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That won't be easy. In the monopoly days, a utility simply passed its costs along to consumers. Now some utilities are saddled with high-cost plants, particularly nuclear facilities, just as lower-cost competitors are moving in. So high-cost outfits like Boston Edison and the New England Electric System in Massachusetts are selling off their generating plants to deliver power produced by other companies. Brash newcomers such as Enron Corp. of Houston, one of the country's largest distributors of natural gas, are buying megawatts of electricity on the open market and selling them around the country...
...this unbundled world, New England Electric and Boston Edison will become electric companies that no longer make electricity. Rowe intends to focus primarily on energy distribution; Thomas May, the ceo of Boston Edison, wants to become a force in an entirely different business, telecommunications. Boston Edison last year hooked up with a unit of C-TEC, a Princeton, New Jersey, company that provides integrated voice, data, video and high-speed Internet services. May plans to offer them first in Boston and then in the rest of New England. "The utility industry has been growing at 1% a year...
...last Friday) $23.9 billion. The 88% rise in Microsoft stock in 1996 meant he made on paper more than $10.9 billion, or about $30 million a day. That makes him the world's richest person, by far. But he's more than that. He has become the Edison and Ford of our age. A technologist turned entrepreneur, he embodies the digital...
...course, with so much information in the world, we may never realize what is known. Will we end up discovering things that other people have already discovered but we just didn't know? If things were like this when Thomas Edison was around, we might have had to tell him that the light bulb had already been invented and perhaps he should sit in on one of those "Learning how to use Hollis" sessions...if he could stay focused long enough...
AILING. SEYMOUR CRAY, 71, the Thomas Edison of the supercomputer; after suffering a broken neck and severe head injuries in a highway crash; in Colorado Springs, Colorado...