Tag Archives: WSJ

Exelon Corp announced this week that it will close the infamous Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant in 2019 unless it receives government assistance.  (See press release here.  Wall Street Journal article can be found here.)  We have seen this story in the past with other nuclear plants.�

Page B9 of today's Wall Street Journal discussed natural gas and how its role in electricity generation has changed over the last ten years.  (See here.) The article made the comment that in the past "...energy traders believed using natural gas to deliver electricity was akin to bringing Dom Peri

Page B1 of today's Wall Street Journal discussed the possibility of Calpine putting itself up for sale.  The news broke yesterday and the stock rose 18%.  You can see the article here. Calpine, and all of the other IPPs, have definitely been out of favor with the stock market.  The WSJ article

Page B1 of today's Wall Street Journal (see here) had a large article about big proposed long distance power line projects.  As discussed in the article, it can take an extremely long time to get these types of projects done, even though they are often planned for the expansion of "green" energy so

On Monday there was an article on page B1 in the Wall Street Journal discussing California's plans for increasing its use of renewable energy. (see here)  There were a number of different issues discussed in the article.  California's goal is to have 50% of it power be generated by renewable resou

Last weekend's Wall Street Journal had a big headline on page B10, discussing utility stock's big move last week.  The S&P 500 utilities were up about 4% last week, which was the group's best weekly move since July.  The article attributed the rise to falling interest rates, but this is earnin

There was a front page story in today's Wall Street Journal (see here), discussing the pressures sell-side analysts face to give positive ratings to the companies  they follow.  Analysts compensation is often influenced by the number of management meetings they can arrange for clients.  The artic

Page B1 of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (online version here) and page 28 of the December 26 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek (online version here) contained articles discussing the difficulties US nuclear generators are having in today's low cost natural gas environment.  The WSJ article shows