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Fishermen's Energy Retains Chris Wissemann as CEO
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Feb 06, 2012 -- BUSINESS WIRE - Fishermen's Energy has retained Chris Wissemann as its new Chief Executive Officer. More...
Constellation Energy Passes on Drop in Energy Prices to New Jersey Residents With Offer to Reduce Home Electricity Rates up to 15 Percent
NEWARK, N.J. & BALTIMORE, Feb 06, 2012 -- BUSINESS WIRE - Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG), a leading national competitive electricity supplier, today announced a new offer to New Jersey residents to reduce their home electricity rates up to 15 percent compared to current rates. More...
Beacon Power Assets to be Sold to Rockland Capital
TYNGSBORO, Mass., Feb 6, 2012 -- GlobeNewswire - Rockland Capital, a leading private equity firm focused on energy-related investments, will acquire Beacon Power Corporation's 20-megawatt flywheel energy storage plant in Stephentown, New York, and most of the other assets of the Company, based on its offer made February 3, 2012, in accordance with the process negotiated with the Loan Program Office of the U.S. More...
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$6.5 Million in Monthly Savings Available to Duquesne Light Market by Switching to a New Energy Supplier
Feb 06 - MARKETWIRE - CurrentChoice.com today announced it has launched a new online marketplace for residents in the Duquesne Light market. More...
TECO has talked about buying Lakeland Electric
Feb 6 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - John Chambliss The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla. - Tampa Electric officials said Friday they have been in discussions with Publix Super Markets and other Lakeland businesses about the possibility of buying Lakeland Electric. More...
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Smart Grid: SoS "… interacting in unpredictable ways that regulators and investors cannot comprehend

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Summary: Similar to financial markets, system crashes are expected in smart grid, because they have been though to be just more...

Someone needs to follow the money--the numbers do not make sense

By Mark Wooldridge - Defense Department Studies Solar Energy Potential at Desert Bases - The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) could generate 7,000 megawatts more...

USAGAPP.com USA Green jobs now.Org Secures bids for smart grid inspections 2012 summer. Green Electr

Blogger Photo By Ron Vogt - USAGAPP.com USA Green jobs now.Org Secures bids for smart grid inspections 2012 summer. Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 million) USAGAPP.com more...

Social Media and Utilities: A Love Affair in the making?

By Chris Lewis -   To think of Social Media is to think of the fast moving and instantaneous nature of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more...

Commissioners visit New Mexico for natural gas conference The Daily Review

By Da Roberts -   TOWANDA - While Bradford County has experienced extensive gas drilling for a few years, what will it be like more...
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Harnessing Disruption - Dealing with the Threat of Technology and Competition

 Thursday Feb 16, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

This utility industry is on track to spend $1.6 trillion in the coming two decades on generation, transmission and distribution. Clearly, new ways of creating and delivering power will change the business. How does such a capital intensive industry make more...

Grid Analytics Issues, Trends, & Drivers

 Wednesday Feb 29, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

With the realization of the smart grid, the utility industry has experienced fundamental change over the last decade. Entirely new areas of expertise, value, challenge, and opportunity have emerged. Right at the heart of these opportunities and challenges is how more...
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AESP's 22nd National Conference & Expo

 Monday Feb 6, 2012 - Thursday Feb 9, 2012 - San Diego, CA - USA

Join us in San Diego for the premier energy industry conference that draws the top program managers, policy makers, marketers, evaluators, consultants and vendors in energy efficiency. Highly regarded experts in their respective fields will lead over 60 sessions that more...

3rd Annual Utility Customer Experience Management Conference

 Wednesday Feb 8, 2012 - Friday Feb 10, 2012 - San Antonio, TX - United States

The 3rd Annual Utility Customer Experience Management Conference will be a three day, industry focused event, specific to those within Customer Service, Customer Relations, Customer Communications and Credit and Collections. more...

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 Monday Mar 19, 2012 - Wednesday Mar 21, 2012 - Pentagon City, District of Columbia - USA

Join us at the 2012 EnergyBiz Leadership Forum to collaborate with your peers and get the insights you need to make the best decisions for your organization. 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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