Message-ID: <16369568.1075841869009.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:46:00 -0800 (PST) From: pmadpr@worldnet.att.net Subject: PowerMarketers.com Daily Power Report for 23 January 2001 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: "The Power Marketing Association" X-To: X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \kate symes 6-27-02\Notes Folders\Power marketer X-Origin: SYMES-K X-FileName: kate symes 6-27-02.nsf Attention POWER REPORT Readers: Go to http://www.powermarketers.com/prdaily.htm to view today's edition with direct headline links to each story.] ====================================================================== 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. 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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? 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