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New Challenges for Operating the Utility Enterprise

Basic Listing
Jun 21, 2012
Event Start Time (Eastern Time): 
12:00 PM
Venue: 
Your Office
City: 
Virtual Event
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/253875720 [1]
Price: 
$0.00 USD
Organizer Information
Company: 
Energy Central
Person to Contact: 
Energy Central
Email Address: 
service@energycentral.com [2]
Phone: 
303-782-5510
Posting Status: 
Accepted
Featured Event Status: 
Upgraded
Featured Event Information
Uncertainty haunts the United States utility industry: Natural-gas prices have plummeted, environmental regulations are throttling coal-fired power, and nuclear power's viability is being questioned in the wake of the Japanese nuclear disaster and the termination of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

The Great Recession has frozen retirement plans for many workers, and when the ice breaks, there will be significant turnover in the work force. The Congress, ideologically deadlocked, has not passed a national energy policy, so utility executives are forced to improvise and make strategic decisions with little assurance that they will fit the circumstances that eventually develo