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INDUSTRY PUBLICATIONS






Natural Gas Intelligence (Apr. 19, 2007)



Natural Gas Intelligence summudles for Apr. 19, 2007


Apr 19, 2007Â PowerMarketers Industry Publications



First Enercast Featured Articles for April 19, 2007  



First Enercast Featured Articles for April 19, 2007   Forecast & Analysis - Top Stories - Financial - Releases - Weather Stories


Apr 19, 2007Â PowerMarketers Industry Publications



UtiliPoint Interviews LeRoy Nosbaum About Itron's Acquisition of Actaris (UtiliPoint.com - Apr. 19, 2007)



UtiliPoint.com - Apr. 19, 2007 - On Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Itron completed its acquisition of Actaris. The transaction creates a company that is the largest metering and AMR/AMI company in the world.


Apr 19, 2007Â PowerMarketers Industry Publications



Letters From Readers (EnergyBiz Insider - Apr. 19, 2007) 



EnergyBiz Insider - Apr. 19, 2007 - Below are a few letters we received on topics that appeared in the past few weeks. They capture the essence of how many readers say they feel. 


Apr 19, 2007Â PowerMarketers Industry Publications








NATIONAL NEWS






Power outage update 5465465



Apr. 18--More than 8,000 Duke Energy customers were still without power in Alexander, Burke, Caldwell and Catawba counties at 10:30 a.m. today. Only one customers was still out in Alexander County, 102 in Catawba. Those customers should be restored by 11 p.m. today, a Duke Energy official said.  The remainder -- 3,775 in Burke County and 4,353 in Catawba County --?should be restored by 11 p.m. ...


Apr 18, 2007Â Knight Ridder Tribune Business News



Nearly 2,000 remain without power following winds: One family in Hudson is using generators to keep food from spoiling.



Apr. 19--HICKORY -- Steve Bryant believes he'll be one of the last to get power back.  Bryant lives on Horse Shoe Bend Road in Hudson. His power went out around 8:30 a.m. Monday. He's been told it could be late today before he and his family get their electricity restored. The Bryant family has been forced to make some adjustments without power. The family raises beef, and a garden supplies lots ...


Apr 19, 2007Â Knight Ridder Tribune Business News



Backers cheer Progress at meetings, but most critics skip out



Apr. 19--APEX -- The roster of speakers included a mayor, an alderman, a university professor and a chamber of commerce president.  At two meetings Wednesday, they urged the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve Progress Energy's bid to extend the Shearon Harris nuclear plant's operating license into the middle of the century. Largely missing were critics of the nuclear plant.


Apr 19, 2007Â Knight Ridder Tribune Business News



Barton may propose opening up Texas grid



Apr. 19--WASHINGTON -- Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, said Wednesday he's "strongly considering" legislation to open up Texas' primary power grid to interstate electricity trading and increase federal oversight of the state's power market. Mr. Barton, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, last month raised the idea of opening up the intrastate grid after TXU Corp.


Apr 19, 2007Â Knight Ridder Tribune Business News



Plant offer gets cool response: Private utility: It can save monthly costs



Apr. 18--Officials with a private utility in the Lower Keys say they can save taxpayers as much as $5.6 million, but some county officials are skeptical.  "My first impression is: Not interested," County Commissioner George Neugent said. "I don't think they could write an agreement tight enough for the county to get involved again." KW Resort Utilities Inc. last week sent a letter to the Florida ...


Apr 18, 2007Â Knight Ridder Tribune Business News





Probe needed into electricity marketplace



Jay Hancock The rigging of the electricity marketplace to enrich power companies and executives looks even worse than we thought. Just as Maryland was getting shocked by higher kilowatt prices, grid managers have allowed extra profit for generation outfits such as Constellation Energy, parent of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. The bonus, whose magnitude was revealed Friday, might eventually cost ...


Apr 18, 2007Â Baltimore Sun



Furious citizens protest utility's proposed 50 percent rate rise



A small but angry crowd greeted Maryland's Public Service Commission with jeers and scorn last night during a public hearing on BGE's proposed 50 percent rate increase. The crowd of about 30 assembled at Baltimore's War Memorial Building criticized Baltimore Gas and Electric, its parent company, Constellation Energy, and Gov. Martin O'Malley, who nominated four of the five members of the Public ...


Apr 19, 2007Â Baltimore Sun



Contractor accused of tampering with power grid's computer system



(04-18) 16:33 PDT SACRAMENTO -- A man whose company was contracted to work for the state's power grid was arrested today after he allegedly attempted to sabotage the agency's electricity markets and made a threat that forced the evacuation of the agency's Sacramento-area building earlier this week. Lonnie Charles Denison, 32, was employed by an unnamed company that contracted with the Independent ...


Apr 19, 2007Â San Francisco Chronicle



Al Gore's home on way to creating electricity (03:00pm)



Al Gore got what he wanted: Permission to create electricity. The city of Belle Meade on Tuesday said the former vice president could put 33 panels on top of his Lynnwood Boulevard home to convert sunlight into energy. The process had been slow because the city first had to change its zoning laws to allow solar panels. A stipulation was included, however, that the equipment put on homes in the ...


Apr 19, 2007Â Tennessean





TXU Proceeding with KKR/TPG Merger After 'Go-Shop' Process Ends



DALLAS, April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TXU Corp. (NYSE: TXU), a Dallas-based energy company, announced today that the 'go-shop' process conducted on its behalf by Lazard Freres & Co LLC (Lazard), the independent financial advisor to the TXU Board of Directors and its Strategic Transactions Committee, has ended. During the process, no proposal was received that could reasonably be expected to ...


Apr 18, 2007Â PR Newswire



Allegheny Energy and American Electric Power to Form Joint Venture to Build 765-kV Transmission



02:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time Allegheny Energy and American Electric Power to Form Joint Venture to Build 765-kV Transmission PJM Planning Study Calls for Transmission Expansion GREENSBURG, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Allegheny Energy, Inc. (NYSE:AYE) has signed a memorandum of understanding with American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP) to form a joint venture company to build and own new electric ...


Apr 18, 2007Â Business Wire



Copano Energy Increases Quarterly Cash Distribution



Ninth Consecutive Increase Since IPO     HOUSTON, April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Copano Energy, L.L.C. (Nasdaq: CPNO) announced today a cash distribution for the first quarter of 2007 of $0.42 per unit, or $1.68 per unit on an annualized basis, for all of its outstanding Common Units. This distribution is Copano's first distribution following its March 30, 2007 two-for-one unit split and is ...


Apr 18, 2007Â PR Newswire



Pacific Gas and Electric Company Ranked Second in National Gas Pipeline Customer Value Study



SAN FRANCISCO, April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MastioGale today announced that PG&E has been ranked number one in the western region and second in North America in their annual study that measures customer value of gas pipelines in the United States and Canada. 'PG&E is honored to be recognized as one of the nation's most customer friendly natural gas pipeline operators,' said Bob Howard, ...


Apr 18, 2007Â PR Newswire



Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. Expands Propane Business



DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE:ETP) today announced the continued expansion of its retail propane subsidiary, Heritage Propane, through the recent acquisition of Hillsboro Gas Company located in Tampa, Florida and M & J Gas Company, Inc., in Lumberton, North Carolina. These acquisitions added more than 8,000 customers to Heritages propane operations and combined ...


Apr 18, 2007Â Business Wire



Bureaucrats Undermining Energy Policy Act, Renewable Industry Group Charges



Bureaucratic delays in implementing the 2005 Energy Policy Act (EPAct) are undermining the achievement of our national energy policy goals, according to the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), the US geothermal industry trade association. 'It's been nearly two years since Congress passed EPAct, and rules implementing key geothermal provisions are still not completed,' GEA charged in testimony ...


Apr 18, 2007Â PR Newswire





Annual U.S. Wind Power Rankings Track Industry's Rapid Growth



Wind continues to rank as one of the largest sources of new power generation and a mainstream option to meet growing electricity demand The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) recently released its annual rankings of wind energy development in the United States. The U.S. wind energy industry installed over 2,400 megawatts (MW) of new power generation in the country, an investment of about $4 ...


Apr 18, 2007Â Power Online



TXU to proceed with KKR/TPG merger, seeing no better offers



said the 'go-shop' process it conducted to find an offer superior to the proposed $45-billion acquisition by an investor group has failed to produce any better proposals. The Dallas-based energy company said it will proceed with the sale to the group of investors led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co. and Texas Pacific Group. Under the terms of the merger agreement, TXU said shareholders would ...


Apr 19, 2007Â Platts



Kansas City Power & Light Issues Request For Proposal For Wind Energy In Missouri And Kansas



Utility seeks to add a minimum of 100 MW in 2008 and up to an additional 300 MW by 2012 Kansas City, MO - Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L), a subsidiary of Great Plains Energy, announced recently it is seeking bids to develop up to 400 MW of emission-free, renewable wind generation in Missouri and/or Kansas. KCP&L will assess proposals to add a minimum of 100 MW in 2008 and up to an additional ...


Apr 18, 2007Â Power Online



Market Regulation Services Inc.: Resume, Eastshore Energy Ltd



Investor's Business Daily, IBD and CAN SLIM and their corresponding logos are registered trademarks of Data Analysis, Inc.  2000-2007 Investor's Business Daily, Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy StatementTerms and Conditions of Use More sites from IBD: IBDeditorials.com  2007 William O'Neil + Co. Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. The William O'Neil + Co. Database and all data contained herein ...


Apr 18, 2007Â Investors Business Daily



FP&amp;amp;L offers case for clean coal



presented its case to build an advanced clean coal technology power plant at a Florida Public Service Commission hearing. Environmentalists countered, voicing concerns about pollutants. The Juno Beach-based electricity company requested the state regulator allow it to proceed with its plans for the Glades County plant. Among reasons FP&L gave were the importance of maintaining fuel diversity, ...


Apr 18, 2007Â South Florida Business Journal



Texas Utility Says KKR - Texas Pacific Bid Is Still the Biggest



Texas Utility Says KKR-Texas Pacific Bid Is Still the Biggest DALLAS (AP) - Electric utility TXU Corp. said Wednesday it is going ahead with a $32 billion sale to buyout firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co. and Texas Pacific Group after no better offers surfaced during a solicitation period that ended this week. TXU said financial advisers Lazard Freres &amp; Co.


Apr 18, 2007Â Canadian Business Magazine




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INTERNATIONAL NEWS







Finavera Renewables CEO Provides Update on South African Wave Energy Project for the Clinton Global Initiative Mid-Year Meeting



VANCOUVER, Canada--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Finavera Renewables Inc. (TSX-V:FVR) (the Company) is pleased to announce it has completed the preliminary site evaluation and selection process for its 20 megawatt (MW) wave energy project in South Africa (the Project). A preliminary report prepared by ZLH Consulting Engineers Ltd. has identified priority sites for the wave energy project.


Apr 19, 2007Â Business Wire



Hydrogenics Signs Multiple Orders Toward Development of Pre-Commercial Fuel Cell Markets



Hydrogenics Corporation (TSX: HYG)(NASDAQ: HYGS), a leading designer and manufacturer of hydrogen and fuel cell systems, announced today that it has received HyPM&#174; Fuel Cell Power Module orders to date in 2007 from eight new customers and one repeat customer, for deployment in a range of pre-commercial markets. The total value of these orders is approximately $1.0 million and in some cases ...


Apr 19, 2007Â Internet Wire



Kyocera To Double Manufacturing Capacity For Solar Modules



-- Kyocera Corp. will double its manufacturing capacity from 240 megawatts (MW) to 500 MW by end of March 2011, the company announced April 18. 'For the last two years, as we endured a shortage of solar-grade silicon, Kyocera has focused on improving solar-cell quality and energy conversion efficiency,' stated Tatsumi Maeda, general manager of the company's Corporate Solar Energy Group.


Apr 19, 2007Â Industry Week



Liaoning Hongyaun Nuclear Power Plant Gets Green Light for New Project



Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar  Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). The feasibility study report examination meeting for phase I of the Liaoning Hongyaun Nuclear Power Plant project was held by the China Electric Power Planning and Design Institute at Dalian, April 6-8, 2007. Related experts, representatives, as well as leaders from China National Defense ...


Apr 19, 2007Â Internet Wire



Elevated Power Requirements Ensuring Market Growth in the Chinese UPS Industry



DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c54140) has announced the addition of the Frost & Sullivan report: Chinese UPS Markets to their offering The Frost & Sullivan research service titled Chinese UPS Markets analyzes the key drivers and restraints impacting the sales prospects of UPS systems in China.


Apr 19, 2007Â Business Wire



Mirant Announces Agreement for Sale of Caribbean Business



ATLANTA, April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mirant Corporation (NYSE: MIR) announced today that it has entered into a definitive purchase and sale agreement with a subsidiary of Marubeni Corporation for the sale of its Caribbean business for $1.082 billion, which includes related debt of approximately $350 million, power purchase obligations of approximately $153 million and estimated working ...


Apr 18, 2007Â PR Newswire



Solarfun Signs Long Term Agreement to Supply Photovoltaic Modules to Ecostream



SHANGHAI, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Solarfun Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ:SOLF), a leading manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules in China, and Ecostream, a leading renewable energy system integrator based in the Netherlands, are pleased to announce a supply framework agreement in which Ecostream has indicated its intention to procure 182MW of photovoltaic modules from Solarfun ...


Apr 18, 2007Â Business Wire



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