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The merchant energy sector in the U.S. is facing business and financial problems due to billions of dollars of investment in unregulated generation and energy trading. Investors will definitely not be providing capital for energy companies in view of the risks with electricity regulatory reform introducing competition.

The article contains a ranking of the top 250 energy companies by asset worth, revenues, profits and return on invested capital. The top company for the ranking was Exxon Mobil Corp.

While energy considerations are not the only issue at stake in U.S. policy towards Cuba, they are an important aspect that is generally ignored. At present, economic sanctions against Cuba [...]

Although America is still one of the leading producers of natural gas and crude oil, it is second to none in consumption. As a result, America spends billions of dollars [...]

The outstanding efficiency of Finland's power production resources is evident in its international ranking as the world's highest share of cogeneration and in its nuclear power best operation record. The Finnish system's success is attributed to the country's qualified long-term planning, skillful operation and plant maintenance which have minimized power production costs and carbon dioxide emissions.

The energy efficiency and productivity impacts of embodied and unembodied technological developments is analysed using data from the different industries of the US, Canada and France. Six models, exhibiting alternatives of factor augmenting technical progress, for embodied and unembodied change are tested for the three countries and it is shown that the specification parameters are imprecisely estimated. It is also found out that embodied technical progress accounted for a very small portion of the total estimated technical progress in the three countries from 1965 to 1987.

Onsite power generation (OPG) and distributed generation (DG) can help resolve a large number of power issues. Unfortunately for OPG and DG proponents, many utilities, energy users, and other potential [...]

Energy is available in various forms, the "lowest" being heat and the "highest" electricity. It can be dug or pumped out of the earth, derived directly and indirectly from the […]

A deregulated market is desirable to members of Germany's VIK, which represents about 90% of industrial electricity usage in the country. German firms urgently need a liberal electric market as soon as possible. Transmission fees are pivotal to energy market reform and continue to be a major issue in discussions pertaining to proposed new energy laws. If the matter of transmission fees are resolved adequately, independent power producers will truly be able to enter the German market and true competition in Germany's energy market will become a reality., In the proposed new energy law, controversial discussions continue on the key element of the reforms - the regulations concerning the transmission of electricity and especially the appropriate levels of [...]

Liberalization of Germany's electricity market is imminent with European Union guidelines on members' electricity markets going into effect and energy reform laws about to be passed into law. De-regulation of the German electricity market should not result in healthy competition, increased efficiency and flexibility of power providers but also, and especially, lower power rates for customers., Until now, electricity generation in Germany has been characterised by separated generation areas with customers generally able to buy electricity from a single supplier. The introduction of competition within the [...]

Sand control device prevents production of plugging, erosive sands while allowing smooth production without excessive pressure drop. SAND CONTROL TECHNOLOGY Tucker Lake SAGD liner design, fabrication and installation evaluation Sand-control [...]

by Simon Jones Dutch competition watchdog NMa has raided offices belonging to the country's four leading power utilities as part of an inquiry into alleged price fixing. The authority took [...]

Credit rating agencies took opposing views on the prospects for Midlands Electricity parent company Avon Energy Partners after the completion of its [pounds sterling]1.1 billion acquisition by Powergen this week. [...]

A measured approach to acquisitions was key to home services giant Centrica being the 'clear winner' in terms of value, according to an analysis of European utility value by Deloitte [...]

We did it to ourselves. Much of the United States is without power, and it appears we have no one to blame but us, as Pogo said many years ago. [...]

Byline: Barry B. Burr BP PLC, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Alcoa Inc. and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. score highest in addressing financial risk posed by climate change issues, [...]

Energy companies now have to operate in a highly competitive marketplace that is strikingly different from the old monopoly world. The extensive foreign ownership of the UK's energy businesses is [...]

by Zo Grainge Despite the setback from the suspension of its TXU Europe contract at a potential cost of pound sterling175 million, Scottish and Southern Energy's (SSE's) low-cost and growing [...]

Two rating agencies issued gloomy predictions for the banking industry on Wednesday. Standard & Poor's Corp. warned that loans to leveraged energy companies are likely to be the next problem [...]

In its first listing on a Dow Jones utility industry survey, Entergy Corp. has been rated fifth out of 10 top utilities. Jim Mutch, Entergy vice president of environmental support, [...]

Credit rating agency Moody's has warned that financial risk in the UK water industry is set to increase during 2002 as more companies restructure as debt-financed entities. Moody's said the [...]

Europe's best-performing companies - voted by the user Europe's best-performing companies - voted by the user Earlier this year, in a survey of more than 1,200 major energy users in [...]

Pinnacle West Capital Corp. recently was named to CMP Media's Information Week 500, a listing of the largest and most innovative users of information technology. Pinnacle West, parent company to [...]

* Pinnacle West Capital Corp., Phoenix, was named to CMP Media's Information Week 500, a listing of the largest and most innovative users of information technology. Pinnacle West, parent company [...]

Energy risk management was born during the deregulation of natural gas and power over the last decade. At the same time, there was a general mismanagement of the balance between [...]

Increased utility costs and higher demand for energy are changing the way buildings are constructed and retrofitted. This should be a wake-up call for design professionals to return to the [...]

As the world's fourth-largest energy importer -- third in oil and second in coal and LNG -- South Korea is an important player in world energy markets. Yet its domestic [...]

Rising utility prices are driving more people to seek energy options California blackouts, Alberta's energy deregulation woes and wide-spread fears over Ontario's push to an open market are persuading more [...]

We've all had our fun with the news from California lately. When it comes to growth and prosperity, those same states left in the dust by California over the last [...]

Available, affordable energy is fast becoming the gold standard of the New Economy. In assessing relocation options you'll want to identify local factors with potential to destabilize power availability, dependability [...]

Pinnacle West Capital Corp.'s power generation subsidiary, Pinnacle West Energy Corp., received a BBB+ rating on its senior unsecured debt from New York rating agency Fitch. PWEC, which broke ground [...]