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New tax on your utility bill

...Renewable Energy Standard (RES), requiring investor owned utilities to get 40 percent of their electric energy from...The bill also adds an additional mandate for investor-owned utilities to get 4 percent of their energy fuel supply...

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Governor's plan to end power crisis has skeptics

...framework does not yet meet this objective," said a statement from Pacific Gas & Electric Co., one of two investor-owned utilities that say they're facing bankruptcy because of the government's flawed deregulation legislation. Davis unveiled...

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Power generators eager to bring end to price-gouging investigations

...Operator, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, private class-action and antitrust lawsuits, and claims by investor-owned utilities. Legislators and legal experts questioned whether any state agreement could end all the suits and investigations...

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Hunt Technologies rebounds

...Lorentz said. The company is also moving into other markets with larger rural electric cooperatives and investor-owned utilities. Hunt Technologies reported it added 50 new customers in 2000 and expects 50 more this year. Bruce Kraemer...

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Business notes

...rural electric cooperatives, municipals and investor-owned utilities. CES International provides operations resource...management software for some of the world's leading investor-owned utilities, as well as municipalities and several electric...

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Senate vote supports renewable power sources in energy bill

...national energy policy. The requirement for investor-owned utilities to produce at least 10 percent of their power...from the requirement. The bill would allow investor-owned utilities to count their existing use of non-hydropower...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/032202/gov_0322020079.shtml
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Business notes

...next highest-rated electric utility in the country. Crow Wing Power's score is higher than the 29 largest investor-owned utilities in the country rated in the ACSI report. ACSI is managed by the University of Michigan Business School and...

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California governor proposes overhaul of electricity system

...inadequate. Fiscal analysts say more rate hikes -- or some other form of new revenue -- is needed for the investor-owned utilities. "We have to be able to restore in the minds of the financial community the creditworthiness of California...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/010901/gov_0109010014.shtml
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Power crisis

...energy-efficient products for state and local agencies to get through the crisis. Davis and California's two largest investor-owned utilities have pointed fingers at energy wholesalers, saying they have exacerbated the crisis by taking advantage of...

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Bush keeps power on

...administration, require power generators and natural gas companies to continue selling to California's two investor-owned utilities even though they are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and have accumulated almost $12 billion in debt...

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