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 September 14, 2007
The nation's largest federally-owned utility plans to go on a hiring binge. The Tennessee Valley Authority says that it likely needs to bring on thousands of employees to construct and operate a slew of nuclear power plants that may get built in the Southeast.
The utility workforce is graying. That's no secret. But, the matter is particularly acute in the nuclear sector where half of the schools that train everyone from engineers to plant operators have dropped by the wayside over the last 25 years. Now, of course, nuclear power is reemerging as a viable energy source. Nothing is certain. But, if the public fully embraces the concept, the people that run the facilities won't just materialize out of thin air. |
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Posted by webmaster on Friday, September 14, 2007 @ 09:31:56 EDT (272 reads)(Read More... | 7494 bytes more | Score: 0) |
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| Investigating Hedge Funds |
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September 12, 2007
First it was Enron. Then it was Amaranth Advisors, a hedge fund that collapsed. The changing face of energy trading has left regulators scurrying to catch up. The questions now before U.S. lawmakers are to what extent big traders move markets and the means by which such outfits should be monitored.
Traders merely match buyers and sellers and profit those transactions. It's a risky business, with many traditional energy outfits having shed their marketing and trading ventures so that they could focus on their core strengths. When they vacated the market, the investment banks then filled the void. Hedge funds also emerged, which are essentially unregulated mutual funds comprised of sophisticated investors. |
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Posted by webmaster on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 @ 10:38:58 EDT (350 reads)(Read More... | 7380 bytes more | Score: 0) |
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September 10, 2007
Lobbyists are amassing on Capitol Hill. Energy legislation is pending. It's not just any bill. It's one that will touch every dimension of the sector from the greenies to the fossil fuel factions to the nuclear power sector.
High stakes are involved and the people - including utilities -- have the constitutional right to petition their government. But, politics is the art of compromise and the crafting of public policy should therefore be an inclusive effort. Republicans hold the Executive Branch while the Democrats control the Legislative Brach - a situation that necessitates the two sides meet in the middle if any comprehensive package is going to pass. |
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Posted by webmaster on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 @ 09:53:44 EDT (300 reads)(Read More... | 6921 bytes more | Score: 0) |
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| Encore Energy Systems: Order Book At $225 Million |
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Posted on 9/4/2007 6:48:17 AM
Brighton-based Encore Energy Systems Inc. (OTC: ENCS) Tuesday announced that its current order book exceeds $225 million.
Encore offers the patented DeMarco Energy Miser grey-water geothermal power system that its figures show is 30 to 70 percent more efficient than other methods for heating and air conditioning.
The company said that sales pipeline includes "all clients that have expressed direct interest or firm commitments and to whom we reasonably expect to deliver solutions over the next 12 to 18 months." The figure includes only United States customers. |
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Posted by webmaster on Monday, September 10, 2007 @ 11:41:08 EDT (272 reads)(Read More... | 1799 bytes more | Score: 0) |
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| Earth Shattering New Proposals |
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Critics are blasting the Bush administration over a proposed regulation to protect a contentious form of mining. It is a clear attempt to sidestep current environmental laws, they say, and all to allow coal developers to sheer off mountaintops in an effort to get at the underlying coal seams.
Environmental groups have vowed to protest any final ruling that permits such a practice to continue, much less expand. But the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining says that existing regulations were never intended to prevent mountaintop mining and the dumping of dirt and rock in nearby streams. The law, it says, serves to limit the amount of debris that can be discarded. Along those lines, the administration says that its ultimate ruling may be altered, but certainly not to a large extent. |
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Posted by webmaster on Friday, September 07, 2007 @ 08:34:10 EDT (269 reads)(Read More... | 7038 bytes more | Score: 0) |
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