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Business 2005 P24
Bottom Line Impact announces new customer win with largest municipal electric utility in South Carolina
Bottom Line Impact, a value-added service company focusing on write-off reductions for the utility industry, recently announced its customer win of the City of Orangeburg, SC, Department of Public Utilities (DPU), a city owned utility that has served Orangeburg area families and businesses for over 100 years.
ABB announces price increase for transformers
ABB, a power and automation technology group, announced its Power Technologies division is to increase the average price of its transformers by up to ten percent immediately, following a sharp increase in raw material prices since the start of 2005.
Alliant Energy announces workforce reduction
Alliant Energy Corp. announced it will begin a process to reduce the number of employees in corporate and operations support positions. Although a final impact will not be known until the process is completed, the company expects that approximately 200 positions will be eliminated.
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company to acquire PacifiCorp from Scottish Power
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company has reached a definitive agreement with ScottishPower to acquire its subsidiary, PacifiCorp, and create an energy holding company serving approximately 3 million electric and natural gas customers in 10 contiguous states and 6.6 million customers worldwide.
NRC ends license for Trojan nuclear power plant, releases site for unrestricted use
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted the request of Portland General Electric (PGE) to terminate its license for the Trojan nuclear power plant, which closed permanently in November 1992, and has released for unrestricted use the area where the plant formerly operated. The facility was located in Columbia County, Ore., about 42 miles north of Portland.
Westar Energy, FERC reach settlement
Westar Energy, Inc. and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission have reached a settlement regarding FERC's investigation into energy trades made in 2002 involving Cleco Corp., information sharing between the Westar's transmission and wholesale functions and certain postings regarding a business manager's activities and other matters on Westar's OASIS website, which contains transmission information.
Toronto Hydro pilots Elster Electricity's EnergyAxis® System with two-way, smart metering communications
Elster Electricity, LLC, a provider of metering solutions worldwide, announces that Toronto Hydro, the largest municipal utility in Canada, is piloting the EnergyAxis® System. The EnergyAxis System is a metering automation system that utilizes a 900 MHz controlled mesh network with Elster's single-phase electronic REX® meters and A3 ALPHA® meter collectors.
Minnesota Power expands deployment of Hunt Technologies AMR system
Minnesota Power, an investor-owned utility based in Duluth, MN, is expanding its deployment of the TS1 Turtle® System, a power line carrier-based automatic meter reading (AMR) system from Hunt Technologies.
Westar Energy, FERC reach settlement
Westar Energy, Inc. and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission have reached a settlement regarding FERC's investigation into energy trades made in 2002 involving Cleco Corp.
New York's Public Utility Commission ties reliability to competition and lower prices
Despite opposition from giant utility monopolies fighting to maintain market share, Chairman Flynn approved one of the most progressive combinations of public policies in recent memory, Consumers can lock in a guaranteed 7% savings immediately and then shop for any supplier they want or go back to the utility if they are dissatisfied.
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