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Constellation Energy Releases Statement Regarding the Company's Proposed Nuclear Joint Venture with EDF
BALTIMORE, Nov 02, 2009 -- BUSINESS WIRE - Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) today released the following statement regarding Friday's decision by the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) to approve with conditions the proposed nuclear joint venture between Constellation Energy and EDF. More...
PPL Completes Sale of Hydroelectric Assets in Maine
ALLENTOWN, Pa., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - PPL Corporation announced Monday (11/2) that its PPL Maine subsidiary has completed the sale of the majority of PPL Maine's hydroelectric generation business to Black Bear Hydro Partners, LLC, an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, for approximately $81 million. More...
Entergy Unit and Acadia Power Partners Reach Agreement for Purchase of Acadia Unit 2
NEW ORLEANS, Oct 30, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall - Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) announced that its subsidiary, Entergy Louisiana, LLC (ELL), has signed a Purchase and Sale Agreement (PSA) to acquire Unit 2 of the Acadia Energy Center, a 580-megawatt generating unit located near Eunice, Louisiana, from Acadia Power Partners, LLC (APP), an independent power producer. More...
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AREVA T&D acquires power transformer manufacturer Megatran Electric Ltd. and secures supply agreement with Hydro-Quebec
AREVA T&D - AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) division and the shareholders of Megatran Electric Ltd today announced that they have signed an agreement for AREVA T&D to acquire Megatran, the Canadian-based power transformer manufacturer. more...
POWER Engineers Acquires GIS Asset Management Firm
POWER Engineers, Inc. - POWER Engineers has acquired VELOCITIE Integration, a leading GIS services firm experienced in a wide range of platform-independent solutions. more...
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Lots of work to do on smart grid; it’s expensive and some things haven’t yet been invented.

Blogger Photo By Warren Causey - The “smart grid” or “Intelligent Utility”, which is receiving a tremendous amount of press and promotion from the federal government more...

One License at a Time

Blogger Photo By Bill Opalka - It’s been a busy few weeks at American Superconductor, the Devens, Massachusetts-based manufacturer of electric power systems. Busier still might more...

Utility speed dating

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - I spent Monday afternoon utility speed dating at the Edison Electric Institute’s CFO conference in Hollywood, Florida, and I thoroughly more...

Dodging a bullet the hard way

Blogger Photo By Warren Causey - It has been a busy week or so, with the DOE releasing ARRA “smart grid” awards on last Tuesday and more...

The First Step on a Journey of a Million Miles

Blogger Photo By Bart Thielbar - With much anticipation and great fanfare, President Obama and the Department of Energy (DOE) announced $3.4 billion of stimulus funding more...
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Acquire the Customers, Not the Integration Problems

By Les Duncan
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Data Fusion for Timely ROI Given a Mixed Inventory of Operations Oriented Applications

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Shopping the spring asset sales

By Jennifer Zajac
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Pace of Asset Sales Likely to Continue
Mergers amongst utilities expected to pick up in '06

By Jennifer Zajac
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