Mar 2001

Plans for significant growth in US gas-fired power generation may come unstuck over concerns about insufficient gas transmission capacity.

Increasingly tough environmental legislation is putting pressure on coal-fired generators. But does this really mean that old king coal will finally be dethroned in the world’s energy markets?

Kenya has long been one of the best hopes for economic development and stable government in Africa. Recent efforts towards private sector investment in the power industry, though challenging, appear to be on the right track. By Peter F. McEwan WÄRTSILÄ NSD CORPORATION

Whatever the outcome of the rescheduled talks in Bonn at COP 6, it is undeniable that demands for new renewable energy generation is going to be extensive in the next 10 years By Jonathan Johns ernst and young

Capacity on the 2000 MW cross-channel connection between Britain and France is now being auctioned off. For the first time, electricity can be traded between the UK and continental Europe By L. David Smith

Weather derivatives have been in existence since 1997, they were conceived as a means of hedging falls in volume – not price risk By Ross McIntyre ENRON CORP

ABB believes it is not being premature in its radical shift from large centralised plant to small distributed generation and renewables By Stephen Burgin ABB