<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Utilities-News News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=23&amp;catid=167</link><description>News Feed for - Utilities-News</description><item><title>Basic Energy Services, Inc. Closes Exchange Offer</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96393416&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T20:13:00</pubDate><description>MIDLAND, Texas Basic Energy Services provides well site services essential to maintaining production from the oil and gas wells within its operating area. The company employs more than 3,800 employees </description><source>Forbes.com</source></item><item><title>BRIEF-New EDF CEO rules out taking stake in any Areva's business - Le Figaro</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96492966&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T19:47:00</pubDate><description>PARIS, Nov 25 (Reuters) - EDF: Chief Executive Officer Henri Proglio tells Le Figaro in an interview that: * He is ruling out taking stake in any Areva * That certain Areva's activities could be helped </description><source>Forbes.com</source></item><item><title>Southwestern Electric Power hikes rates in Ark.</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96362509&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T19:24:00</pubDate><description>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Southwestern Electric Power Co. has won regulatory approval for two rate hikes for its Arkansas customers. SWEPCO said Wednesday that a base rate increase in December will raise residential </description><source>Washington Post</source></item><item><title>Southern Wilderness of Edison, Georgia Awarded Contract for New Great Dunes Park </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96495709&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T20:55:00</pubDate><description>Bid Received and Awarded at Nearly Half Million Dollars Under Budget JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jekyll Island Authority is pleased to announce that the bid to construct the first </description><source>Reuters</source></item><item><title>Global Energy Holdings Group files Chapter 11</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96412043&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T19:40:00</pubDate><description>Global Energy Holdings Group, an Atlanta-based renewable energy company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware. In a filing Wednesday, Global estimated assets at about $28 million, </description><source>San Francisco Chronicle</source></item><item><title>Mass. moves to streamline renewable energy efforts</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96489203&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T19:13:00</pubDate><description>BOSTON -- Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a bill designed to streamline the state's push for renewable energy. The new law transfers the state's Renewable Energy Trust to the Massachusetts </description><source>Washington Post</source></item><item><title>OG&amp;E's 'OU Spirit' Wind Farm Agreement Approved By OCC</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96365394&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T19:30:00</pubDate><description>OKLAHOMA CITY The Commission order approved the agreement which also assigns to OG&amp;E's customers the proceeds from the sales of the wind farm's renewable energy credits, including credits purchased by </description><source>Forbes.com</source></item><item><title>BRIEF-RWE says completely sold American Water stake</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96431163&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T08:33:00</pubDate><description>FRANKFURT, Nov 25 (Reuters) - RWE AG: * Says completely sold American Water stake * Says sale of American Water greenshoe leads to proceeds of about $78 million ((Frankfurt Newsroom; +49 69 7565 1272)) </description><source>Forbes.com</source></item><item><title>OG&amp;E's 'OU Spirit' Wind Farm Agreement Approved By OCC</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96487136&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T18:53:00</pubDate><description>Farm to be fully operational by year-end; cost recovery as turbines come online OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OG&amp;E announced today that the Oklahoma Corporation Commission has approved </description><source>Reuters</source></item><item><title>Water firm pledges floods help</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96402639&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T16:28:00</pubDate><description>United Utilities, the firm which supplies water to Cumbria, has promised to continue to help the flood damaged region return to normal. Chief executive Philip Green said: "This remains a very difficult </description><source>BBC</source></item><item><title>Wind farm suffers gearbox faults</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96497784&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T20:29:00</pubDate><description>A wind farm off the coast of Kent has suffered persistent mechanical failure in the four years since it began operating, BBC South East has revealed. Gearboxes in all 30 turbines on the Kentish Flats </description><source>BBC</source></item><item><title>United Utilities fears tough choices after price review</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96497328&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T20:24:00</pubDate><description>Philip Green, chief executive of United Utilities, has warned that if the water regulator decides to impose "unbalanced" curbs on prices on Thursday, there will be "implications for the balance sheet, </description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>E.ON chief Paul Golby fears clean coal may never be viable</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96497325&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T20:23:00</pubDate><description>Extra funding and better market conditions must be created for clean coal if it is ever to progress "beyond the blueprint" of trial plants, Dr Paul Golby, chief executive of E.ON UK, has warned. By Rowena </description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>Allegheny Energy, American Electric Power Affiliates To File New Application In </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96412067&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T20:12:00</pubDate><description>(RTTNews) - Allegheny Energy Inc. (AYE: News ) and American Electric Power (AEP: News ) said that regulatory commissions in West Virginia and Virginia issued rulings on procedural schedules for the review </description><source>RTTNews.com</source></item><item><title>Rio de Janeiro hit by breakdown in city's electricity supply</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96489248&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T19:17:00</pubDate><description>Rio de Janeiro's beach neighbourhoods lost power for hours in sweltering summer weather today, prompting restaurants to toss out spoiled food and business owners to send employees home. The cut came two </description><source>Guardian.co.uk</source></item><item><title>AMP Ohio Coal Plant Canceled</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96486628&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T20:24:00</pubDate><description>This is a nice piece of news . Hopefully the folks in Meigs County, OH will have a good holiday this year in celebrating the cancellation of this proposed plant.    Meigs is ranked as one of the most </description><source>Coal is Dirty</source></item><item><title>NiSource Outlook Raised To Stable By Moody's - Update</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96387879&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T15:41:00</pubDate><description>Optional: Temporarily hide the 'tabber' class so it does not 'flash' on the page as plain HTML. After tabber runs, the class is changed to 'tabberlive' and it will appear. //Function Which Calls Swap </description><source>RTTNews.com</source></item><item><title>Two Capstone Clean Energy Product Development Projects Selected by the U.S. DOE </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96473093&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T14:58:00</pubDate><description>Two Capstone Clean Energy Product Development Projects Selected by the U.S. DOE and BIRD Foundation for Funding Grants CHATSWORTH, Calif., Nov. 25, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capstone Turbine Corporation </description><source>Reuters</source></item><item><title>Baytex Energy Trust to Present at the Canaccord Adams Global Energy Conference and </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96481930&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T20:57:00</pubDate><description>3:22pm EST storyKeywords RTR_ArticleTitle ' Baytex Energy Trust to Present at the Canaccord Adams Global Energy Conference and the FBR Capital Markets 2009 RTR_ArticleBlurb ' CALGARY, ALBERTA, Nov 25 </description><source>Reuters</source></item><item><title>Abengoa wins E.ON as partner for solar plants</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96328088&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T12:12:00</pubDate><description>FRANKFURT, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Spanish renewable energy company Abengoa said on Wednesday it won German utility E.ON as a partner for two solar power plants in southern Spain in the company's first joint-venture </description><source>Forbes.com</source></item><item><title>UPDATE 2-United Utilities may sell assets, faces bill cuts</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96459537&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T11:13:00</pubDate><description>* Interim dividend rises 5 pct * Shares down 1.3 percent, after 2-week gain (Recasts, adds analyst reaction, share price, company comments) LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Britain's biggest listed water company </description><source>Reuters UK</source></item><item><title>Japan's Chubu to buy stake in Gorgon LNG project</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96449089&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T09:24:00</pubDate><description>TOKYO, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power Co (9502. T) said on Wednesday it decided to acquire 0.417 percent of Australia's Gorgon liquefied natural gas project from U.S. oil major </description><source>Reuters UK</source></item><item><title>United Utilities says slow demand hits H1</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96447950&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T08:17:00</pubDate><description>LONDON (Reuters) - United Utilities (UU.L) said reduced demand for water from recession-hit businesses and inflated costs offset price increases in the first half of the year, but predicted a sound performance </description><source>Reuters UK</source></item><item><title>India's GAIL wins US$1.2 bln contract for thermal power plant - Z...</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96442998&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T07:03:00</pubDate><description>Company: Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JPRKF) Indian state-run power equipment maker BHEL (BSE:500103) said it has bagged a Rs 56 billion (US$1.2 billion) contract from an arm of JAIPRAKASH ASSOCIATES (BSE:532532) </description><source>Zibb</source></item><item><title>The Marcus Corp. (MCS) Corporate Event Announcement Notice - Zibb...</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96439791&amp;Channel_ID=23&amp;Category_ID=167</link><pubDate>2009-11-25T02:59:00</pubDate><description>(Wall Street Horizon via COMTEX) -- Company: Marcus Corporation (THE) (MCS) The Marcus Corp. (MCS) Expected next earnings release: Announcement date: 12/17/2009 - Before Market Earnings Quarter: Q2 Announcement </description><source>Zibb</source></item></channel></rss>