<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>   <rss version="2.0">   <channel>        <title>Platts News: Latest Electric Power Headlines from Platts.com</title>           		<link>http://www.platts.com?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>		<description>Electric Power Headlines from Platts.com: Platts, a Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), the world's leading provider of energy information.</description>		<language>en-US</language>		<copyright>Copyright &#169; 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.          http://www.mcgraw-hill.com</copyright>				<category>Latest Electric Power Headlines</category>		<image>			<url>http://www.platts.com/images/latest_electric power_headlines_title.gif</url>			 <title>Latest Electric Power Headlines</title>			<link>http://www.platts.com?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>		</image>		<managingEditor>webeditor@platts.com</managingEditor>		<webMaster>webeditor@platts.com</webMaster>		<pubDate> 4 Jul 2009 02:15:19 GMT</pubDate>                                		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[French carbon tax should target consumed energy: HSBC]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[London (Platts) -- 3Jul2009 -- France's yet to be introduced carbon tax should target energy consumption
rather than the carbon content of final products, HSBC France's chief
economist said Friday. 

     HSBC's Mathilde Lemoine, one...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8683672.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Electric Power</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8683672.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[Russian agency says MOL-Russneft JV violating license: report]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Moscow (Platts) -- 3Jul2009 -- Russia's environmental authorities have accused a joint venture between
Hungary's MOL and Russia's Russneft, which is developing a major field in West
Siberia, of violating license terms on the utilization...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8683523.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Electric Power</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8683523.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[US DOE announces $59 million in provisional loan guarantees]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Washington (Platts) -- 2Jul2009 -- The US Department of Energy on Thursday announced two provisional loan
guarantees worth $59 million, the first to be offered under the economic
stimulus package passed by Congress earlier in 2009.

  ...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8682991.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Electric Power</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8682991.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[Exelon would look to sell NRG Energy's Louisiana, overseas plants]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Washington (Platts) -- 2Jul2009 -- Exelon, which earlier on Thursday raised its offer to buy NRG Energy,
said it would look to sell the 2,410 MW of capacity NRG owns in Louisiana
along with the merchant generator's foreign holdings after...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8680664.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Electric Power</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8680664.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[European Energy Exchange June electricity volumes dip 27% on year]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[London (Platts) -- 2Jul2009 -- Electricity volumes traded on the European Energy Exchange dropped 27%
year on year in June, falling to 93.3 TWh from 127.6 TWh, the Germany-based
EEX said in a statement Thursday.  

     Trading volumes...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8680147.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Electric Power</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8680147.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[UK atomic agency sale expected by October, Dounreay bid planned]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Manchester (Platts) -- 2Jul2009 -- The UK Atomic Energy Authority expects the sale of its commercial arm to
be completed by the end of September, chief executive officer Norman Harrison
said.

     Harrison also told delegates at a decommissioning...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8679832.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Electric Power</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8679832.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[US DOE awards $408 mil in stimulus cash to CCS projects]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Washington (Platts) -- 1Jul2009 -- The US Department of Energy on Wednesday said it had awarded $408 million
in economic stimulus funding to two carbon capture and storage projects in
North Dakota and California.

     The funding comes...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/6447361.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Electric Power</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/6447361.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[EIB lends GBP360 million to UK's National Grid for gas upgrades]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Brussels (Platts) -- 1Jul2009 -- The European Investment Bank has agreed to lend British power and gas
grid operator National Grid GBP360 million ($505 million) to support upgrading
and extending its four gas distribution grids in England,...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8676261.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Electric Power</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8676261.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[PATH line is not needed to maintain PJM reliability: Sierra Club]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Birmingham, Alabama (Platts) -- 30Jun2009 -- The Sierra Club said Monday that plans to build a $1.9-billion power line
from West Virginia to Maryland would adversely affect the stability and
reliability of the grid. 

     The environmental organization...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/6446117.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Electric Power</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/6446117.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[US Department of Energy to fund $32 mil in hydropower upgrades]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Washington (Platts) -- 30Jun2009 -- The US Department of Energy intends to spend $32 million in economic
stimulus funds to upgrade existing US hydropower facilities, it said Tuesday.

     &quot;There's no one solution to the energy crisis, but...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/6446114.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Electric Power</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/6446114.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[Germany's RWE realigns grid business to meet EU unbundling rules]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[London (Platts) -- 30Jun2009 -- A re-branded RWE transmission grid business, Amprion, is to report to the
CEO's division, allowing the German power utility to fulfill network
unbundling requirements set down in the European Union's third...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8672552.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Electric Power</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/8672552.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[US EPA sets hourly standard for nitrogen dioxide emissions]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Washington (Platts) -- 29Jun2009 -- A US Environmental Protection Agency proposal released Monday set the
first-ever hourly national air quality standard (NAAQS) for nitrogen dioxide
at between 80 parts per billion and 100 ppb. The standard...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/6444921.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Electric Power</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/6444921.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[Interior to speed solar projects on federal lands in western US]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Washington (Platts) -- 29Jun2009 -- The US Department of Interior will to examine 670,000 acres of public
land across six Western states for the &quot;fast-tracking&quot; of solar energy
projects, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday.

    ...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/6444919.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Electric Power</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/6444919.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[US Supreme Court won't hear ruling blocking Illinois coal plant]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Washington (Platts) -- 29Jun2009 -- The US Supreme Court on Monday said it would not hear a power plant
developer's appeal of a lower court ruling that blocked it from building a
534-MW coal-fired plant in southern Illinois.

     A US appeals...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/6444918.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Electric Power</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Electric Power/News/6444918.xml?src=Electric Powerrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                          </channel></rss>	