fuel price hike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KRT DAILY ENERGY NEWS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-krt.htm Norfolk, VA., Consumers Will Have Choice of Energy Providers in 2003 Tennessee Valley Authority Chairman Retires with `Mixed Record' Unfinished Nuclear Power Plant in Hollywood, ALA., May Become Coal Plant More Jobs to Be Cut Through Chicago, Philadelphia Energy Firms' Merger California Energy-Saving Program Pays $75 to Recycle Old Refrigerators Decreased Snowpack Won't Ease Summer Energy Woes in California California Consumers Question Government's Skill in Dealing with Energy Crisis Seattle Electric Utility Reduces River Flow to Aid Salmon Washington State Lawmakers Zap Energy Package Sacramento, Calif., Power Board Keeps Eye on Utility's Request to Raise Rates California Revenue Directive Worries Utilities The Sacramento Bee, Calif., Jack Sirard Column Alternative Generators Declare War Against Big Utilities in California California Memo Indicates State Will Fall Short of Power Plant Goal Frustrated California Consumers Seek Promised Rebate for Energy Efficiency California Governor Blasts Republicans Over Energy Crisis California Utilities Underestimated Impact of Rate Hike Virginia Consumers Prepare for Electricity Deregulation California Power Officials Reiterate Need for Line in Riverside County, Calif. Rate Hikes Are Better Than Blackouts, Expert Tells Ontario, Calif., Area Colorado Utility Companies Discuss Effect of California Crisis Orlando, Fla., Utilities Customers to See Increase in Power Bills California Experts Say More Needed to Solve Energy Crisis California Governor Meets with Fellow Democrats to Discuss Electricity Crisis Costa Mesa, Calif.-Based Engineering Firm Capitalizes on Electricity Crisis Hampton Roads, VA.-Area Consumers Prepare to Choose Their Own Power Company Florida Utility Executives Retain Incentives for Defunct Merger Florida Energy Company Calls Off Merger with New Orleans Utility Florida-, Louisiana-Based Power Companies Abandon Merger Hydrogen Cell Fuels Valencia, Calif., Manufacturer's Optimism Massachusetts Electric Company Increases Rates Natural Gas Costs May Worsen California Energy Crisis, Experts Tell Lawmakers Natural Gas Woes to Continue Throughout Summer in California Entergy Merger Plan Just Latest Could-Have-Been for Fpl Utility Executives Detroit Free Press Mike Wendland Column Michigan Utilities Keep Ahead of Power Shortages, Executives Say Iowa Utilities Board Considers Extending Winter Moratorium Labor Unions, Seniors Oppose Iowa Power-Plant Bill The Bakersfield Californian Decisionmakers Column Merger between Electric Utility Firms in Beaumont, Texas, Area Falls Through Portales, Texas, Electric Cooperative Receives Federal Loan for $2.2 Million ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REUTERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://news.powermarketers.com/news/articles/ElectricPower.html UPDATE 1-Calif. regulators approve order on power bonds Dynamis sues PG&E for $3 mln in past-due payments Kaiser Aluminum to consider smelter restart this fall UPDATE 1-Calif. ends alert as power supplies return to grid UPDATE 1-Edison gets more time; Calif. may sell $14 bln bonds Ontario's nuclear plants exceed targets U.S. confident of innovations on climate change EU official says US can't kill global warming accord Canada natgas prices rally on better supply balance Five groups bid for Moroccan wind power farms NRC considers plan to convert plutonium to reactor fuel Enron unit, J.C. Penney sign $600 mln energy deal UPDATE 1-Xcel Energy sees 1st half topping analysts' view New Issue-Rochester Gas & Electric sells $200 mln notes Dutch lower house okays energy distributor sales TEXT-S&P rates NRG ENERGY notes BBB-minus S&P rates Zapadoceska Energetika l-t, s-t ratings Morocco asks Siemens for final talks on power plant TEXT-S&P affirms Green Mountain Power BBB rtg New Issue - NiSource Finance sells $300 mln 2-yr notes Green Mountain to provide 100 pct. green power in Texas EU ministers set to clip Commission on telecoms UPDATE 1-Entergy sees Q1 eps well above estimates UPDATE 1-Edison, PG&E may take $6.8 bln charges Japan nuclear body says inflated budget request HEADLINE STOCKS - U.S. stocks to watch on April 3 Lithuania utility in 1-yr export deal with Russia UES Atmos Energy lowers Q2, full-year view ********************************************************* 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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