Posted by Edward G. Lanza, Esq. on 31 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General
Florida Power & Light Co. said Thursday that the peak number of power outages caused by Tropical Storm Ernesto was 21,522. This is higher than their earlier estimate of 17,800 customers without electricity.
Most of the customers left without power were located in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties.
FPL says it restored power to virtually all affected customers as of midnight Wednesday.
Posted by Edward G. Lanza, Esq. on 31 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General
A small radioactive leak seeped into a pond at Florida Power & Light’s St. Lucie nuclear reactor, but posed no risk to the public, the company said.
Company officials said “drips” of tritium were discovered, but they believe they’ve already found and stopped the source. The leak was not dangerous to employees or others and wouldn’t affect any drinking water, the Juno Beach-based company told the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Posted by Edward G. Lanza, Esq. on 31 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General
After hearing complaints from customers, Verizon Communications has dropped plans to impose a supplier surcharge on its DSL service, the company said Wednesday.
Posted by Edward G. Lanza, Esq. on 31 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General
TXU Corp. announced Thursday plans to build up to three nuclear power plants in Texas.
The Dallas power company said in a press release that it will apply for licenses for the plants in 2008 and will probably finish building them around 2015 to 2020.
TXU didn’t say how much it would spend to build up to six gigawatts of nuclear power capacity it’s planning, but said the idea is to come up with a design and construction process that shaves up to 40 percent off of the average cost.
TXU said the average cost to build a nuclear plant is $2,100 per kilowatt. So TXU’s plans could cost around $8 billion.
Posted by Edward G. Lanza, Esq. on 31 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General
The Department of Public Utility Control said the state, searching for ways to reduce electricity bills, will next month begin to entertain proposals to build power plants or create new energy management programs.
In a news release Friday, the DPUC said it has approved a draft for its Request for Proposals to reduce electricity costs and plans to issue the RFP on Sept. 15.
Posted by Edward G. Lanza, Esq. on 31 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders agreed Wednesday on a plan to cut by 25% the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from California electric power plants, refineries and other sources by the year 2020.
Later, the agreement was approved by the Senate 23 to 14 with Democrats supporting it and Republicans opposed. It then went to the Assembly, where final approval was expected.
It would make California the first state in the nation to fight global warming by slapping caps on carbon dioxide and other emissions.
Posted by Edward G. Lanza, Esq. on 30 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General
YORK, PA — August 29, 2006 — The York Water Company’s President and CEO, Jeffrey S. Osman, announced today the Company’s Board of Directors established September 11, 2006 as the distribution date for the Company’s three-for-two common stock split to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 1, 2006.
Posted by Edward G. Lanza, Esq. on 30 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General
Exelon Corp.
on Wednesday cast doubt on its ability to complete its planned $18.5 billion takeover of Public Service Enterprise Group due to the companies’ struggles to receive approval from New Jersey regulators. Exelon said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was still committed to its ongoing efforts to complete the acquisition, but its management believed that it was no longer likely to close the deal.
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Posted by Edward G. Lanza, Esq. on 30 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General
Hackers illegally accessed a computer system and stole credit card information and other personal data from thousands of customers who purchased DSL equipment from an AT&T online store, the company said Tuesday.
AT&T Inc. said the system was hacked into over the weekend. The data of “fewer than 19,000 customers” were affected, the company said.
Posted by Edward G. Lanza, Esq. on 30 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: General
Pennsylvania has doubled the purchase of green electricity to 20 percent of its needs, becoming the largest U.S. state buyer of power from sustainable sources such as wind and water, the state government said on Tuesday.
The administration of Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell modified an existing contract with Community Energy Inc., a unit of Spanish renewable energy manufacturer Iberdrola, to buy 200,000 megawatt hours of electricity a year generated from renewable sources at a rate of 34 cents a kilowatt hour.
The contract calls for electricity that is generated 40 percent from wind power and 60 percent from hydroelectric sources. That will reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by some 123,000 tons, sulfur dioxide by 951 tons, and nitrogen oxide by 271 tons, the state said.
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