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<li><font size="3"><a href="#story2">Colorado Electricity Panel Addresses Administrative
Issues at First Meeting</a></font></li>
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<li><font size="3"><a href="#story3">CalEnergy Co. of Omaha, Neb., Wins Incentives for
California Plants</a></font></li>
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<li><font size="3"><a href="#story4">Power Company Uses New Jersey Port for Cross-State Trek</a></font></li>
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<li><font size="3"><a href="#story5">Northeast Utilities Takes Millstone 3 Nuclear Power
Plant to Full Power</a></font></li>
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<li><font size="3"><a href="#story6">Madison, Wis., Utilities Firm Sets Records for Gas,
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<h3><a name="story1">Cynthiana, Ky.-Based Electric Utility Seeks to Improve Customer
Relations</a></h3>
<p>By Jefferson George, Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.<br>
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News</p>
<p>CYNTHIANA, Ky.--At Harrison County High School last week, Cambo the Clown hopped from
one leg to the other, stretching an uninflated balloon with his hands as he kept his
balance.</p>
<p>The clown was entertaining children before the annual meeting of the Harrison Rural
Electric Cooperative Corp.</p>
<p>But Cambo's hopping and balancing act also illustrated the ups and downs the
Cynthiana-based utility has faced while stretching resources over the last year.</p>
<p>"Our family's had some rough going," Jim Lowe, chairman of the utility's
board of directors, told customers at the meeting.</p>
<p>During the past year, there has been a steady management shuffle, and charges have been
filed against several former employees, including a former manager.</p>
<p>Despite rough times for the cooperative, which provides power to Harrison and parts of
seven nearby counties, there have been some positives.</p>
<p>The criminal charges are against people no longer with the utility; the trial for six
of the defendants -- one pleaded guilty to lesser charges -- is scheduled for October. And
charges of mismanagement haven't led to rate increases for customers.</p>
<p>With a laid-back, folksy demeanor, Ken Carpenter, the current general manager, last
week discussed Harrison Rural Electric's future after a tumultuous past. He had recently
retired from a cooperative serving Jefferson County, Tenn., when the interim manager
before him, Jack Goodman, called about the Harrison County job.</p>
<p>"It was a great opportunity to use expertise in what I was considered good
at," Carpenter said.</p>
<p>Still, Bobby Barnes, a system engineer who has been with the cooperative for 27 years,
acknowledged that morale was low at times, especially after the late Danny R. Haney was
fired as general manager in August 1996. Another blow came with Don Marker's sudden
departure from that post.</p>
<p>"That was somewhat of a surprise and shock," Barnes said. Marker, he said,
was "someone who seemed willing to work."</p>
<p>As for the criminal charges, customers realized that the indictment of former employees
didn't reflect the current operation of the utility, Barnes said.</p>
<p>Now the utility has about 12,000 customers, Barnes said, with 600 new members expected
by year's end. That's twice the number of annual additions a few years ago.</p>
<p>Carpenter said he wants to monitor the growing membership with a more accurate and
regular meter-reading system.</p>
<p>The plan also would boost the utility's image by allowing officials to conduct
inspections or address problems regularly at members' homes, Barnes said.</p>
<p>The cooperative will tackle other issues in coming years, including boosting employee
training, Carpenter said.</p>
<p>Along with addressing the effect of any deregulation of the power industry, officials
may explore a merger with another cooperative. But the big focus appears to be on customer
relations.</p>
<p>"This is your cooperative," Carpenter said at last week's meeting. "You
own it, you elect the board and they hire the employees.</p>
<p>"We work for you." </p>
<p> </p>
<address>
Visit Kentucky Connect, the World Wide Web site of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, at <a href="http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader">http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader</a>
</address>
<p>(c) 1998, Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business
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<h3><a name="story2">Colorado Electricity Panel Addresses Administrative Issues at First
Meeting</a></h3>
<p>By Ginny Figlar, The Denver Post<br>
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News</p>
<p>The 30 members of the Colorado electricity advisory panel met for the first time Monday
to discuss deregulation of the electric industry, but the pace of the meeting was far from
lightning speed.</p>
<p>Those who wanted to get right into the issues of opening up Colorado's electricity
market will have to wait. The panel spent the day at the Norwest Center on Lincoln Street
in Denver setting the ground rules for its work the next 16 months, voting on who would
serve as chair and determining how many members would constitute a quorum among other
logistics.</p>
<p>The purpose of the panel, under Senate Bill 152, is to study the impacts of
deregulation and report its findings to lawmakers by Nov. 1, 1999.</p>
<p>Colorado Public Utilities Commission Director Bruce Smith served as moderator for
Monday's meeting and said while it seemed difficult working through administrative issues,
things are moving smoother than the work of the telecommunications deregulation panel a
few years back.</p>
<p>"I'm encouraged from that aspect," he said after the meeting.
"Procedurally I think this meeting went, quite frankly, better than I expected."</p>
<p>The members of the panel were appointed by Gov. Roy Romer, Senate President Tom Norton
and House Speaker Chuck Berry. Sen. Dave Wattenberg, R-Walden, who was voted in as
chairman of the panel, said the objective of choosing the panel members was to try to get
"as many factions as they could together."</p>
<p>Renewable-energy producers, agricultural and industrial consumers, and utility
employees are among the interests represented.</p>
<p>Karen Brown, with the Colorado Energy Assistance Foundation, represents low-income
consumers on the panel. While she can see the benefit of having such a diverse group to
"fight out the battles here" rather than back in the legislature, she also said
the large group would be "cumbersome."</p>
<p>"I think progress is going to be very slow," Brown said as she was leaving,
adding that defining "agreement" will require a meeting in itself. Panel member
Ron Lehr, an attorney and consultant representing renewable energy producers, was more
optimistic.</p>
<p>"I'm somewhat encouraged because it has started," he said. "Now we'll
take up the issues and see where we can get."</p>
<p>The panel agreed to divide into four subcommittees, focusing on consumer rate impacts,
direct consumer and supplier issues, social and community impacts, and legal/transitional
issues. It's within these smaller groups that Lehr and others on the panel anticipate
progress being made.</p>
<p>"I don't see how we could make it work without subcommittees," one panel
member said during the discussion. </p>
<p> </p>
<address>
Visit The Denver Post Online on the World Wide Web at <a href="http://www.denverpost.com">http://www.denverpost.com</a>
</address>
<p>(c) 1998, The Denver Post. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.</p>
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<h3><a name="story3">CalEnergy Co. of Omaha, Neb., Wins Incentives for California Plants</a></h3>
<p>Omaha World-Herald, Neb.<br>
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News</p>
<p>CalEnergy Co. Inc. of Omaha is evaluating final plans for three geothermal energy
plants in California after a state agency there named the firm as a winning bidder for $60
million in renewable energy incentives.</p>
<p>If CalEnergy develops the plants, it would receive monthly incentive payments for five
years based on the amount of electricity the plants generate, said Greg Abel, president
and chief operating officer. CalEnergy already operates 11 geothermal facilities in
California.</p>
<p>One of the plants would be in northern California and two in the central Imperial
Valley. The cost of the plants has not been made public. Each would be built, owned and
operated by a separate subsidiary. The California Energy Commission announced the winning
bids under a 1996 law intended to encourage development of renewable energy projects.<br>
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<p>(c) 1998, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.</p>
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<h3><a name="story4">Power Company Uses New Jersey Port for Cross-State Trek</a></h3>
<p>By Al Frank, The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.<br>
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News</p>
<p>Port Newark-Elizabeth is the East Coast's busiest container port but not everything
comes in a box, or even from overseas.</p>
<p>Public Service Electric & Gas needed a new transformer for its Essex station in
Newark and the easiest and quickest way to get the outsized piece of equipment from a
storage yard in Burlington was to ship it by barge down the Delaware River, around Cape
May and up the coast.</p>
<p>The voyage took 31 hours but moving it by truck would have taken far longer. With the
machinery sticking 14 feet above a massive flatbed trailer, it would have been almost
impossible to find an overland route without overpasses or entangling utility lines.</p>
<p>"It's not like just jumping on the Turnpike and running it up here," said
Michael Kayes, an engineer in PSE&G's electric distribution department, who
coordinated the move.</p>
<p>While a 90-mile road trip was possible, Kayes estimates it would have taken five days,
considering the dozens of municipal police departments that would have to be enlisted to
help coordinate traffic.</p>
<p>Far less complicated--and less costly, although PSE&G won't say how much--was the
130-mile barge journey.</p>
<p>W.J. Casey Trucking & Rigging Co. of Union, using a flatbed with 64 wheels, loaded
and unloaded the transformer, which is 24 feet long and 13 feet wide. It was carried
aboard Witte Barge 106, which was pushed by the tug Mary Alice. The vessels are operated
by Donjon Marine Co. of Hillside.</p>
<p>The trickiest part of the move involved timing tides so the barge and the bulkhead were
at just the right levels when the flatbed was pulled on and off over steel ramps.</p>
<p>"We had to wait for the tide so, when we drove it on and off, it wouldn't sink so
low the pitch would be so severe we didn't get stuck," said Nick Biondi, a Casey
principal.</p>
<p>As the flatbed was moved, the Mary Alice kept the barge from slipping away from the
dock. When relieved of its 200-ton burden in Newark, the empty barge floated 30 inches
above the asphalt berth.</p>
<p>From Port Newark there remained just a two-mile pull to the generating station at the
foot of Raymond Boulevard. The job was completed Wednesday afternoon by a 10-wheeled
Kenworth tractor, "Beast of the East."</p>
<p>It will take another two weeks or so before the transformer, valued at about $2.5
million, is hooked up and begins converting power so it is usable in homes and businesses.
</p>
<p> </p>
<address>
Visit New Jersey Online, the World Wide Web site of The Star-Ledger, at <a href="http://www.nj.com/news">http://www.nj.com/news</a>
</address>
<p>(c) 1998, The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business
News.</p>
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<h3><a name="story5">Northeast Utilities Takes Millstone 3 Nuclear Power Plant to Full
Power</a></h3>
<p>Providence Journal-Bulletin, R.I.<br>
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News</p>
<p>The Millstone 3 nuclear power plant in Waterford, Conn., returned to full strength
yesterday after more than two years without so much as generating enough electricity to
illuminate a light bulb. The plant reached 100 percent power at 12:59 p.m., marking what
officials at Northeast Utilities hope is a turning point for a company that has endured
financial problems and scrutiny from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. </p>
<p> </p>
<address>
Visit projo.com, the World Wide Web site of the Providence Journal-Bulletin, at <a href="http://www.projo.com/">http://www.projo.com/</a>
</address>
<p>(c) 1998, Providence Journal-Bulletin, R.I. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Business News.</p>
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<h3><a name="story6">Madison, Wis., Utilities Firm Sets Records for Gas, Electric Use</a></h3>
<p>By Judy Newman, The Wisconsin State Journal<br>
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News</p>
<p>"The system held up well," Madison Gas and Electric Co. spokesman Steve Kraus
said Tuesday after both local utilities set records for power use.</p>
<p>None of their customers had electricity shut off, but Alliant-Wisconsin Power &
Light Co. warns that it may pull the plug today on 70 big companies with interruptible
agreements. Both utilities say they may set records again today.</p>
<p>MGE customers drew 606 megawatts of electricity at 5 p.m. as they turned up air
conditioners to beat the heat. The previous record, 598 megawatts, was set three years
ago, almost to the day -- July 13, 1995 -- during a prolonged heat wave.</p>
<p>"We've seen lots of growth in the economy over the last couple of years,"
said Kraus. And after two relatively cool summers, the "huge number" of air
conditioners sold in 1995 is now being switched on.</p>
<p>Alliant-WPL also reported a new peak in electric use between 5 and 6 p.m. at 2,411
megawatts. The past record, 2,261 megawatts, was hit June 24.</p>
<p>During a hot spell last month, every major Wisconsin utility had to cut off power to
big customers with interruption agreements. That was not the case Tuesday, since all the
state's major power plants are running, and electricity from other states is getting
through.</p>
<p>Another state utility, Wisconsin Electric Power Co. also broke a record Tuesday when
late afternoon demand peaked at 5,437 megawatts, breaking the previous record of 5,368
megawatts, set on July 31, 1995. </p>
<p> </p>
<address>
Visit the Wisconsin State Journal on the World Wide Web at <a href="http://www.madison.com">http://www.madison.com</a>
</address>
<p>(c) 1998, Wisconsin State Journal. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business
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