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Pressure to Liberalize Electric Power Rates Power Failure PetroQuest Energy Acquires Interest in Ship Shoal Block Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, December 26, 2000 - 2:29 PM Rgs Energy Unit Files $400 Million Debt Shelf (Rgs) No Signs of Let Up in Energy: 12:30 P.M. EST Wild Open Market Entices Power Plant Petroquest Energy Acquires Interest in Ship Shoal Block 72 Field Sure Power Names Whit Allen Vice President of Sales; Former Lucent, at&T Global Sales Veteran to Lead Business Development for Pioneering High-Availability Power Company Los Angeles Department of Water And Power Daily Energy Update for Tuesday, DEC. 26, 2000 Kcs Energy, Inc. Reaches Agreement with Creditors' Committee And Noteholders on Amended Plan of Reorganization `Server Farm' Boom Poses Threat to NW Power Supply: Energy Appetite of Proposed Data Centers Would Almost Rival Power Load of Seattle - Twenty-seven Or More Internet ``Server Farms'' Proposed for the Area Could Consume Nearly as Much Electricity as Seattle and Greatly Magnify Northwest Energy Proble Strong Winds Fan S. Calif. Wildfires Energy Output on the Rise, Mining And Industry Slow Down Puc Puts New Restrictions on Utility Merger An Artic Blast -- Minus 50 Wind Chill, Snow Forecast for Today -- Freezing Rain, Icy Roads Harass Friday Commuters Tree-Trimming War Renewed -- Illinois Power Asks Icc for Guidelines on State Legislation Cilco's Customers Likely to Be Zapped with Bolt of Sticker Shock -- Here Are Some Tips to Turn Down Thermostat on Energy Costs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I N T E R N A T I O N A L ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-intr.htm China to Build More Natural Gas Power Plants Bank to Offers 10-Billion-Yuan Credit to Power Giant Kawasaki Heavy to Sell Home-Use Solar Power Systems Credit Suisse to Look for Partners for Dhabol Power 2 Mega Projects in Philippines to Boost Luzon Power Grid Endesa in 1.1bn Deal for Netherlands Power Group New Vietnamese Thermal Power Plant States Trail Runs Iran's Power Generation Capacity to Rise to 150 Bln Kwh by 2005 Indonesia's Power CO Pln May Not Need Subsidy in 2001 Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, December 26, 2000 - 11:43 Am US Tsys Softer as Traders Eye Calif Power Situation Power Supply Reestablished to Azerbaijan After Payment of First Instalment Gulf Power Link-Up Eximbank Finances Iranian Power Plant Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, December 26, 2000 - 8:57 Am Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, December 26, 2000 - 7:46 Am Thesubway.Com Announces Investment Opinion on Cambridge Energy, 3 Com Corp., CMGI Inc., Harmonic, Inc. And Berens Industries Inc. PNOC-Energy Devt Corp seeking financial advisor for privatisation The Rmb 6.95 Billion Yuan Credit Facility Granted by Bank of China to Huaneng Power International, Inc. China: Adb Lends $58m for Wind Power Project Town Adopts Resolution Against Expanding Kyushu Power Plant China State Power Corp closes thermal power plants with 3.11 mln kw capacity Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down After Pump Malfunction Serbia Plunges Into Energy Crisis Lead: Yamagata Avalanche Sweeps Away 4 Power Station Workers 4 Power Station Workers Missing After Avalanche in Yamagata Iran, Taleban Meeting on Energy Cooperation Prospect Macedonian Power System "Stabilized" Despite Deficit in Neighbouring Countries Japan: Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down After Pump Malfunction China: Central Bank Offers 10bn Yuan Credit to Power Giant Kenya: Single Shareholder Challenges Power Company's "Massive Loss" Russia Starts Shipping Nuclear Power Station Parts to Iran ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KRT DAILY ENERGY NEWS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-krt.htm State Commission Orders Wilkes Barre, Pa.-Area Utility to Hike Generation Rate California's Energy Crisis Produces Increased Demand for Firewood North Carolina Municipal-Power Trade Group Urges Halt of Deregulation Efforts Scottish Power to Buy Powergen's Plant in Hertfordshire, England South Carolina Utility Finds Signs of Cracks in Pipes at Nuclear Power Plant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REUTERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://207.32.82.57/news/ElectricPower.html UPDATE 1-Winter storm ices over U.S. heartland UPDATE 2-California's Davis meeting with Greenspan, Summers US Corp Bonds - Dead, but California Dreamin' Ice storm knocks out power to 89,000 in Texas, Ark., La. 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