Fund ITER Now [PDF]

Is a national scandal how America deals with energy research. Certainly not like a leader of the energy world.

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Miles Per Kilowatt - Electrics Get Raady to Tackle Transport [PDF]

The electric car has been quietly rolling down the road for more than a hundred years, but it's never picked up much momentum in the marketplace.

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Here Comes the Smart Grid - Senior Operations Executives Address the Challenges Ahead [PDF]

Utility operational executives, including cheif operating offi cers, vice presidents of operations and others, are well aware of the intelligent utility enterprise and smart grid movements sweeping the industry. But they also say it's probably coming more slowly than many who see an impending energy crisis looming in the United States and the rest of the world would hope.

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Pay For Performance - New Trends in Executive Compensation [PDF]

A year ago, The Associated Press reported that the salaries of CEOs of the Standard & Poor's 500 had "skyrocketed and reached stratospheric heights so that half were making $8.3 million a year and more."

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Raising the Bar - Law Association Prepares for Challenges Ahead [PDF]

You don't have to be a member of the Energy Bar Association to practice energy law, but it helps.

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Ratepayers Are Customers Too - Seeing Their Way [PDF]

Customer fires energy company. That is hardly headline news in competitive energy markets but it would be in markets where utilities still operate as monopolies.

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Embracing Carbon Principles - Guiding Power Investments [PDF]

Concerns over climate change are driving policy makers to impose new regulations on the energy industry. Although uncertainties remain regarding the causes, impact and magnitude of climate change, it is highly likely that regulations related to greenhouse gas emissions will be imposed on the electric utility industry in the relatively near future.

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Getting States Efficient [PDF]

Wal-mart and the National Governors Association recently announced the Greening State Capitols program, a partnership designed to save states across America money and energy by improving the energy efficiency of their capitol buildings. But why would Wal-Mart be concerned with energy use in public buildings?

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Waning Tax Credits - Managing Renewable Energy Projects [PDF]

Despite efforts by industry and many members of Congress, the extension of the largest subsidies for renewable energy projects, the Production Tax Credit and the Energy Credit, remain uncertain, with a December 31 expiration looming.

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Rust Belt to Renewable Belt - Charting a New Course [PDF]

Northwest Ohio and surrounding areas of Ohio have often been called the rust belt because of their old traditional manufacturing base. Ohio, in fact, has lost hundreds of thousands of these types of jobs, leaving behind closed factories.

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Incenting Savings - Utilities' Role in Computer Efficiency [PDF]

In most developed and many developing nations, using digital technology for computing, communication and entertainment has become a way of life. As businesses expand to meet the needs of such consumers, so does the infrastructure that processes, exchanges and stores all the associated information.

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Coal's New Challenge - Technology is Crucial [PDF]

Technology has a proven track record in addressing ways to minimize coal's impact on the environment while preserving coal's place as the premier provider of low-cost energy to the American consumer.

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Building on Hydro Riches - Kiwis Set Ambitious Renewables Target [PDF]

New Zealand, like the rest of the world, faces two major energy challenges. The first is to respond to the risks of climate change by reducing the greenhouse gases caused by the production and use of energy. The second is to deliver clean, affordable energy while treating the environment responsibly.

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Asset Shoppers Target Utilities - Jump in M&A Deals [PDF]

Tight credit won't prevent utility asset sales. The expected increase in power demand coupled with the need for lots more investment in infrastructure will continue to drive domestic and foreign enterprises to seek opportunities in North America.

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North Dakota Vision - The Right Climate for Carbon Capture and Storage [PDF]

The Williston Basin is an area of significant opportunity for the demonstration and development of carbon capture and storage. It covers significant portions of North and South Dakota, Montana, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and is a deep, seismically stable sedimentary basin with multiple stacked CO2 sequestration targets including lignite deposits, oil reservoirs and saline formations.

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An Energy World in Transition - Marshaling Resources in a New Era [PDF]

Demand is growing for energy, particularly in Asia. Power companies worldwide are increasingly competing for resources to build tomorrow's power plants, power grids and new renewable power installations. In these times of unprecedented turmoil in energy the world over, EnergyBiz has contacted the World Energy Council, based in London. We asked its regional representatives to provide snapshots of the energy world in their regions. The council, formed in 1923, has members in 100 countries.

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Bridging Our Energy Future - Direct Use of Natural Gas [PDF]

The North American energy market will face continued uncertainty for the foreseeable future, and despite increases in natural gas prices, the use of natural gas is expected to increase significantly in response to efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

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Renewables Are Doable - Fed Study Touts Wind [PDF]

Can we create a future in which a significant fraction of America's electricity comes from a renewable domestic resource like the wind?

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ZigBee Makes Play - Competing Standards For Future Meter Market [PDF]

On the drawing board in many energy companies' board rooms are plans to automate energy delivery from source to destination.

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Smarter Forecasting - Improving Wind's Predictability [PDF]

Matching wind power's unpredictability with customer electricity demands has always been a challenge. But the issue is getting much more attention today.

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Think Small - Growing Appeal of Small Generators [PDF]

Worldwide interest in taking distributed generation to a new level and combining it with green technology into what some are calling micro-generation is growing.

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New Approaches to Energy - The Beauty of Pumped Storage [PDF]

Global warming is a fact. The world's scientists and politicians have recognized it as the biggest issue of the 21st century, and man-made greenhouse gases such as CO2 have been pinpointed as the main factor responsible.

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Metrics [PDF]

• Capacity Additions Continue to Slide
• Increase in Rate Increases
• Regulators Embrace Changes
• Let There Be Light

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Ready for a Revolution - Nobuo Tanaka Says Massive Energy Spend Looms [PDF]

Nobuo Tanaka took the stage at a huge energy conference in Washington recently and proclaimed, "We need a new energy revolution." But while the world desperately needs to spend more on energy research and development, the executive director of the International Energy Agency said, spending has actually declined of late.

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Reflections on Regulation [PDF]

Editor's Note: Ohio utility regulator Don Mason sent out an e-mail upon announcing his retirement. In part it read: "Time has gone by so quickly since I have been a pub lic servant since the day after I stepped off the wrestling mats in 1979 as an NCAA All American and began working as an intern for the city of Zanesville, Ohio.

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The Appeal of Natural Gas [PDF]

As my tenure as the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Gas Committee chairman was drawing to its conclusion last fall, I began to realize that a lot of the debate on climate policy was not headed in the most opportune direction.

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