CAT Database Updated With 2,300 Sites for the Power Utility Industry.

Business/Energy Editors

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 1, 2000

Competitive Analysis Technologies today announced the release of "Power Utilities on the Internet" - Third Quarter 2000 with more than 2,300 Internet Web pages devoted to the worldwide electrical generation and gas distribution industry. To fit the unique needs of the power industry, this directory contains 16 categories from electrical utilities, gas distribution, and power brokers to fuel and power pricing, and targeted publications of specific interest to personnel in the power industry.

"Power Utilities on the Internet" provides users with immediate access to the Web sites of 854 electric utility and gas distribution companies (1st Rochdale Cooperative to Yampa Valley Electric Association and AGL Resources to York County Natural Gas Authority), 697 service and supporting companies (ABB Alstom Power to Ziff Energy), 198 industry associations (Alliance for Affordable Energy to World Energy Efficiency Association), 177 worldwide government agencies, 83 publications (Applied Derivatives Trading to World Energy Magazine), and 42 sites with electricity, coal and gas pricing information.

"We do the searching, cataloguing and maintenance of the database to free utility industry personnel to better perform their jobs," said Bill Crowley, editor of the publication. "Time is important, so we keep the utilities database up to date with regard to accuracy and currency of the sites. That means no `file not found' occurrences for our users. All the sites are profiled, so users know what to expect before they go there."

Clients of "Power Utilities on the Internet" include Kansas City Power & Light, Global Power, Coral Energy, Planalytics, Navigant Consulting, Public Utilities Fortnightly, GE Energy Services, HESI, PCI Energy Services and others.

Updates are issued every 90 days with identifications of new sites and changes in site locations. "Power Utilities on the Internet" is the fourth in the series of industry-specific databases published by Competitive Analysis Technologies. Other databases include "Oil and Gas on the Internet - Upstream and Downstream" and "Organic and Petrochemicals on the Internet." Users refer to these directories as "a Yahoo! for the industry."

All databases are available as hard copy directories or in electronic format for simple "drop-in" use on corporate Intranets to be shared across the corporate spectrum. Subscribers of the SageMaker(R) Enterprise Information Portal may also access the electronic versions of these databases. Free trial evaluations are available on SageMaker(R), as are Intranet demo disks.

CATSites(R) benchmark database, "Oil and Gas on the Internet," is now on the desktops of more than 20,000 personnel in the oil and gas industry including those of Shell Oil, Baker Hughes Inc., Saudi Aramco, Conoco, Kerr-McGee, Ranger Oil, PetroTrin and others.

For more information, or to place an order, visit the Competitive Analysis Technologies Web site at http://www.catsites.com/publications.html or contact CAT at 281/890-8255; fax [phone]; e-mail [e-mail].