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May 23 - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - The ball is in the City Council's court after Lubbock's Electric Utility Board on Tuesday opted to recommend the council increase electricity rates as soon as July 1. More...
Area utilities face possible 30% rate hike
May 23 - Jon Chavez The Blade, Toledo, Ohio - With electric rates currently at competitively lower prices, several municipal utilities in northwest Ohio are locked into agreements to buy power for the next three decades from a new plant in Illinois whose cost overruns could drive its power delivery rates up by as much as 30 percent. More...
Exelon Receives Notification of Unsolicited Mini-tender Offer by TRC Capital Corporation
CHICAGO, May 23, 2012 -- BUSINESS WIRE - Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) has received notification of an unsolicited mini-tender offer by TRC Capital Corporation ("TRC") to purchase up to 3 million shares of Exelon common stock, or approximately 0.35 percent of the company's outstanding common stock, at a price of $36.55 per share. More...
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Two-year deal for discounted electricity approved
May 23 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Patrick Wade The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. - Most Champaign residents will be paying 4.15 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity by the end of this summer -- that's about 33 percent less than what they would have paid without a program that pools residents into one energy account. More...
Southern Company elects E. Jenner Wood III to board of directors
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Securing AMI at BC Hydro: The Benefits of a Multi-Layered Security Architecture

 Thursday May 31, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

Cyber security is one of the top concerns for utilities that are implementing a smart grid network solution. Consumer privacy and data integrity are critical. The good news is that industry leaders have established proven processes and procedures to mitigate more...

Smart Grid Analytics: All That Remains to be Ready is You

 Tuesday Jun 12, 2012 - 1:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

Join us for a live smart grid analytics discussing real life case studies for how analytics can change the speed of business today, allowing users to unleash their creativity and focus on what matters: data-driven insights that benefit the business. more...

New Challenges for Operating the Utility Enterprise

 Thursday Jun 21, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

Uncertainty haunts the United States utility industry: Natural-gas prices have plummeted, environmental regulations are throttling coal-fired power, and nuclear power's viability is being questioned in the wake of the Japanese nuclear disaster and the termination of the Yucca Mountain nuclear more...
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In the Head of Energy Secretary Chu

By Ferdinand E. Banks
As most readers of this short paper probably know, Dr. Steven Chu is the energy secretary of the United States, a physicist, and a Nobel Laureate. Discovery Magazine, in its latest issue (2011), selected what more...
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Past, present, future

By Duncan Sinclair
The credit crisis that has dominated the international agenda for the last year has been largely driven by systemic shocks to global financial markets, yet one of the biggest shocks to individual financial institutions came more...
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From Shovel Ready Projects to Sustainable Partnerships

By Roger Feldman
The most important of all the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the "Stimulus Act" or "ARRA") initiatives could be the reformulation of the DoE Renewable Energy Loan Guarantee Program. This could be true more...
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The American (Energy) Patient

By Ferdinand E. Banks
I would like to begin by stating that while the subject of energy economics has still not attained its 'critical mass' where book-length literature is concerned, there are an increasing number of short, non-technical papers more...
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Kyoto and the Stern Review of Climate Change

By Ferdinand E. Banks
In preparing the new printing of my energy economics textbook, several widely publicized topics were deliberately omitted. One of these was the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. On several occasions I heard more...
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