Re: Power Plants

From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2000 - 09:19:06 MST


From: GBurch1@aol.com

>Beyond this, the new breed of energy merchants like Dynegy (am I
>proud of them or what?) are in the process of completely
>revolutionizing the whole *culture* of energy production in the
>world. They're completely undermining the old, slow, heavily
>regulated monopoly utility way of doing business and,
>in the process, have laid the groundwork for a new way of looking
>at the over-all energy grid and market so that ANY new energy
>sources can be plugged in at ANY level. Thus, as new,
>smaller-scale generation nodes become technologically feasible
>(think home- and neighborhood-scale fuel cell and solar plants),
>the "grid" (in the broadest sense, including not just the physical
>infrastructure, but also the market network) can accommodate them.
>This was unthinkable just ten years ago.

Thanks for another great post. Big data centers like the one I'm in
have these turbines for backup power.

I was specifically interested in who makes the engines your client
is using for possible investment purposes.

Brian

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