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Top Stories (March 27)

CALIFORNIA APPROVES 40 PCT ELECTRIC RATE INCREASE
The California Public Utilities Commission approved on Tuesday a 40 percent 
increase in electricity rates to cover the soaring cost of energy and pump 
more cash into the state's near-bankrupt utilities.
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ALLEGHENY ENERGY PLANS TO SELL ELECTRICITY TO CALIFORNIA
Allegheny Energy announced Thursday that it has signed a 10-year contract to 
sell electricity to California.
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OFFICIALS MAY CALL FOR DELAY OF OREGON'S ELECTRICITY MARKET
Ever since the energy crisis hit the Northwest, utility Commissioner Ron 
Eachus and Oregon Senate President Gene Derfler have quashed any attempt to 
halt Oregon's march to partial deregulation of the state's electricity market 
Oct. 1.
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SOUTHWEST POWER POOL TO STUDY 6 NEW TRANSMISSION LINES
A working group within the Southwest Power Pool identified six new 
transmission lines with an estimated price tag of $240 million needed to ease 
the region's constrained high-voltage grid.
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BRITAIN CONSIDERING NEW POWER MARKET ABUSE MEASURE
Britain's energy minister Peter Hain on Tuesday said he was considering new 
proposals from energy regulator Ofgem for a market abuse condition in the 
licences of electricity generators.
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Brazil's Govt To Issue Cesp Sale Date And Price Soon

PRESS RELEASE: PSEG Power Corp Credit Rated BBB By S&P

Southwest Power Pool To Study 6 New Transmission Lines

Public Service Enterprise Group Affirmed At BBB By S&P

PSEG Power LLC Corp Credit Assigned BBB By S&P

FirstEnergy: 1320-MW Perry Holding Power For Testing

Revised Palo Verde Futures Vol. Mar. 26, 2

E.On Keeps Market Guessing On Next Step In Expansion

US AEP: Seeboard Sale Before 2002 Would Be Difficult

US Weather: Light Snow Forecast In Eastern Great Lakes

E.On/War Chest -3: Wants To Keep Degussa In DAX

E.On/War Chest -2: Sees Special Gains From VAW, Stinnes

E.On/Bewag -3: Rules Out New Stinnes Offering In 2001

E.On: Has EUR30B-EUR45B War Chest For "Expansion Plans"

E.On/Bewag -2: Arbitration Recommended 50-50 Split

E.On Sees '01 Double-Digit Operating Pft Growth Rate

E.On Sees Bewag Arbitration Ruling In 10-14 Days

Whitman Urged Bush Not To Break CO2 Campaign Vow - Report

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Pa Gov. Ridge Congratulates Nora Mead Brownell, Tapped by President Bush to 
Be Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner

DTE Energy Executive to Present at Salomon Smith Barney Distributed 
Generation & Power Technology Conference March 29

Calif. Regulators Raise Power Rates

Call for Conservation Comes As California ISO Issues Stage Two Electrical 
Emergency

Neuco, Inc. And Black & Veatch to Develop Power Industry's First Integrated, 
Real-Time Performance
Monitoring, Cost Tracking And Optimization Solution

Advisory/Congressional Announcement of New Tax Legislation Giving Major Boost 
to Nation's Fuel Cell Alternative Energy Sector

Senate Mulls Two Energy Proposals

Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 5:20 PM

Rentech Presentation at Howard Weil Energy Conference to Be Available on The 
Rentech Web Site

Mariner Energy Announces Sale of Remaining 20 Percent of Devils Tower 
Deepwater Gulf Development Project

Sempra Energy Resources Breaks Ground on Clean, Efficient Mesquite Power 
Project$500 Million Facility to Meet Fast-Growing Region's Electric Demands

PSE Files Plan Rewarding Customers Who Conserve And Shift Electricity Usage; 
`Next Generation' of Energy Management Empowers Customers to Manage Use, 
Control Costs

Hospital's Power Cut

Psi Energy President Named Assistant Energy Secretary

Patterson Energy, Inc. And Uti Energy Corp. Clear Hart-Scott-Rodino

Gasco Energy, Inc. Agrees to Acquire New Energy West Corporation

Plant Foes Power Up Southwest Michigan Residents Organizing

Cathedral Energy Services Ltd. (Operating As Directional Plus) Year End 
Report for the Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2000

Duke Energy Gas Transmission Offers High Deliverability Salt Cavern Storage 
Services from Copiah County, Miss.

Natural Gas Outlook

Repeats: Energy Volume And Open Interest Totals-Mar 27

GOVERNMENT OFFICES ORDERED TO MEET ENERGY-CUTBACK REGULATIONS

Calif. Puc Meets on Power Rate Hike

Texas Claims Bragging Rights on Power

Calpine Announces 1,000-Megawatt Natural Gas-Fired Power Project in Deer 
Park, Texas

Northwestern Joins with Governor Martz in Proposing 'Montana First Megawatts'

Select Energy Group Wins State Contract for Largest U.S. Fuel Cell 
Installation to Date

Media Advisory: Niagara Mohawk Teleconference to Outline Power Supply 
Portfolio for Summer 2001

U.S. Laboratories Awarded Puget Sound Energy Contract

State Proposes Electric Rate Hike: Puc Suggests 30 Percent Average Increase; 
Industry Hit Hardest

Satcon Launches Power Conversion Product Line for Distributed Power; 
Introduces Its Powergate100, Gridlink8 And Cellpack48 Systems for Power 
Conversion

Boulder City Looks at Energy Business Park

Republican Assembly Coup As Cox Replaces Campbell / Leader Voted Out Over 
Handling of Energy Crisis

Nethercutt Says Power High Priority Environmental Rules May Take; Back Seat 
to Energy Production

Duke Energy Corp - Gas Transmission Offers High Deliverability Salt Cavern 
Storage - Services from Copiah County, Miss.

Firm Cancels Power Plant in Gorham

Glendale Mulls Financing of Magnolia Power Plant

Prepared to Go Dark Santa Clarita Ready for Power Shortages

Alstom Wins Major Order for Clean Coal-fired Power Plant in the US

Electric Power Demand Growth in the Peninsula, During February, Reached 4,2%

Why Neta May Prove An Expensive Flop in Reality the New Power Trading System 
Is Unlikely to Deliver A Further Reduction in Prices

Pipeline's Path Could Be Decided in Next Few Days State Agency Will Rule by 
Tuesday Whether N.J. Energy Company Can Buy Virginia Gas CO.

Narragansett Electric Seeks Another Rate Hike

-Oklahoma City-Based Energy Firm Goes Ahead with Initial Offering

Rally Energy Corp: Energy Power Systsems Ltd - Rally Enters Into Agreement 
with Energy Power Systems Ltd.

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Positives Seen in Loss of NZ Energy Assets

Chubu Electric Cuts FY '01 Capex to 428.8 B. Yen

Japan Power Companies to Liquidate LNG Firm

Nissin Food, Tokyo Electric Added to World Cup Sponsors

Tohoku Electric Power Cuts Spending Plan

Coal Comfort: Luscar Says 30% European Price Rise Confirms Enterprise Value

Politicians Propose Power Subsidies - Chile

Environment-Argentina: Winds of Hope for Alternative Energy

Brazil: Cpfl Starts Construction of Thermal Electric Power Facility in Sao 
Paulo

Paraguay: Parana River Mill to Operate with Subsidized Power Tariffs

Brazil to Double Power Energy Imports from Argentina

Ecuador: Conelec Encourages Alternative Energy Sources

Zurich Global Energy Incorporates Marine Group; Takes Advantage of Financial 
Strength, Will Boost Efficiency

Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 2:22 PM

Brazil : Rio De Janeiro Attracts Companies in Telecommunications And Energy 
Sectors

Canaan Energy Corporation Announces Financial Results for 2000

Power Prices Could Be Cut by 30%

Conoco Chairman -- the State of The Global Energy Industry

Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 9:30 Am

Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov Consider the Privatization of Energy Enterprises 
Which Enter The System of Rao EES of Russia Is Unnecessary

Plug Power And Vaillant GMBH Unveil Fcha System at Ish Fair

Ocean Power Corporation - Sigma Update

Caminus at the Heart of U.K.'S Far-Reaching Regulatory Changes That Introduce 
Competitive Power Markets, Beginning Today

Beijing To Build Usd 82.13 Mln Garbage Incineration Power Plant

Top Energy Summaries - Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 7:40 Am

Brocker Technology And Trustpower Report Successful Marketing of Cell Phone 
Program to Utility Customers

Ocean Power Corporation Sigma Update

Italy Daily Criticizes EU Summit Over Energy Deregulation Stance

Ukraine to Privatize Six Regional Electric Utilities

South Korean Nuclear Energy Industry Team to Visit China

French opposition to energy liberalisation to be shortlived - Prodi

Finland: Russia's Closing of Border Post Attributed to Failure to Pay Power 
Bill

Power Company Wants Russian Regions to Clear Debts

Bonus Energy Wins Major Wind Turbine Contract in the US

Korean Ministry Sends Nuclear Energy Industry Team to China

Atomic Power Plants Not Completely Safe: Japanese Govt Report

Hitachi Cable, Sumitomo Electric to Form Cable Joint Venture

China to Begin Construction on Power Projects in 2001

Inner Mongolia Power CO Puts Up 16 Wind Power Generators

China's Wind Energy Reserves Estimated to Be 3 Bln Kw

Japan's Kansai Electric to Cut Capital Spending by 8% in Fy01

Hangzhou to Build China's Largest Refuse-Burning Power Station

Sooting Their Needs: China's Coal Use Decimating Gdp, According to Officials' 
Estimate

Wake-up Call on Power Deregulation

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Allegheny Energy Plans to Sell Electricity to California

Records Indicate Coal-Firm Lawsuits Were Dismissed without Legal Advice

Stock of Washington State Utility Metering Company Bucks Trend, Gains Ground

Spokane, Wash., Officials Expect Energy Crisis to Impact School Heating Bills

Washington State Utility Company Prospers Due to Energy Trading Business

California Residents Criticize Proposed Electricity Rate Hike

California Tech Firms Struggle to Digest Electricity Rate-Hike Proposal

California Energy Firm Wins Right to Halt Electricity Sales to Utility

California Hospitals Won't Face Rolling Power Outages

Utility Chooses Transmission Line Route Through Riverside County, Calif.

The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif., Andy Mccue Column

Officials May Call for Delay of Deregulation of Oregon's Electricity Market

Rhode Island Energy Firm Looks to Raise Rates Again

Electricity Rate Increases Are a Jolt, Say Rhode Island Consumers

Utility Looks to Drop Natural Gas Rates by 14.3 Percent in Erie, Pa.

Butte, Mont.-Area Energy Firm Tests Generator

Akron, Ohio-Based Energy Firm to Eliminate 100 Jobs

-Electricity Marketers Ordered to Justify Prices in California

-Oklahoma City-Based Energy Firm Goes Ahead with Initial Offering

-Oklahoma City to Host Workshop on Wind-Power Opportunities

-San Antonio, Texas, Asked to Refuse Tax Breaks to Companies over Aquifer

-San Antonio, Texas, Utility Director Reassigned after Consulting Inciden

-Employees of Knoxville, Tenn., Nuclear Plant Complain of Unpaid Overtime

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UPDATE 1-Calif. okays plan to ensure small generators are paid

WRAPUP 1-Calif. approves 40 pct electric rate rise

Dominion utility chief says nuke waste site long overdue

New Issue - American Transmission sells $300 mln notes

INTERVIEW-Calif treasurer says PUC ruling shields coffers

Giuliani asks for New York wholesale power price caps

Williams, NRG CEOs cheer California rate hike

UPDATE 1-SoCal Edison to make some missed interest payments

Hydro-Quebec sees U.S. sales growth slowing in 2001

FUND VIEW-GE Value managers eye retailing, insurance, energy

Standard & Poor's says changes S&P 500, MidCap 400 indices

NU unit stranded cost deal brightens drab ABS market

Protests delay German nuclear waste transport

Connecticut orders largest fuel cell system yet

TEXT-Moody's cuts Allegheny Energy rtg to Baa1

Enron CEO says Calif. rate hike will help

UPDATE 1-Calif. approves 40 pct electric rate increase

UPDATE 1-Bush names two FERC commissioners, keeps Hebert

El Paso ends work on damaged N.M. natural gas line

Calpine to build 1,000 megawatt natural gas plant in Texas

Enron rewards Lay with $7 mln bonus

PNM raises 2001 Q1 earnings forecasts on power prices

TEXT-S&P may still raise AES Corp ratings

RPT-Bush picks two FERC commissioners

UPDATE 1-NU unit prices $1.44 bln stranded cost deal

Ariz. Palo Verde 1 nuke coasts down for 35-day refuel

Oklahoma Gov signs $5.3 bln budget, vetoes spending

Chile Feb. electrical output rises 3.9 pct yr/yr

UPDATE 1-AEP seeks buyers for UK-based Seeboard-sources

TEXT-Moody's cuts Tampa Electric Co ratings

FERC changes date for Western power meeting

Italy Treasury says 2nd Enel stake sale put off

TEXT-S&P rates Edison Mission Energy notes

Britain considering new power market abuse measure

Cinergy unit Pres. Bailey named to U.S. Dept. of Energy

Exelon files $1.5 bln shelf offering of debt securities

UPDATE 2-E.ON seeks to expand, no news on Powergen

INTERVIEW-E.ON eyeing all Spanish power market players

Vietnam censures 2 officials for neglecting duties

Japan govt admits dangers of nuclear power

Portugal's EDP could sell Guatemalan firm stake

Duke Australia gas pipeline ruling delayed

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