While pundits opine that the U.S. economy is in recovery, that doesn’t show up in the world of coal-fired electric power plants (perhaps lagging economic indicators). To wit: South Carolina…
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Monthly Issue | November 2, 2009
Companies that offer health insurance plans to their employees—and that covers most power companies—need to focus on the current congressional debates about national health insurance plans and on the potential…
Do your employees tweet? Do they blog? Do they post to Facebook or LinkedIn or YouTube? Do you even understand these questions? Does your organization have a policy regarding social…
Buzzwords, jargon, and technical language are inevitable features of any discipline, and they abound in the world of electric power generation and distribution. Now the “smart grid” has introduced a…
In the last full week of September, a Dickensian moment occurred: the best of times and the worst of times, simultaneously. Readers can conclude which were the best and which…
Just 25 years ago business basically stopped at 5:00 p.m. The receptionist went home and the office phones were turned off. If your need was urgent, you may have left…
Robert A. (Bobby) Hefner III, the doyen of deep gas in the 1980s, is back on the energy policy scene in a big way. That’s the only way Hefner has…
In a potentially troublesome development for the Obama administration and the nuclear industry, a majority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in late September declined to formally declare that the…
For months, we’ve been hearing an odd refrain from the Democrats who are pushing hardest for the Waxman-Markey climate bill. They are determined, it seems, not only to have such…
“The book is Mastering the Art of French Cooking—not How To or Made Easy or For Dummies. Mastering the Art. In other words, cooking that omelet is part of a…