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Top Stories (January 8)

US DOE EXTENDS CALIFORNIA POWER EMERGENCY ORDER THROUGH JANUARY 10
The U.S. Department of Energy has extended through Jan. 10 an emergency order 
requiring power producers to supply California's troubled electricity market.
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WHITE HOUSE TO HOLD CALIFORNIA POWER MEETING AT TREASURY TUESDAY
The Clinton administration is planning to hold a meeting between 
administration officials, regulators and California utility executives at the 
Treasury on Tuesday afternoon, a White House official said Monday.
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CHAIRMAN SUGGESTS FERC REQUIRE 'WEST-WIDE RTO' BE FORMED
Given the electricity crisis in the state, the California Independent System 
Operator likely will miss this month's deadline to file a 
regional-transmission-organization proposal with the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, the regulatory panel's chairman said last week.
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POWER SUPPLY WOES SPREAD TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
While the nation's attention has primarily been on the extremely volatile 
California electricity markets, the Pacific Northwest has also come under 
increasing pressure as power shortages sent electricity prices soaring to 
unprecedented levels in December.
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Chairman Suggests FERC Require 'West-Wide RTO' Be Formed

Calif Gov. Davis, Sr Corp Execs To Attend DC Elec Summit

Calif Assemblyman Names Energy Committee To Craft Bills

Allegheny Energy Sees Buy Adding To Net In 1st Year >AYE

PG&E: Intend To Make Jan 16 CalPX Payment; Cash Squeeze

Calif Assembly Speaker-2:Legislative Plans To Be Outlined

PRESS RELEASE: CE Generation Sr Sec On S&P Watch-Negative

Allegheny Energy CEO -3: Sees '01 Net $3.80-$4.10/Share

PRESS RELEASE: Moody's Affirms Sempra Energy, SDG&E

Sempra Energy, San Diego Gas & Elec Affirmed By Moody's

Allegheny Energy CEO -2: Expects To Expand Trading Unit

Calif Pwr Settlement Talks To Resume This Week

White House To Hold Calif Power Meeting At Treasury Tue

US Sen Lieberman Becomes Ranking Dem On Clean Air Panel

PRESS RELEASE: Power Supply Woes Hit The Northwest: Fitch

Allegheny Energy CEO Sees Merrill Deal Unlocking Value

PRESS RELEASE:Ca Utils With Counterparty Risk Cut:Moody's

Edison Mission Energy On Review For Cut - Moody's

PRESS RELEASE: Edison Mission On Moody's Review For Cut

Edison Funding Sr Unsec Cut To Baa3 By Moody's

Japan's Nichimen To Buy, Sell Surplus Power - Nikkei

Con Ed, NRC Defend Decision To Keep Indian Pt 2 Running

SoCal Ed Says 1,450 Jobs Cut Friday; 1,850 Total Cut

US DOE Extends Calif Pwr Emergency Order Through Jan. 10

India Enron May Invoke Guarantees To Recover Bills-Report

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California ISO Issues Stage One Electrical Emergency; Generation Outages And 
Limited Imports Put Operating Reserves in Short Supply

High Power Cost, Low Water Put Squeeze on City Light; Mayor Repeats Call for 
West Coast Price Caps, Proposes Rate Increase

Atlanta Gas Light's Ralph Cleveland Named Vice President of Virginia Natural 
Gas

Global Energy Inc. Completes Purchase of Svz Gasification Technology 
Operations And Patents from Berlinwasser Holding

Abraham accepts Energy post in Cabinet-(Michigan State U.)

How State's Utility Reform Fizzled

Power Producers Blast PSC Recommendations

Energy Crisis

Ferc Chairman Offers Compromise on California Power Market

Ppl Completes Acquisition of Additional Share in Pennsylvania Power Plant

PSE Customers Practice 'Next Generation' of Energy Management; Puget Sound 
Energy Urges Shifting Power Use to Off-Peak Times to Lower Demand

Filing Underscores Commitment to Uninterrupted Power Supply in California; 
Reliant Energy Announces Emergency Ferc Filing Regarding Payment Security

Illinois Power Now a Member of the Alliance Regional Transmission 
Organization (Rto)

Oge Energy Corp. Named to 'Platinum' List by Forbes Magazine for 2nd Straight 
Year

Ocean Energy Schedules January Conference Call And Web Cast

-Lack of Donations Brings End to Kentucky Utility Assistance Program

S&P Places CE Generation Llc on Creditwatch Negative

NY Natural Gas Review:Rallies on Cooler Forecasts, Strong Cash

Hottest New Energy Magazine to Examine E-Billing for Utilities, 
Internet-Based Energy Asset Management, Profitable Call Center Strategies And 
Data Interchange StandardsSpring Issue Will Include '2nd Annual Executive 
Guide to Providers of Customer Management Services'

David T. Flanagan Resigns from Energy East

-Utility Reform Is a Powerful Topic Among House Republicans

Pepco Closes Sale of Share in Pennsylvania Power Plant

Indusmin Energy Corp.: a Look Back At The Past Year

Department of Energy Bonneville Power Administration Umatilla Generating 
Project

Public Power Bridged A Big Chasm; This One's Just A Ditch Jump

Repeats: Energy Volume And Open Interest Totals-Jan 8

Hughes Joins American Electric Power As Vice President - Investor Relations

GM, Toyota reach agreement on fuel cell vehicle study

While Base Rates Remain Unchanged, Rising Natural Gas Prices Force El Paso 
Electric to Request Fuel Cost Increase

Energy Update/Los Angeles Department of Water And Power Daily Energy Update 
for Monday, Jan. 8, 2001

The Power and the Fury

Companies Are Not Prepared to Survive Power Outages

Gartner Says Energy Outages Signal Need for Erp II

Power Supply Woes Spread to the Pacific Northwest

DOE to Seek Ideas to Ease California Power Crisis at Tues Meeting

U.S. Department of Energy Awards Subcontract to Novozymes

Standard & Poor's Issues Report on Greka Energy Corporation

Eea - California Energy Crises Reveal Internal Constraints

EP Power Finance L.L.C. Announces Addition of Four Executives

Top Energy Summaries - Monday, January 08, 2001 - 9:16 Am

H.W. Wilson Company Selects Verity to Power the New Wilsonweb Site -- The 
Premier Reference Resource for Librarians And ResearchersVerity Technology 
Offers High-Speed, Precise Knowledge Retrieval And Supports Natural Language 
Queries

Study Offers Powder River Basin Coal Price Projections, Mine Costs And Future 
Capacity Expansions

Capstone Turbine ``Part of the Solution'' to California Energy 
CrisisMicroturbines Can Ease Utility Dependence on High-Cost Wholesale Power 
While Ensuring That Businesses Keep Running

-Raleigh, N.C.-Based Utility Progress Energy Ponders Sale of Rail, Barge Units

-Indianapolis Utility to Eliminate 20 Percent of Employees

-Natural Gas Rate Hike Would Raise Prices 40 Percent in Boulder, Colo.

High Voltage Engineering Corporation Taps Edgewater for Ebusiness Solutions; 
Edgewater Technology to Design And Implement Next-Generation Eprocurement 
Systems

Cambridge Energy Corporation Announces the Completion of Third Party 
Reservoir Evaluation on Its Latest Acquisitions

Allegheny Energy to Acquire Merrill Lynch's Global Energy Markets Unit; 
Acquisition Continues Allegheny's Transformation Into A Leading National 
Energy Merchant

Californian Power Crisis Comes under Scrutiny

Edison Cuts Jobs in California Power Crisis

Epoch Partners Publishes Research Note on the California Energy CrisisEpoch 
Senior Analyst Mark Langner Discusses The
Impact on Operators of CO-Location Facilities Including Exodus Communications 
And Equinix

Rotary Power International, Inc. Successful in Converting $5,400,000 of Debt 
Into Equity

UNL responds to soaring energy prices

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Neb Will Hold a Public Hearing in January on Certain Preliminary Matters 
Regarding The Sumas Energy 2. Inc. Application to Construct AnInternational 
Power Line@

Kestrel Energy Appoints a New Director; Rig Is Moved on to Greens Canyon #1 
for Recompletion

Top Energy Summaries - Monday, January 08, 2001 - 2:26 PM

Top Energy Summaries - Monday, January 08, 2001 - 12:16 PM

Mozambique to Acquire Africa's Largest Hydroelectric Power Station

Vietnam, India Sign Atomic Power Cooperation Accord

GM, Toyota Reach Agreement on Fuels for Fuel Cell Vehicles Including 
Technology Collaboration with Exxonmobil

Govt. to Boost Power Privatizations - Peru

Cambridge Energy Corporation Announces the Completion of Third Party 
Reservoir Evaluation on Its Latest Acquisitions

Iron and Steel Industry Negotiates the Use of Natural Gas

Top Energy Summaries - Monday, January 08, 2001 - 6:53 Am

Independent Energy Boss in Assets Bid

Barclays Caught in US Power Crisis

Indian state says it has no money to pay Enron for power

New Quota System for Renewable Energy Projects

India, China CO Operate in Renewable Power Projects

Norway: Hydropower Out, Natural Gas in

Tiananmen leak shows power struggle ahead of 2002 leadership change

World Bank Procurement - Tajikistan, Energy Management

Malaysian Power Plant in Pakistan to Open Next Month

Philippines Malampaya Gas Field to Increase Energy Self-Reliance

Enron may have trouble financing phase II of Dabhol Power project in India

FEATURE: German firm a power player in Vietnam By Michael Mathes, dpa

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-Lack of Donations Brings End to Kentucky Utility Assistance Program

-Utilities Consumer Advocate Named at Georgia Public Service Commission

-Utility Reform Is a Powerful Topic Among House Republicans

-Stocks of Oklahoma's Energy Firms See Surge in 2000

-Raleigh, N.C.-Based Utility Progress Energy Ponders Sale of Rail, Barge Units

-State Regulators Order Indiana Gas Co. to Make Slight Cut in Rates

-Indianapolis Utility to Eliminate 20 Percent of Employees

-Natural Gas Rate Hike Would Raise Prices 40 Percent in Boulder, Colo.

Skyrocketing Gas Bills Makes Chicago Residents Turn to Wood for Heat

Utah Utility to Raise Rates in January

The Record, Stockton, Calif., Eric Grunder Column

Sacramento, Calif.-Area Utility Ratepayers Hope for Wet Winter

California Utilities Drop on Market in Wake of Latest Rate Hike

California Legislators Urged Not to Accept Contributions from Utilities

California Utilities Commission Approves Electric Rate Hike

California Businesses Grapple with Increases in Energy Costs

Electricity Rate Hike Casts a Gloomy Pall Over San Francisco Area

California Utilities Commission Approves Rate Hikes

Oil Refinery Joins Energy Partnership with Memphis, Tenn.-Based Utility

Higher Energy Costs Affect Pennsylvania Consumers

Fresno, Calif., Businesses Outraged Over New Energy Rate Hikes

Albuquerque, N.M., Utility Shines in Year of Nasdaq Misery

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Sweden's power restored but many phones still down

Kiel utility reshuffles boards as TXU buys stake

UPDATE 1-PSEG to sell stranded cost bonds late Jan.

Power woes spread to Pacific Northwest - Fitch

UPDATE 1-Canadian metals shares get Alcoa bonus

PSEG seen offering $2.5 bln stranded cost bonds-sources

Moody's cuts Edison Funding ratings, may cut further

Calif. utility wins court ruling on recovering costs

WRAPUP 2-California Gov. Davis to address power crisis

WRAPUP 1-California Gov. Davis to address power crisis

Canada spot gas rises with U.S. on cold forecasts

UPDATE 2-Allegheny to buy Merrill energy trading unit

Allegheny to buy Merrill's energy trading unit

U.S. natgas winter heating costs seen up 70 pct

Illinois regulator to probe run-up in natgas prices

UPDATE 2-Calif. utility wins court ruling on recovering costs

UPDATE 1-Calif. utility wins court ruling on recovering costs

TVA says to sell 10-yr global power bonds this week

PG&E freezes management salaries amid soaring power prices

US natgas storage fell to record low in Q4 - EIA

Italy watchdog eyeing Enel's multi-utility role

UPDATE 4-Blast rocks German power plant, no injuries

UK's Barclays says not provisioning on PG&E

Alstom to lay off 550 workers in Montreal

U.S. stocks end lower, late rally limits losses

Calif. utility crisis seen risk for Europe markets

White House summit on California power crisis on Tuesday

Romania N-plant restarts after brief halt

Energen says EPS for 2001 may rise 25-30 percent

PPL completes buy of 83 MW of Pa. Conemaugh coal plant

EIA lowers estimate of nation's Q1 electricity demand

Richardson urges compromise to end Calif. power crisis

Moody's cuts 3 Calif utility projects, may cut 3 more

Merrill to sell energy trades unit to Alleghany-WSJ

Credit protection cost rises on Bank of America

Power supply restored to Zambia's Roan copper mines

Energy East says president resigns

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