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Top Stories (March 19)

ELECTRICAL EMERGENCY ESCALATES TO STAGE THREE; ROTATING OUTAGES UNDERWAY; 
MORE THAN A THIRD OF THE GENERATION CONNECTED TO THE ISO GRID IS OFF-LINE
Immediate rotating blackouts have been ordered after operating reserves the 
California Independent Systems Operator (California ISO) depends on to 
maintain power grid reliability dropped dramatically.
http://199.97.97.163/IMDS%PMANAT0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/comtex/2
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BUSH SOUNDS ENERGY ALARM
As new blackouts rolled across California again today, the White House 
sounded the alarms about an energy crisis that will take some time to solve.
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2001/03/19/eng-abcnews/eng-abcnews_191057_158_430506056175

RELIANT ENERGY ANNOUNCES CLEAN-COAL POWER PLANT IN PENNSYLVANIA
Reliant Energy Seward LLC, an unregulated unit of Reliant Energy's Wholesale 
Group, today announced it is planning to build a power generation plant in 
western Pennsylvania using the latest clean-coal technology.
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001/03/19/pr/0000-2319-tx-pa-reliant-energy

UTILITIES TO UNVEIL PLANS FOR NEW US NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
One or more U.S. utilities will soon seek federal regulatory approval for 
locations where new nuclear power plants could be built, the Nuclear Energy 
Institute's top executive said Monday.
http://199.97.97.79/IMDS%PMADJN0%read%/home/content/users/imds/feeds/djn/2001/
03/19/eng-djn/eng-djn_210052_97_0574663719162

PENNSYLVANIA POWERS UP NEW WIND FARM
The wind is blowing wealth and power across Pennsylvania. Representatives of 
a consortium of private companies, nonprofit organizations and public 
agencies have confirmed plans to build a new 15-megawatt wind farm in Fayette 
County.
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/03/19/eng-enn/eng-enn_112212_50_5300153791904

FPL, ENTERGY LATEST IN SERIES OF TROUBLED UTILITY DEALS
The merger between FPL Group Inc. and Entergy Corp. is the latest utility 
deal to find itself in trouble.
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Utils To Unveil Plans For New US Nuclear Pwr Plants- Exec

WHITE HOUSE WATCH: Bush On Choppy Foreign-Policy Waters

Electricity Consumers Better Off Under Regulation: Report

US Attorney In Czech Republic To Fight Nuclear Plant

FPL, Entergy -2: Entergy Shrs Trading Above Deal Premium

FPL, Entergy -3: Personnel Issues May Be Snagging Deal

Wessex Water Services Sr Unsec Assigned BBB+ By S&P

PRESS RELEASE: S&P Rates Wessex Water Services Sr Unsec

FPL, Entergy Latest In Series Of Troubled Utility Deals

Kinder Morgan Energy, Duke Energy Merchants In Pact

US Consortium Among Bidders For Degussa's DMC2 -Source

Cantabrico/Bd/RWE Bid -3: Gridlock Over Bids Still Exists

US WEATHER:Heavy Rain In South;Mostly Clear In Northeast

Edison Intl: Paid $8 Mln On SoCalEd 1st Mortgage Bonds

Cantabrico/Bd/RWE Bid -2: Says Bid Adequate >E.HIC

Cantabrico Bd Approves RWE EUR26 Per Shr Offer >E.HIC

FPL, Entergy/Issues -2: Plan No Further Comment>FPL ETR

FPL, Entergy Will Meet To Address Issues >ETR FPL

FPL, Entergy Issues Governance Structure/Value-Related

FPL, Entergy Say Issues Arise In Pending Merger >ETR

Indonesia Pertamina/Geothermal -3:Elec Prices Stem Invest

Indonesia Pertamina/Geothermal-2:$100M More Invest Sought

Indonesia Pertamina In Talks For W Java Geothermal Stake

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Power Wholesaler Mvm Signs Preliminary Retrofit Agreement with Tractebel's 
Dunamenti Plant

Carbon Energy Corporation Announces Results Of Canadian

Bush Sounds Energy Alarm

Pke Southern Energy Group Seeks To Grow by Buying Into Mines, Energy & 
Heating Plants

Rolling Blackouts Hit Calif. as ISO Calls Stage 3 Power Alert

HUD Earmarks $105m for Utility Bills

Energy Update/Los Angeles Department of Water And Power Issues Daily Energy 
Update for Monday, March 19

Orion Will Shine With Energy Deregulation

As of 1:30 P.M. PST - State Electric Command Center Orders Temporary, 
Statewide Power Outages

Fitch Dwngr Aye, Potomac Ed, & Monongahela: Aff West Penn Power, Agc

Electrical Emergency Escalates to Stage Three; Rotating Outages Underway; 
More Than A Third of The Generation Connected to The ISO Grid Is Off-Line

Advanced Energy to Present at Seminvest Conference

Cal-ISO Directs SCE to Reduce Electrical Demand; Utility Begins Controlled 
Rotating Outage Program

Yukon's Energy Info Centre Opens

Pennsylvania Gov. Ridge to Address Energy Policy in D.C.

U.S.' Abraham -- 2 (Bush administration backs FERC on Calif. power refunds)

Repeats: Energy Volume And Open Interest Totals-Mar 19

Top Energy Summaries - Monday, March 19, 2001 - 2:17 PM

Planalytics Releases New Version of Weathernomics Gas Buyer Tool for 
Purchasing And Hedging Natural Gas

Media Advisory - Renewable Energy Announcement Tuesday, March 20

Top Energy Summaries - Monday, March 19, 2001 - 12:26 PM

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners Enters Into Long-Term Transmix Agreement with 
Duke Energy Merchants

Pennsylvania Powers Up New Wind Farm

Demarco Energy Systems Signs Master Contracting Agreement with Leading 
National Energy Service Company

Bush Administration Announces Emergency Funds to Help Pay Skyrocketing 
Utility Bills for Public Housing Residents

Duke Energy Completes Successful Equity Offerings

World Commerce Online Inc: General Electric CO - World Commerce And GE Global 
Exchange Announce Agreement - for Retail E-Commerce Solutions

Power Efficiency Corp - How a Small Company in Michigan Can Boost 
California's Power - Supplies

Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. Selects Ixiasoft Xml Content Server to Power 
Intranet for Storage And Retrieval of Key Technical DocumentsShift from 
Mainframe Centric System to Faster Xml Enabled Database Server Will Enable 
Utility to Provide Better Document Structure, Savings And Faster Access to Es

Emerson Motors Develops Traction Drive Motor for Fuel Cell-Powered Electric 
Vehicles

Hydro Energi Signs Energy Management Agreement with Fesil

Inforte to Implement Ariba's Value Chain Management Solution at Rochester Gas 
& Electric

Magin Energy Inc - Update

Uspowersolutions (R) Selected by Green Mountain Energy Company to Provide EDI 
Transaction Management Services Nationwide

Top Energy Summaries - Monday, March 19, 2001 - 9:29 Am

Massey Energy Company Subsidiary to Build, Operate Eastman Chemical Coal 
Handling Facility

Management`S Discussions: 10-K, Puget Energy Inc 2 of 2

Management`S Discussions: 10-K, Puget Energy Inc 1 of 2

American Power Conversion And Vectren Corporation Partner to Increase Systems 
Availability for Residential And Commercial Electricity Customers

Platts Launches New Daily Service Covering Both Natural Gas And Power Markets 
in USIncludes Energy Industry's Most Comprehensive Forward Price Assessments

Peco II Announces New 163 Power System

Management`S Discussions: 10-K, Orion Power Holdings Inc 2 of 2

Management`S Discussions: 10-K, Orion Power Holdings Inc 1 of 2

Management`S Discussions: 10-K, Puget Sound Energy Inc 2 of 2

Management`S Discussions: 10-K, Puget Sound Energy Inc 1 of 2

Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Begins Refueling Outage on Unit 2 Reactor

Energy Supply Problems Forcing Consumers to Look for Alternative Sources of 
Emergency Power

Alliant Energy Selects Quest Software's Vista Plus(TM) to Enable 
Enterprise-Wide Access to Business-Critical Information

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Swift Energy Announces Third Successful Well Test at Its Rimu Discovery in 
New Zealand

Europan Energy To Loan $130 Mln for New Rostov Power Station

Electricite De France Aims for 15% of Polish Energy Generation and 
Distribution Market

Czech National Power Utility, US Lawyer Clash Over Visit to Nuclear Plant

China Awards Liquefied Natural Gas Project to British Petroleum

Mitsubishi Electric, Koyo Seiko To Launch Joint Venture in Czech Republic

Serbian Energy Minister in Croatia

Enlightened Energy

Paranapanema Weighs Up Hydro Options - Brazil

U.S. District Court Confirms a Special Master for U.S. Energy Corp. And 
Crested Corp. in The Accounting of Nukem Contracts

Peru: Aguaytia Energy to Split Assets, Seeks Competitiveness

GE Supplying Long-Term Services for Gas Turbines at Power Plant on Margarita 
Island, Venezuela

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Guangdong Electric Power Development Posts Profits of Usd 117.18 Mln, Up 
16.26% from 1999

Omani Government Signs Major Agreements with Dhofar Power Company for Salalah 
Power System Privatization

Power Unit #2 of Yuzhnoukrainsk Npp Put Back On Stream

H Power Residential Fuel Cell Unit Being Field Tested in Finland by Fortum, 
Oy, A Major International Energy CompanyNet Metered System Will Supply 
Electricity And Heat for Test House And Sell Surplus Electricity to Local 
Electric Utility

Brazil: Light to Increase Stake in Thermoelectric Power Plant

Brazil: EDP to Build Hydroelectric And Thermal Power Plants

Chile: Angelini Withdraws from Electric Utility Sector

Brazil: Aneel to Avoid Energy Waste

Ukrainian Nuclear Generating Set Reconnected to Energy Grid

Russia To Commission Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in 2003

Koreas: South Agency Reports North Power Plant "Environmental Threat"

Talks on Joint Development of Mongolian Coal Deposit

Belgium: EC-funded Project Develops Wireless Electric Car Charger

Toyota to Buy Power from Nippon Steel for 2 Tokyo Buildings

World Bank Procurement - China, Power

Adb Technical - Kazakhstan, Energy

Japan Ministry Mulls Cutting Home Power Use with It Systems

Marubeni to Rehabilitate Philippines Tiwi Geothermal Plant

Hyundai Releases Korea's First Fuel Cell Vehicle

S Korea Debuts Internet Services Via Power Cables

Vietnam: BP Makes Progress on Power Plant; Statoil Backs Out

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-Two Electricity Companies Deny Allegations of Price Manipulation

Portland, Ore.-Based Utility Customers Likely to See Rate Increase

Bush Administration Rejects Washington Governor's Plea for Energy Price Caps

California Governor Outlines Plan to Research Energy Solutions

Energy Is Easy to Save, Environmentalists Say

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UPDATE 3-Blackouts hit Calif. as power crisis deepens

FACTBOX-How California implements rolling blackouts

UPDATE 2-Blackouts hit Calif. as power crisis deepens

Massey Energy to build, operate Eastman coal facility

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