http://www.managingpowermag.com Managing POWER en-us 2012 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 7:43:03 EST Gas turbines are expensive. Although peaking units aren't as costly as baseload units, letting them sit idle is still a waste. Yet that is what peaking units spend nearly all their time doing. Some operators only fire up their units a few days a year. That is like putting money in the bank and collecting interest a few hours at a time, rather than all year round. That strategy only works when the payback is extremely high for those short periods.... http://www.managingpowermag.com/govenment_and_regulatory/361.html Sun, 1 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST As less is heard about the promise of new nuclear reactors in the U.S., more is being heard about the problems of the geriatric atomic set.... http://www.managingpowermag.com/govenment_and_regulatory/347.html Tue, 1 Nov 2011 0:00:00 EDT What's on the agenda for the utility industry today and into the future? Platts and Capgemini asked the industry leadership in their latest survey. The answers revolve around regulation, finance, and human resources.... http://www.managingpowermag.com/govenment_and_regulatory/336.html Thu, 1 Sep 2011 0:00:00 EDT Uncertainty about China's role in world trade and its current monopoly over critical rare earth minerals continues to roil supply chains in energy technology markets. Will the World Trade Organization bring China into the fold, or will China ignore the international forum that it lobbied hard to join several years ago?... http://www.managingpowermag.com/govenment_and_regulatory/337.html Thu, 1 Sep 2011 0:00:00 EDT Both the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and the Chernobyl catastrophe prompted worldwide retreats away from nuclear electric generating technologies. Despite brave rhetoric from nuclear supporters around the world, a number of countries with a large number of nuclear plants are having second thoughts about the future of nuclear power.... http://www.managingpowermag.com/govenment_and_regulatory/325.html Fri, 1 Jul 2011 0:00:00 EDT How easy is it to hack a generator's SCADA system? It's so easy it scares the heck out of the guy who used to run network security for the Bonneville Power Administration. It's so easy he can't tell us any details, for security reasons. That's why we should all be scared.... http://www.managingpowermag.com/govenment_and_regulatory/326.html Fri, 1 Jul 2011 0:00:00 EDT The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is starting to sort out the often mysterious and vexing issues surrounding reliability penalties as the federal agency and the North American Electric Reliability Corp. work through their evolving relationship. The case involves an outage at the Turlock Irrigation District in California.... http://www.managingpowermag.com/govenment_and_regulatory/327.html Fri, 1 Jul 2011 0:00:00 EDT For many energy analysts and policy makers, efficiency is the Holy Grail, the universal solvent, the way to effortlessly reconcile supply and demand while simultaneously serving the needs of the environment. Don't build new power plants, says policy guru Amory Lovins; gather "negawatts" instead. President Obama says that Americans "can save as much as 30% of our current energy usage without changing our quality of life."... http://www.managingpowermag.com/govenment_and_regulatory/315.html Sun, 1 May 2011 0:00:00 EDT U.S. Supreme Court rulings in two recent cases further advance the rights of employees in disputes with employers, continuing a long-term trend in federal law on employment discrimination.... http://www.managingpowermag.com/govenment_and_regulatory/316.html Sun, 1 May 2011 0:00:00 EDT The devastation in Japan has focused new attention on supply chain issues and the impact of the partial collapse of that country's manufacturing infrastructure on both Japanese imports and exports.... http://www.managingpowermag.com/govenment_and_regulatory/318.html Sun, 1 May 2011 0:00:00 EDT