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Keeping Cool: July 21, 2008
Last week, I accompanied a handful of adult leaders and three-dozen boys of varying ages to scout camp in the Virginia mountains. The first day’s weather was unexpectedly cool and rainy. As the week progressed, however, the days were increasingly hot and dusty. Not surprising, tempers rose accordingly, calming only with the oncoming chill of night and the eternal fascination of a raging campfire.
As it turned out, my experience at camp is pretty much a perfect more...
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Transformational Technologies
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Never confuse transformational technology with a winning stock. Since Utility Forecaster’s inception, dozens of new technologies have transformed the way essential services are delivered, from fiber optics and advanced meters to the iPhone and low-cost wind power.
Each time a new one hit the scene, upstarts tried to ride it past the industry incumbents.
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Intro Article
Utility averages are practically flat for the first half of 2008, an island of calm in an otherwise turbulent year.
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UF Portfolios
Everybody loves a winner. In fact, not letting go of gains from time to time is one of the prime mistakes investors make.
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Utility Beat
Passing It On
According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, consumers were happier with their power company in the first quarter of 2008 than airlines, low-rent hotels and most fast-food restaurants.
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Dividend Watch List
Dominion Energy Trust will pay a slightly higher distribution this quarter because of a steep jump in natural gas prices.
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Growth Spotlight
Size is strength in profitable, competitive communications.
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Income Spotlight
The same opportunity rarely knocks more than once, but it hasn’t had to for global power producer AES Corp. After rapidly growing from inception in October 1981, the company nearly imploded in 2002 as its multinational empire grew unwieldy and challenged a mountain of debt.
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