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...Chris Lehane $30,000 a month of taxpayer money to handle the p.r. crisis inside the energy crisis. That's despite the fact that Fabiani and Lehane--known as "masters of disaster" for their work at the White House during the Clinton scandals--are consultants to Southern California Edison, a utility at the eye of the storm...
...various models by Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and loads of other Guitar-zans. Paul told interviewer Frank Beacham that a lot of people don't know he plays a guitar. 'They think I am one.' He is something more: a genius of a tinkerer, with machines and music'the Edison...
...Such stopgaps are needed because the aging transmission lines that link U.S. regions make it difficult to move power swiftly to where it is needed. "If energy is the lifeblood [of the economy], transmission is the arteries and the veins," says Thomas Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute, which represents major power companies. But "congestion on the system has increased a tremendous amount," Kuhn notes, because the U.S. hasn't expanded its 2,000-mile grid of high-voltage lines in more than a decade...
...course, the whole scare may be a fake-out. For every expert with a panicky prediction, there's another with a view that things are under control. Eugene McGrath, chairman of Consolidated Edison in the New York City region, says his company has plenty of juice, and that electricity rates ought to be about the same as last summer--a good thing, given that rates spiked a year ago and stayed there. He's not predicting any power shortages in his area. Why, then, is New York racing to add several small plants by June...
...pursue long-term contracts but were rebuffed by the California Public Utilities Commission in March 1999. After finally granting limited permission later, the CPUC denied repeated petitions for expanded authority. Long-term contracting is how electricity markets operate everywhere else in the world. THOMAS J. HIGGINS Senior Vice President Edison International Rosemead, Calif...