One of the key features of the highly touted 2005 Energy Policy Act was a large pool of loan guarantees designed to jump-start a renaissance in nuclear power in the…
Power
Monthly Issue | April 27, 2009
Is the venerable periodic employee performance review really a useful management tool? Management sciences guru Sam Culbert doesn’t think so. “I see nothing constructive about an annual pay and performance…
Can companies tweak their supply chain operations to produce lower carbon dioxide emissions? Is that desirable? A recent study by the consulting company Accenture found that only 10% of the…
The $410 billion catchall government spending bill that Congress passed and president Obama signed last month includes more than $98 million in project earmarks for the U.S. Department of Energy,…
It’s not a pleasant time to be an electric utility regulator, as a daylong conference in March at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in Washington demonstrated. Regulators at the…
Folks in the electric business are talking—a lot—about the “smart grid.” In February 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing…
Just about all the experts agree that Three Mile Island (TMI) was not a serious accident. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t a serious screw-up. Things went wrong that should never…
For the past 25 years, virtually anyone who opposed the construction of some kind of major energy facility—such as an oil or gas storage tank, electrical transmission line, power plant,…
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…