In This Issue
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Legal & Regulatory
Nuclear Loan Guarantees Have Failed
Nuclear loan guarantees in the 2005 Energy Policy Act have proven to be a failure: not just too little, but far too late.
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HR
Let’s Trash Employee Performance Reviews
UCLA management guru Sam Culbert calls annual employee performance reviews “bogus” and not conducive to good company management. Get rid of them, he says.
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Supply Chains
The Supply Chain and the Carbon Footprint
Few companies consider carbon in their supply chain decisions, says an Accenture study. Should purchasers require carbon reductions from suppliers as part of their business model?
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Legal & Regulatory
Energy Earmarks in Spending Bill Hit $98M
North Dakota garnered most of the Department of Energy’s earmarks in March’s omnibus appropriations bill.
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Legal & Regulatory
Regulators Face Worst of Times
It’s not easy being a regulator as the nation faces several daunting energy challenges—integrating renewables, carbon constraints, reliability, and security into an elderly grid that is barely able to keep up with its current mission of moving power from generator to load.
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Smart GridIs "Smart Grid" in the Eye of the Beholder?
Congress looks at what “smart grid” means and comes up with mixed definitions. The one thing everyone agrees on: The smart grid is going to be expensive.
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Commentary
The Communications Failures Lessons of Three Mile Island
The most lasting effect the Three Mile Island nuclear accident had on me was what it taught me about crisis communications—lessons that served me well over the 25-plus years that followed and especially after the September 11 terrorist attack on the United States.
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Commentary
NIMBY or Concerned Citizen?
Opponents of locating new energy facilities near where they work and live are often painted with a broad brush as activists or called some other pejorative term. How do you differentiate the professional opponents of any new development from those who have valid reasons to stand up and be heard?
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CommentaryLet’s Stop Bailing Out on Alternative Energy
Investors are continuing to bail out of alternative energy stocks—good, promising companies such as ABB, American Superconductor, Evergreen Solar, and Itron. These companies and many like them were Wall Street darlings not that long ago. Not anymore.