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Top Stories (March 5)

CALIFORNIA GETS 40 POWER CONTRACTS
The state has reached long-term contracts with electricity suppliers to keep 
power flowing to customers of two financially ailing utilities, Gov. Gray 
Davis announced Monday.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON SEEKING NEW CASH IN ADVANCE OF ANY SETTLEMENT
Edison International told investors Friday that it was seeking bridge 
financing for its Southern California Edison utility unit to bring in cash in 
advance of a settlement with California.
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CITY APPROVES GREEN POWER PURCHASE -AMONG LARGEST IN NATION BEGINNING IN JULY 
2001
The Los Angeles City Council on Friday, March 2, approved one of largest 
purchases of renewable green power in the nation.
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US SUPREME COURT WON'T HEAR FLORIDA POWER PLANT LAW CHALLENGE
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a constitutional challenge to 
a Florida state law barring the construction of power plants to serve 
competitive wholesale electricity markets.
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BRITISH ENERGY HAS NUCLEAR PLANS
British Energy, the nuclear electricity generator, is making plans to replace 
its existing portfolio with nuclear, rather than gas- fired, plant. The move, 
which would have been unthinkable a year ago, follows a near-trebling in 
wholesale gas prices in the last six months, on the back of soaring oil 
prices, worries over Britain's dwindling North Sea gas supplies and over 
global warming.
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Exelon, Xcel Take Utility Name Dispute To Federal Court

Northeast Utilities Poised To Battle Storm; No Action Yet

New Jersey Winter Storm Vignettes

Duke Energy/Calif. Power Pact -2: To Begin Jan. 1, 2002

UK Innogy Uses Web To Auction Decommissioned Power Plant

Duke Energy: Sales To calif. To Total $4B Over 9 Yrs>DUK

Body Of Worker Killed In W.Va. Plant Accident Recovered

Most Flights Canceled At NY Airports; Govt Offices Shut

Flights Canceled/Northeast US -2: Travelers Stranded

US Supreme Court Won't Hear Fla Power Plant Law Challenge

US Supreme Court/EPA -2: States, Utilities Fought Rules

US Supreme Court Lets Stand EPA Interstate Smog Rules

Duke Energy Seeks To Double Auth Cmn Shares To 2B From 1B

NY, NJ Offices, Schools Closed -2: Most Flights Canceled

AmerenUE 1,500-MW Callaway Near Full Power After Repairs

Venezuela Telecom Regulator To Start LMDS Auction By May

Flights Canceled, Schools Closed By Storm In Northeast US

NY, NJ Offices, Schools Closed But Commuters Go To Work

Over Foot Of Snow In Upstate NY; Sleet, Wind In Northeast

So Cal Ed: Seeking New Cash In Advance Of Any Settlement

PG&E Corp: Creditors To Be Paid Within One Week

New Jersey Still Waiting For The Worst Of The Storm

US Businessmen Call For Early Meeting Of US, India Govts

US Northeast Prepares As Snowstorm Begins To Hit Region

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Hampshire Mayor Casts Tie-Breaker to Suspend Village Tax on Natural Gas

Bonneville Power Administration: Earthquake Preparedness Pays!

City Approves Green Power Purchase -- Among Largest in NationBeginning in 
July 2001, 10 Percent of City Government's Electricity Will Be Purchased from 
New Clean Renewable Energy Sources

Pure Resources, Inc. Announces Its Participation in the Cibc World Markets 
Annual Energy Conference

Lincoln Electric to Join Marketing Group

Renewable Energies Focused in Combating Global Warming: UN

National Green Power Company Hires Coo; Thomasson Most Recently Vice 
President of A Privately Funded Startup

GPU Energy Restoration Update

Magnetek, Inc. Expands Its Reach in North American Telecom Market with 
Acquisition of ADS The Power Resource, Inc.

Commodities Update: Energy Up; Export Ideas Rally Livestock

Fitch Rates Allegheny Energy Supply's $400mm Notes `BBB+'

Calif. Gets 40 Power Contracts

Oregon energy deregulation not like California's

Difrancesco Backs Opponents of Power Plants

Engineers to Demonstrate Electric System That Aims to Avert Power Failures 
Through Automatic Adjustments to Consumption

Duke Energy Signs Memorandum of Understanding for Long-Term Power Sales to 
California

Fox, Bush To Push Respective Energy Needs In Visit

Top Energy Summaries - Monday, March 05, 2001 - 2:23 PM

Bush Calls Energy Security Foreign Policy Priority

Pogo Producing Company Retains Madison Energy Advisors to Divest of Pipeline 
Assets

Lexxor Energy Inc. Announces the Addition of Five Technical Positions

Repeats: Energy Volume And Open Interest Totals-Mar 5

Coal Giant Luscar Secures Time to Search for White Knight Bidder

Beacon Powers Up for Energy Technology Conferences

Energy Update/Los Angeles Department of Water And Power Daily Energy Update 
for Monday, March 5, 2001

Lean Imports And Off-Line Power Plants Lead to Stage One Emergency; 
California ISO Requests Consumers to Cut Back on Energy Use

Calif. Power Report Seen As Ferc Test

Firoz Rasul, Chairman And CEO of Ballard Power Systems, Named National 
Transportation Person of The Year

Prize Energy Closes $65 Million Apache Acquisition

Power Plugs in Space

Extensive U.S. Coal Supply, Demand Study Available from Hill & Associates

Management`S Discussions: 10-K405, Geodyne Energy Income Ltd Partnership 
Iii-a 1 of 2

Natural Gas Prices for March Fall 21% Nationwide As Decline Goes Into Second 
Month, According to Platts

Zap Taps Into Solar Energy Veteran Alternative Energy, Transportation 
Companies Form Alliance

Jeffrey S. Young Joins Pa Consulting Group's Energy Strategy And Risk 
Management Practice

Duke Energy Corp - Signs Memorandum of Understanding for Long-Term Power 
Sales to - California

Unocal Enters Into Deepwater Gom Exploration Agreement with Ocean Energy

Texas Electric Choice Launches Statewide Advertising Campaign; Texans Can 
Begin Shopping for Retail Electric Providers During Pilot Program

Lodestar Pricingexpert Supports Siebel Eenergy; Lodestar Corporation Embraces 
New And Expanded Ebusiness Solution for the Energy Industry

Promax Energy Inc - Acquires Balance of Working Interest in Cessford

GPU Energy Reports No Widespread Customer Outages

Uqm Technologies Introduces Advanced Propulsion System for Hybrid, Electric 
And Fuel Cell Vehicles at 2001 Sae World Congress

Methane Gas to Be Turned Into Power

Uc Pioneers Conservation / Two Decades of Innovations Prepared Campuses for 
Energy Price Crunch

U.S. Fuel Cell Council: New Report on Fuel Cell Power for Vehicles

Doreal Energy Corp - Tapir Association Contract & Corporate Update

High Power Costs Force Alumina Production Cuts in the US

Power Plant's Value at Issue

Growth Takes Center Stage the 2001 Legislature Will Decide Whether the State 
Will Put Power to Control Sprawl Back in Local Hands.

Roseland Resources Ltd.: Marchwell Capital Corp - Roseland Announces Take 
Over Bid for Marchwell Energy Corp.

National Energy Board - Agreement Reached on Preliminary Information Package 
for Gas - Development in The Northwest Territories

Magin Energy Inc - Financial Advisors Retained

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Energy Problems

Utility Behemoth Angles for Deep Discount on Italian Carrier

Ecuador: Government Invests to Set Up Solar Energy in Amazon Villages

TOTALFINAELF COMPLETES GENER POWER COMPANY DEAL

Foreign Firms to Boost Uzbek Energy Sector

British Energy Has Nuclear Plans

SeaWest to Conclude Codelco Wind Studies Mid-2001 - Chile

Expert panel set up to overhaul India's power sector

Energy Services Signs Three Long-Term Services Agreements in the Gulf

Siemens wins 130m dollar contract for UAE power station turbines

Chile: Codelco's Power Energy Supply Auction to Help Grow Electrical Energy 
Industry

Calpine's Quest for Power / American Indians Split Over Bay Area Supplier's 
Efforts to Tap What Some View As Their Own Source of Sacred, Spiritual Energy

Construction of Power Expansion Project Begins

Siemens wins 140-mln-euro power plant contract in United Arab Emirates

India's Dabhol Power Company May Seek Help from Arbitor

STOCKWATCH: British Energy weak as Goldman cuts to 'market underperformer'

PNOC geothermal unit offers to buy Napocor's geothermal assets

International Power Begins Construction of 280mw Al Kamil Power Plant in Oman

Tanzania, Zambia Start Work for Cross-Border Power Project

Combined-Cycle Power Plant Inaugurated in Karaj, Iran

Guangdong Daya Bay nuclear plant 2000 power output exceeds 14 bln KwH

Johnson Electric moves production to China, Mexico from Mississippi

Greenpeace Asks Government to Axe Coal-Fired Power Plants

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Snohomish County, Wash., Utility to Use Software to Improve Distribution

Spokane, Wash.-Based Utility to Operate Generating Plant for Cost Savings

The Record, Stockton, Calif., Eric Grunder Column

Panel Approves Expansion of Wake County, N.C., Nuclear Waste Storage Facility

Providence Journal, R.I., Peter Phipps Column

Elderly Residents of Colorado Springs, Colo., Cope with Utility Cost Increase

Japanese Contractor Stops Deliveries to California Nuclear-Weapons Project

-CEO of Atlanta Natural Gas Firm Reflects on Deregulation of Industry

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EU mergers and takeovers (UPDATED MARCH 5)

Update 1-S.C. Summer nuke seen at full power by weekend

UPDATE 1-Duke agrees $4 bln Calif. power contracts

Duke (DUK.N) agrees $4 bln Calif. power contracts

Duke agrees $4 bln Calif. power contracts

UPDATE 1-U.S. Supreme Court lets stand EPA pollution rule

UPDATE 1-Brit Energy dips on broker advice

Progress Energy completes N.C. natural gas pipeline

UPDATE 1-U.S. storm means hundreds of canceled flights

S&P rates El Paso Corp euro 500 mln offering

Brazil real firmer on expected dollar inflows

Power lines may raise cancer risk, UK study shows

HEADLINES STOCKS - U.S. stocks to watch on March 5

Autonomy, Intl Power set for ejection in FTSE rejig

Suez seeks Air Liquide alliance -paper

Air NZ, Ansett win NZ$180 mln engineering contract

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