Essays Tagged: "energy market"
ENRON and PGE (Portland General Electric)
plan was to cannibalize PGE, in particular its hydropower, which Enron would sell into California's energy market. Enron recruited the noted environmental utility guru, Ralph Cavanagh of the Natural R ... nagh of the Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC) to do their bidding. He also has ties to the Energy Foundation, a San Francisco-based coalition of environmental groups.(A graduate of Yale Unive ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Ethical analysis of Enron's collapse
offices around the globe was the seventh largest company in America and one of the world's largest energy, commodities and Services Company. Before its bankruptcy, it marketed electricity and natural ... ies and Services Company. Before its bankruptcy, it marketed electricity and natural gas, delivered energy and other physical commodities, and provided financial and risk management services to custom ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
A Case Study - Retail Electric Provider Bankruptcies
A Case Study - Retail Electric Provider BankruptciesTexas Commercial Energy (the "Company" or "TCE") filed for bankruptcyprotection on March 6, 2003 in the Southern Dist ... ills as they came due. At the time of thebankruptcy, TCE was purchasing almost its entire supply of energy on ERCOT's"Balancing Energy" market as opposed to locking in a steady supply of power at a fi ... rlyhedge its power supply against price fluctuations in the market. ERCOT established the"Balancing Energy" market as a mechanism to allow REP's to buy and sell smallamounts of electricity for immedia ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Sarbox effect on accounting litigation
rm". (Green, 2004) One of the biggest and most publicized scandals during this time was an American energy group based out of Texas named Enron. Before its bankruptcy in late 2001, Enron employed arou ... nnual return was $40, $57.7 and $88.6 percent respectively, compared to the S&P 500 and S&P energy market indexes. (Unhappy Returns, n.d)In October of 2001, Enron reported a $638 million third ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting
Enron's Code of Ethics
as in the country. The company was listed as the fifth largest of the fortune 500 companies. As the energy market declined at the end of the 1990's more of their financial and accounting processes cam ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
To what extent was the policy of deregulation in the energy market responsible for the California electricity crisis?
I chose to investigate for this extended essay was the manipulation of the deregulated Californian energy market by the Enron Corporation. This extended essay focuses on the economic aspect of market ... the Enron Corporation. This extended essay focuses on the economic aspect of market failure in the energy market due to the deregulation and consequent manipulation of the market rather than the busi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies