Chief executives of utilities that support stronger standards for coal-fired plants, including Baltimore-based Constellation Energy Group Inc.
Warren Buffett beat out other buyers for Constellation Energy because he didn't have to hem and haw about financing.
Other competitors in the utilities sector include: American Electric (AEP), Southern Company (SO), and Constellation Energy (CEG).
Verizon also completed new agreements with a range of multinational corporations, including Constellation Energy, Epsilon, Masco Corp. and PHH Corp.
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Other competitors in the utilities sector include: Entergy (ETR), El Paso Electric Company (EE), and Constellation Energy (CEG).
It's a consortium of companies, including GridPoint, Constellation Energy and General Electric that works in partnership with the Department of Energy.
Constellation Energy ( CEG) has been under a cloud for some time because of the controversy over its merger with Exelon.
The plant remained stable at 100% of capacity, said Mark Sullivan, a spokesman with Constellation Energy Nuclear Group LLC, which owns the plant.
"We are not worried about service being shut down, " says BethPerlmanBeth Perlman , CIO of Constellation Energy Group and another BlackBerry fan.
Constellation Energy last year put a 1.9 gigawatt nuclear plant project in Maryland on hold because it could not come to terms with the Department of Energy on a loan guarantee.
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The three other finalists for that remaining money are NRG Energy, which is hoping to build two reactors in Texas, the South Carolina utility SCANA, and Constellation Energy which is hoping to build a reactor in Maryland.
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In addition to those demand response dispatches, Constellation Energy was providing real-time market price information to many of its customers, thus giving them information on the value of curtailing energy use during the heat wave when power prices jumped.
In addition, the electric utility lobby in Washington is extraordinarily powerful, and the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), which represents public utility heavyweights like Edison International, Exelon and Constellation Energy Group, is fully behind the department's announcement of "national interest" zones.
"The federal government could step in after the fact and disrupt activity with the states, even with the best of intentions, " says Dan Riedinger, spokesman for industry group Edison Electric Institute, which represents investor-owned utilities such as Constellation Energy Group and DTE Energy.
Companies the FERC accuses of gaming include Sempra Energy (nyse: SRE - news - people ), Canadian provincial utility BC Hydro, Avista (nyse: AVA - news - people ), American Electric Power (nyse: AEP - news - people ), Duke Energy (nyse: DUK - news - people ), Mirant (nyse: MIR - news - people ), Dynegy (nyse: DYN - news - people ), Calpine (nyse: CPN - news - people ), Reliant, Williams Cos. (nyse: WMB - news - people ) and Constellation Energy Group (nyse: CEG - news - people ).
Big power marketer Constellation New Energy has a demand-response program under way.
The Center for American Progress recently predicted that a constellation of emerging trends would converge around the concept of networked energy and, the process, create a fundamentally new engineering model for managing energy.
By last September, though, fierce competition in deregulated energy markets had sent the share prices of both Orion and Constellation down to half their peaks.
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