Leonard Hyman & William Tilles

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• South Carolina Authorities Fire Utility Commission

  Published 20 February 2018 | viewed 4,277 times

  This week, the South Carolina state House of Representatives, in a virtually unanimous vote, voted to fire all seven members of the state’s public utility…

• Trump Proposes Sale Of Transmission Assets

  Published 15 February 2018 | viewed 8,830 times

  Hidden away in the Trump Administration’s long-awaited “Legislative Outline for Rebuilding Infrastructure in America” is the administration’s latest idea to raise some cash without raising…

• Grid Batteries Will Hurt Wholesale Power Generators

  Published 12 February 2018 | viewed 10,684 times

  Last month, one of the largest and most significant electric utilities in the Midwest, American Electric Power (AEP), made a quiet announcement. We believe it…

• Utility Sues Nuclear Energy Institute For Extortion

  Published 07 February 2018 | viewed 16,485 times

  We aren’t lawyers, but extortion sounds like a serious charge. NextEra Energy, parent of Florida Power and Light and owner of several nuclear power stations…

• Three Quarters Of British People Want To Re-Nationalize Utilities

  Published 27 January 2018 | viewed 10,877 times

  According to a poll taken late last year, 77 percent of respondents in the UK wanted to re-nationalize all of Britain’s energy utilities. In addition,…

• The UK May Renationalize Utilities

  Published 20 January 2018 | viewed 9,265 times

  Back in the heady days of Thatcherism, the British government sold just about all its commercial assets: the banks, steel company, airline, ports, and utilities.…

• A Rare High-Profile Utility Takeover

  Published 10 January 2018 | viewed 7,452 times

  Dominion Energy, Virginia’s largest utility, announced a takeover of holding company SCANA. SCANA's principal operating subsidiary, South Carolina Electric & Gas, is the main privately…

• Can The U.S. Compete In The Electric Car War?

  Published 03 January 2018 | viewed 17,170 times

  Recently, William Clay “Bill” Ford Jr., executive chairman of Ford Motor Co., said China was “at the heart” of the electric vehicle and the “mobility”…

• Should The State Take Over Pacific Gas & Electric?

  Published 24 December 2017 | viewed 19,543 times

  First by poison (Aliso Canyon), then by gas explosion (San Bruno), and now by fires (Northern California). This is no joke. There’s an almost biblical…

• Regulators Rescue Troubled Vogtle Nuclear Plant

  Published 23 December 2017 | viewed 7,397 times

  There’s a scene in that classic black and white boxing movie, Requiem for a Heavyweight. A hulking, groggy Anthony Quinn tries to stay on his…

• South Carolina Governor Looks To Sell State Utility

  Published 21 December 2017 | viewed 5,737 times

  In one particularly harrowing scene in the movie the Shawshank Redemption, Tim Robbins asks the brutish prison guard whether he trusts his wife. A question…

• Nuclear Power's Resurgence In The Middle East

  Published 18 December 2017 | viewed 20,113 times

  In his recent trip to Saudi Arabia, we have no doubt that US Energy Secretary Perry discussed that nations’ plans to embark on a 16…

• Regulated Utilities Could See Big Changes

  Published 13 December 2017 | viewed 6,157 times

  What level of profit does a company need to attract financial capital? Intuitively, business people grasp the idea of tangible expenses such as salaries, rent,…

• Is This The End Of Nuclear Power In The UK?

  Published 29 November 2017 | viewed 23,954 times

  The UK’s ambitious program to build more nuclear generating stations will begin with the massive Hinkley Point units. Yet, in a recent paper, Prof. Steve…

• The Problem With U.S. Public Utility Regulation

  Published 27 November 2017 | viewed 11,528 times

  Electric utility regulation is back… Bond rating agency Moody's just released a study reviewing regulation worldwide. The report begins with “Prudent regulation key to mitigating…

• Energy Majors Hit Hard By Climate Regulations

  Published 20 November 2017 | viewed 9,424 times

  They say that bad news come in threes. The headlines one day this past week certainly gave credence to that notion—at least for the fossil…

• GE Looks To Divest Energy Assets As Turmoil Continues

  Published 13 November 2017 | viewed 11,493 times

  General Electric Corp., as part of a turnaround plan announced November 13, halved its common stock dividend, from $.24 to $.12. per quarter, a fifty…

• Why Are The British Paying So Much For Energy?

  Published 02 November 2017 | viewed 14,690 times

  Early this year, British politicians upset by the UK's high electricity prices, commissioned a study, the Cost of Electricity Review. There is an irony here.…

• Cars Are The Future Of Energy Storage

  Published 23 October 2017 | viewed 18,706 times

  A number of years ago, one of the smartest entrepreneurs in the electric industry (as evidenced by the timing of his sale of generating assets…

• Kobe Steel Scandal Could Rattle Nuclear Industry

  Published 14 October 2017 | viewed 12,895 times

  Japan’s Kobe Steel has joined a rather unfortunate "club". That club's membership includes those Japanese companies recently racked by scandal and mismanagement. Kobe's management admitted…