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POWER Magazine for July 18, 2012

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In This Issue

  • Uranium and Nuclear Fuel: No Bottlenecks Ahead

    In addition to low prices for coal and natural gas, prices for uranium oxide are also gently falling. New supplies of uranium and enriched fuel should keep nuclear fuel prices stable for years to come.

  • Cyber Threats to SCADA Systems Are Real

    Some of the ripest targets for cyber soldiers and techno-terrorists are bland, non-descript boxes sitting inside electric utility generating, transmission, and distribution systems, controlling many of the operations of the utilities. The computer technology, once state-of-the-art, is decades old, and that’s part of the problem.

  • PwC: Big Demand Meets Tight Money in Power’s Future

    As electric power utilities look ahead, they see the need for major financial investments, but also view a more difficult world in which to raise the needed funds for financing generation and transmission. That’s the conclusion of the 12th annual survey of global power and utility firms by PwC.

  • Securitizing Renewable Energy Loans

    Renewable energy sources have increasingly become a focal point of U.S. regulatory and financial institutions as well as trade associations and legislatures. One area of particular interest is programs that have been established by local and state governments to encourage homeowners to become more energy efficient through the use of Property Assessed Clean Energy (“PACE”) loans.

  • The Leadership Dilemma

    When did the term “management” change from a corporate organizational level to be achieved to a leadership model that must be mastered?

  • A Call for Visionary Leadership in Energy

    Along with the global economy, there are significant signs indicating how radically the energy business has changed in the past few years.

  • Putting Clean Tech on a Path to Subsidy Independence

    Is the clean energy technology sector doomed because federal spending is sharply dropping?

  • Workplace Drama: Why Behavioral Change Does Not Work

    Do you communicate to manipulate or to change behavior?

  • Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and Blather

    We are hot and heavy into election season, and there is a lot of buzz about “jobs.” We hear about job-killing regulations (mostly from Republicans) and the wonders of green jobs (mostly from Democrats). All this, of course, is aimed at tying favored policy options to something the average voter can understand, the need for […]

  • TREND: U.S., Energy Exporter

    The U.S. has been blessed with enormous quantities of natural resources yet has long been a net energy importer. The shift from global purchaser to global supplier of fossil fuels is accelerating.