Calpine vs. Pacific Gas & Electric

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This paper discusses the Calpine Company, an independent power producer that was established in 2002, comparing it to the Pacific Gas and Electric company. The paper reviews these two companies from an organizational business perspective.

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Calpine
Pacific Gas and Electric

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"In order to develop its business and manage the risk, the company has extended its activities, providing also commodity investment optimization, gas aggregation and arbitrage, logistics and settlement, risk management and energy management consulting. This creases the basis for more profit but also increases the costs related to the staff know how, to provide the appropriate infrastructure and all the cost incurred to the development of new projects (marketing plans, management administration, new logistics, etc). This may be a partially explanation of the overall increase in revenues of 4% (9.2 billion dollars) for the fiscal year 2005. To sustain that fragile figure of the revenue for the year 2005, it can be added that the energy market is a stable and a constant one, with a little increase of the market share during the time (the rate of the consumption is almost constant and it is not very easy to be influenced). "

Sample of Sources Used:

• http://www.calpine.com/about/bus_unit.asp;
• http://www.pge.com/about_us/company-profile/about_pge/;
• http://biz.yahoo.com/e/050331/cnp10-k.html;
• http://investor.pgecorp.com/investors/analyst_info/marketguide.cmf.

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