Message-ID: <9254403.1075841871091.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:56:00 -0800 (PST) From: pmadpr@worldnet.att.net Subject: PowerMarketers.com Daily Power Report for 6 March 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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Download brochure at http://www.pmaconference.com/E-Business.pdf ************************************************************************ --------------------T O P S T O R I E S-------------------- Top Stories (March 5) CALIFORNIA GETS 40 POWER CONTRACTS The state has reached long-term contracts with electricity suppliers to keep power flowing to customers of two financially ailing utilities, Gov. Gray Davis announced Monday. http://199.97.97.163/IMDS%PMANAT0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/comtex/2 001/03/05/ao/0000-3387-power-woes SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON SEEKING NEW CASH IN ADVANCE OF ANY SETTLEMENT Edison International told investors Friday that it was seeking bridge financing for its Southern California Edison utility unit to bring in cash in advance of a settlement with California. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2001/ 03/05/eng-djn/eng-djn_120227_203_582363768946 CITY APPROVES GREEN POWER PURCHASE -AMONG LARGEST IN NATION BEGINNING IN JULY 2001 The Los Angeles City Council on Friday, March 2, approved one of largest purchases of renewable green power in the nation. http://199.97.97.163/IMDS%PMANAT0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/comtex/2 001/03/05/bw/0000-4619-ca-dept-water-.-power US SUPREME COURT WON'T HEAR FLORIDA POWER PLANT LAW CHALLENGE The U.S. Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a constitutional challenge to a Florida state law barring the construction of power plants to serve competitive wholesale electricity markets. http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2001/ 03/05/eng-djn/eng-djn_140230_177_603875251953 BRITISH ENERGY HAS NUCLEAR PLANS British Energy, the nuclear electricity generator, is making plans to replace its existing portfolio with nuclear, rather than gas- fired, plant. The move, which would have been unthinkable a year ago, follows a near-trebling in wholesale gas prices in the last six months, on the back of soaring oil prices, worries over Britain's dwindling North Sea gas supplies and over global warming. http://199.97.97.163/IMDS%PMAINTL0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/bellsup er/2001/03/05/DTEL/0000-1984-KEYWORD.Missing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DOW JONES NEWSWIRES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://199.97.97.79/IMDS|PMADJN0,PMADJN1,PMADJN2,PMADJN3,PMADJN4|index Exelon, Xcel Take Utility Name Dispute To Federal Court Northeast Utilities Poised To Battle Storm; No Action Yet New Jersey Winter Storm Vignettes Duke Energy/Calif. Power Pact -2: To Begin Jan. 1, 2002 UK Innogy Uses Web To Auction Decommissioned Power Plant Duke Energy: Sales To calif. To Total $4B Over 9 Yrs>DUK Body Of Worker Killed In W.Va. Plant Accident Recovered Most Flights Canceled At NY Airports; Govt Offices Shut Flights Canceled/Northeast US -2: Travelers Stranded US Supreme Court Won't Hear Fla Power Plant Law Challenge US Supreme Court/EPA -2: States, Utilities Fought Rules US Supreme Court Lets Stand EPA Interstate Smog Rules Duke Energy Seeks To Double Auth Cmn Shares To 2B From 1B NY, NJ Offices, Schools Closed -2: Most Flights Canceled AmerenUE 1,500-MW Callaway Near Full Power After Repairs Venezuela Telecom Regulator To Start LMDS Auction By May Flights Canceled, Schools Closed By Storm In Northeast US NY, NJ Offices, Schools Closed But Commuters Go To Work Over Foot Of Snow In Upstate NY; Sleet, Wind In Northeast So Cal Ed: Seeking New Cash In Advance Of Any Settlement PG&E Corp: Creditors To Be Paid Within One Week New Jersey Still Waiting For The Worst Of The Storm US Businessmen Call For Early Meeting Of US, India Govts US Northeast Prepares As Snowstorm Begins To Hit Region 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 Hampshire Mayor Casts Tie-Breaker to Suspend Village Tax on Natural Gas Bonneville Power Administration: Earthquake Preparedness Pays! City Approves Green Power Purchase -- Among Largest in NationBeginning in July 2001, 10 Percent of City Government's Electricity Will Be Purchased from New Clean Renewable Energy Sources Pure Resources, Inc. Announces Its Participation in the Cibc World Markets Annual Energy Conference Lincoln Electric to Join Marketing Group Renewable Energies Focused in Combating Global Warming: UN National Green Power Company Hires Coo; Thomasson Most Recently Vice President of A Privately Funded Startup GPU Energy Restoration Update Magnetek, Inc. Expands Its Reach in North American Telecom Market with Acquisition of ADS The Power Resource, Inc. Commodities Update: Energy Up; Export Ideas Rally Livestock Fitch Rates Allegheny Energy Supply's $400mm Notes `BBB+' Calif. Gets 40 Power Contracts Oregon energy deregulation not like California's Difrancesco Backs Opponents of Power Plants Engineers to Demonstrate Electric System That Aims to Avert Power Failures Through Automatic Adjustments to Consumption Duke Energy Signs Memorandum of Understanding for Long-Term Power Sales to California Fox, Bush To Push Respective Energy Needs In Visit Top Energy Summaries - Monday, March 05, 2001 - 2:23 PM Bush Calls Energy Security Foreign Policy Priority Pogo Producing Company Retains Madison Energy Advisors to Divest of Pipeline Assets Lexxor Energy Inc. Announces the Addition of Five Technical Positions Repeats: Energy Volume And Open Interest Totals-Mar 5 Coal Giant Luscar Secures Time to Search for White Knight Bidder Beacon Powers Up for Energy Technology Conferences Energy Update/Los Angeles Department of Water And Power Daily Energy Update for Monday, March 5, 2001 Lean Imports And Off-Line Power Plants Lead to Stage One Emergency; California ISO Requests Consumers to Cut Back on Energy Use Calif. Power Report Seen As Ferc Test Firoz Rasul, Chairman And CEO of Ballard Power Systems, Named National Transportation Person of The Year Prize Energy Closes $65 Million Apache Acquisition Power Plugs in Space Extensive U.S. Coal Supply, Demand Study Available from Hill & Associates Management`S Discussions: 10-K405, Geodyne Energy Income Ltd Partnership Iii-a 1 of 2 Natural Gas Prices for March Fall 21% Nationwide As Decline Goes Into Second Month, According to Platts Zap Taps Into Solar Energy Veteran Alternative Energy, Transportation Companies Form Alliance Jeffrey S. Young Joins Pa Consulting Group's Energy Strategy And Risk Management Practice Duke Energy Corp - Signs Memorandum of Understanding for Long-Term Power Sales to - California Unocal Enters Into Deepwater Gom Exploration Agreement with Ocean Energy Texas Electric Choice Launches Statewide Advertising Campaign; Texans Can Begin Shopping for Retail Electric Providers During Pilot Program Lodestar Pricingexpert Supports Siebel Eenergy; Lodestar Corporation Embraces New And Expanded Ebusiness Solution for the Energy Industry Promax Energy Inc - Acquires Balance of Working Interest in Cessford GPU Energy Reports No Widespread Customer Outages Uqm Technologies Introduces Advanced Propulsion System for Hybrid, Electric And Fuel Cell Vehicles at 2001 Sae World Congress Methane Gas to Be Turned Into Power Uc Pioneers Conservation / Two Decades of Innovations Prepared Campuses for Energy Price Crunch U.S. Fuel Cell Council: New Report on Fuel Cell Power for Vehicles Doreal Energy Corp - Tapir Association Contract & Corporate Update High Power Costs Force Alumina Production Cuts in the US Power Plant's Value at Issue Growth Takes Center Stage the 2001 Legislature Will Decide Whether the State Will Put Power to Control Sprawl Back in Local Hands. Roseland Resources Ltd.: Marchwell Capital Corp - Roseland Announces Take Over Bid for Marchwell Energy Corp. National Energy Board - Agreement Reached on Preliminary Information Package for Gas - Development in The Northwest Territories Magin Energy Inc - Financial Advisors Retained ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I N T E R N A T I O N A L ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-intr.htm Energy Problems Utility Behemoth Angles for Deep Discount on Italian Carrier Ecuador: Government Invests to Set Up Solar Energy in Amazon Villages TOTALFINAELF COMPLETES GENER POWER COMPANY DEAL Foreign Firms to Boost Uzbek Energy Sector British Energy Has Nuclear Plans SeaWest to Conclude Codelco Wind Studies Mid-2001 - Chile Expert panel set up to overhaul India's power sector Energy Services Signs Three Long-Term Services Agreements in the Gulf Siemens wins 130m dollar contract for UAE power station turbines Chile: Codelco's Power Energy Supply Auction to Help Grow Electrical Energy Industry Calpine's Quest for Power / American Indians Split Over Bay Area Supplier's Efforts to Tap What Some View As Their Own Source of Sacred, Spiritual Energy Construction of Power Expansion Project Begins Siemens wins 140-mln-euro power plant contract in United Arab Emirates India's Dabhol Power Company May Seek Help from Arbitor STOCKWATCH: British Energy weak as Goldman cuts to 'market underperformer' PNOC geothermal unit offers to buy Napocor's geothermal assets International Power Begins Construction of 280mw Al Kamil Power Plant in Oman Tanzania, Zambia Start Work for Cross-Border Power Project Combined-Cycle Power Plant Inaugurated in Karaj, Iran Guangdong Daya Bay nuclear plant 2000 power output exceeds 14 bln KwH Johnson Electric moves production to China, Mexico from Mississippi Greenpeace Asks Government to Axe Coal-Fired Power Plants ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KRT DAILY ENERGY NEWS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at http://www.powermarketers.com/pma-krt.htm Snohomish County, Wash., Utility to Use Software to Improve Distribution Spokane, Wash.-Based Utility to Operate Generating Plant for Cost Savings The Record, Stockton, Calif., Eric Grunder Column Panel Approves Expansion of Wake County, N.C., Nuclear Waste Storage Facility Providence Journal, R.I., Peter Phipps Column Elderly Residents of Colorado Springs, Colo., Cope with Utility Cost Increase Japanese Contractor Stops Deliveries to California Nuclear-Weapons Project -CEO of Atlanta Natural Gas Firm Reflects on Deregulation of Industry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REUTERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Access stories online at: http://news.powermarketers.com/news/articles/ElectricPower.html EU mergers and takeovers (UPDATED MARCH 5) Update 1-S.C. Summer nuke seen at full power by weekend UPDATE 1-Duke agrees $4 bln Calif. power contracts Duke (DUK.N) agrees $4 bln Calif. power contracts Duke agrees $4 bln Calif. power contracts UPDATE 1-U.S. Supreme Court lets stand EPA pollution rule UPDATE 1-Brit Energy dips on broker advice Progress Energy completes N.C. natural gas pipeline UPDATE 1-U.S. storm means hundreds of canceled flights S&P rates El Paso Corp euro 500 mln offering Brazil real firmer on expected dollar inflows Power lines may raise cancer risk, UK study shows HEADLINES STOCKS - U.S. stocks to watch on March 5 Autonomy, Intl Power set for ejection in FTSE rejig Suez seeks Air Liquide alliance -paper Air NZ, Ansett win NZ$180 mln engineering contract ********************************************************* NEW on the POWERMARKETERS.COM TRAINING PAGE ********************************************************* Access all online presentations at: http://www.pmaconference.com New! 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