http://www.theenergydaily.com Energy Portal en-us 2008 Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:19:36 EST Luminant moved last week to settle contentious and long-running allegations that it manipulated Texas power markets in 2005, announcing a deal with the staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas under which it will pay $15 million but admit no wrongdoing... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/financial/1766.html Tue, 2 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST Amaranth Advisors LLC and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff have agreed to settle the agency’s enforcement case against the collapsed hedge fund and two of its traders over alleged natural gas market manipulation, FERC announced Tuesday in an... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/financial/1761.html Mon, 1 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST In what may signal a sale of assets or the company is in the works, Reliant Energy announced Wednesday it will not proceed with previously announced financing deals with GS Loan Partners or First Reserve meant to prop up the struggling merchant generator... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/financial/1765.html Mon, 1 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST Vattenfall AB is paying $55 million to acquire the Thanet offshore wind project—slated to be Britain’s biggest—from CRC Energy Jersey 1 Ltd.--a deal that promises to make the Swedish energy giant one of the largest... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/financial/1759.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST Constellation Energy announced Tuesday it has set a special meeting of shareholders for December 23 to vote on the buy-out offer by MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., with the companies hoping to close the transaction by the second quarter of 2009. The outcome... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/financial/1760.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST In yet another big-dollar energy trading scam, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and federal and local prosecutors Tuesday laid out an elaborate scheme to defraud the Bank of Montreal by a former natural gas trader for the bank and executives at... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/financial/1714.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST In a new hurdle for MidAmerican Energy Holdings Corp.’s $4.7 billion proposal to buy Constellation Energy Group, Maryland regulators said Friday that they will consider whether an “alternative transaction” would better serve... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/financial/1702.html Tue, 18 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST The chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, sketching out priorities for energy legislation next year, Monday called for an overhaul of the federal clean energy loan guarantee program, new tax incentives to encourage energy-efficient... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/financial/1704.html Tue, 18 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST In the first step towards what would be the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, the Interior Department, Oregon and California and PacifiCorp announced Thursday a non-binding agreement to remove four Klamath River dams that have been blamed for... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/financial/1691.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST In a potential straw in the wind indicating the Obama administration’s direction on a key energy initiative, a think tank run by Obama’s transition team manager released recommendations to Congress Friday effusively praising the Energy... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/financial/1685.html Thu, 13 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST