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Jun 07, 2011
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Martin Rosenberg
I am getting ready to attend EEI’s big annual conclave of top utility executives in Colorado Springs next week.
The chieftains will gather in times of unprecedented turmoil in their ranks. We will focus on one major source of change – mergers and acquisitions – in our upcoming July issue of EnergyBiz. And we also will identify the ten utility CEOs who had...
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Jun 02, 2011
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Martin Rosenberg
It has crept upon us. Now, we read that the shale play in the United States has successfully courted $250 billion of investment. Wow. That is well worth pondering.
It vastly eclipses the few tens of billions of dollars invested in building next generation nuclear power plants.
Piles of money are now pursuing the deep gas. America’s energy investors are speaking with their...
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May 25, 2011
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Martin Rosenberg
Yes, we live in amazing times.
If you live and work in the energy sector you need to become a broadly educated Renaissance woman or man. Fast.
What am I thinking?
Is Scientific American on your reading list? If not, you may want to take a look at the May issue.
It looks at seven technologies that may totally transform the energy scene.
The seven?
Fusion triggered fission...
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May 18, 2011
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Martin Rosenberg
Big new pathways are being forged – right here, where you blogger sits, in Kansas City.
You may have heard the national news that Google after a national search settled on Kansas City, Kansas as the site for its first build out of its long-anticipated 21st century Internet fire hose. More than 1,100 cities wanted that honor.
Google net’s 1-gigabit-per-second speed would be...
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May 16, 2011
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Martin Rosenberg
The future of nuclear power has become – well – radioactive.
I mean, there is no way to approach it, wrestle with it and make sense of it.
Siemens – the big manufacturer- last month said it is rethinking its role in nuclear power. Its financial chief said back in April, “Fukushima has to be an occasion for taking stock” regarding the nuclear genie....
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May 11, 2011
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Martin Rosenberg
I met Robert Stempel, the former CEO of General Motors, at a Department of Energy conference in Detroit a few years back.
I was reminded of that meeting when I bumped across his obituary this week.
Stempel is one of those rare persons one encounters in life who thrive by going against the grain. Rivaling others’ expectations provides such souls heaps of joy.
Stempel steered GM...
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May 09, 2011
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Martin Rosenberg
Michael Granoff in bold strokes painted a vision of the future of world transport – one that will increasingly leave oil and gasoline fading in the rearview mirror.
Take an electric car of tomorrow, he told an audience in Kansas City last week, and it will have more in common with your multiple electronic gadgets than the car now slumbering in your garage.
“What this...
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May 05, 2011
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Martin Rosenberg
Sometimes I am a believer in incremental change.
Other times I subscribe the radical lever theory. Put a revolutionary fulcrum in place and you can move the world.
You may have missed the NY Times piece perched atop the Business front page, “To Enhance Chip Speed, Intel Enters 3rd Dimension." It seems that since the dawn of the computer chip era five decades ago, chips were...
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May 02, 2011
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Martin Rosenberg
Utilities Cry Out for Explainers
Pacific Gas and Electric Company if is not careful may wind up being known as the utility joke by the bay.
It has sustained a series of baffling missteps recently, from backing a ballot issue that exploded in its face – to failing to anticipate and head off a seemingly wacky movement out to raise alarms about the health effects of...
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Feb 03, 2011
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Martin Rosenberg
SAN DIEGO - The energy sector is poised for explosive growth as the recession winds down and pent up demand for 21st century capabilities reverberates at utilities and hundreds of energy service companies, vendors and suppliers, leading figures across the industry said this week.
Paul K. Maier, Siemens vice president of business development, smart grid applications, said that he sees demand "...
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