or additional permissions. ENRON CORPORATION’S WEATHER DERIVATIVES (A) Everybody talks about the weather‚ but nobody does anything about it.1 In October 2000‚ Mary Watts‚ the chief financial officer of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW)‚ a utility servicing the Pacific Northwest region of the United States‚ reviewed the financial plan for PNW’s 2000–01 forthcoming winter season. Winter temperatures affected the firm’s revenues: the colder the season‚ the greater the electricity usage. She
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Q1. As per the provided information the Gas Utility companies pays a base commodity charge of $.3359 plus a peak usage demand of charge that is $4.63 per Mcf multiplied by the total demand during the maximum take day in the last 12 months which is 240 in this case. The cost per MCF can be derived by the below formula (Commodity Base Charge * Total Demand) + (Peak Usage Demand Charge* High Peak in 1 day* months in year) This will translate into ($ 0.3359*30‚700‚000 Mcf)+ ($ 4.63*240*12) = $ 23
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Government Privatization History‚ Examples‚ and Issues Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability 703 Stratton Office Building Springfield‚ Illinois 62706 October 2006 Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability COMMISSION CO-CHAIRMEN Senator Jeffrey M. Schoenberg Representative Terry R. Parke SENATE HOUSE Don Harmon Christine Radogno Steven Rauschenberger David Syverson Donne Trotter Mark H. Beaubien‚ Jr. Frank Mautino Robert Molaro Richard Myers Elaine Nekritz EXECUTIVE
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judicial scrutiny under the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court decided that Ms. Jackson did not have a case because her arguments showed that Metropolitan was a heavily regulated‚ privately owned utility company that elected to terminate services as a manner in which under the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission it was permissible under state law for them to do that. The Supreme Court did not find that Metropolitan was connected with the state of Pennsylvania for purposes of the 14th Amendment
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fanwar@onkhura.com Abstract The water and sanitation sector in Karachi (the largest city in Pakistan with an estimated population of about 16 million) is faced with a crisis of governance. The Karachi Water & Sewerage Board – a monopoly public water utility is similarly challenged with operations becoming technically deficient and financially non-viable. Recently‚ the KW&SB management has initiated a series of reforms in areas such as revenue and operational management and improving customer services
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Industrial regulations are those regulations in which “the government commissions regulate the price charged by natural monopolists”. (McConnell & Brue‚ 2008‚ p. 382) These regulations exist to ensure that natural monopolies are not charging consumers monopoly prices which in turn hurt the consumers as well as society as a whole. Industrial regulations affect the market by its regulation of the natural monopolies which in turn protects the markets consumers. These regulations also allow for
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A. Introduction Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development‚ improvement‚ implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people‚ money‚ knowledge‚ information‚ equipment‚ energy‚ materials‚ analysis and synthesis‚ as well as the mathematical‚ physical and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering design to specify‚ predict‚ and evaluate the results to be
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Government and Private Organisations are partners in public services delivery. We will think about whether or not Government is the best organisation to provide public services‚ or the private or either the non-profit sector by giving the merits and the demerits of each of them. Key Words Public Service is a service provided by government or local government. Private Service provider is a private service provided by private business. Example rail transport is now privately run in most countries with
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CHAPTER I THE PROJECT AND ITS BACKGROUND 1.1 Introduction As the world progresses on in this never ending chase for a time and wealth‚ it is undeniable that science has made astounding developments. Technology and computers are everywhere. Today‚ they are becoming the foundation of any development of society. The computer system is not a simple machine. It is like a very modern and highly complex calculator. It can do all the functions at a speedy rate and also helps us to search and progress
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of the battle the Metis and First Nations were out of ammunition. They started firing stones and nails from their rifles. Middleton’s troops invaded the rifle pits and the battle was over. There were over 25 dead from both sides Cut Knife Hill The Battle of Cut Knife Hill occurred on May 2nd. Colonel Otter men located Chief Poundmaker and about 200 followers. Otter had planned to make a surprise attack however‚ word of the attack spread and the Cree were ready for them. The Cree managed to drive
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