ADVISORY/California May Face Power Shortage.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2000 TOPIC: Regulators report that California may be on the verge of a breakdown in its power system, and recently federal energy officials ordered Northwestern states to send emergency electricity to the struggling state, according to a story in the New York Times. Experts claim that California's problems may spread across the West, and fear the stress may cause energy shortages and higher power prices. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Mr. John L. Seelke, Jr., is Vice President, Consulting with New Energy Associates. Mr. Seelke has almost 30 years' experience in the numerous facets of the energy industry. He provides energy solutions to electric and gas utilities, energy consumers, and power project developers. His areas of expertise include: strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , power system planning and operations, generation site selection, distributed generation Distributed generation generates electricity from many small energy sources. It has also been called also called on-site generation, dispersed generation, embedded generation, decentralized generation, decentralized energy or analysis, demand-side The Demand side is a term used in economics to refer to a number of things:
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Professor James M. Griffin, of Texas A&M University, Department of Economics, is an expert on energy economics and the petroleum industry. 979/845-9950; 979/845-3211 (University PR Phone) Professor Michael Corradini, of University of Wisconsin Wisconsin, state, United States Wisconsin (wĭskŏn`sən, –sĭn), upper midwestern state of the United States. It is bounded by Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, from which it is divided by the Menominee , can provide expert commentary on the utility industry 608/265-2001; 608/262-1234 (University PR Phone) ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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