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utilities · sector mood
2002
year mood
-0.25
· -0.35 to +0.00 across 12 mo
Monthly mood
bearish −1
+1 bullish
month values ▾
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -0.30 | -0.30 | -0.25 | -0.25 | -0.30 | -0.30 | -0.35 | -0.30 | -0.30 | +0.00 | -0.20 | -0.20 |
Merchant/IPP credit crisis, NRG, Dynegy, Mirant collapse
How this mood is scored ▾
Each day the model reads that day's news for the sector and asks, as someone who owns assets or
makes their living in it: how am I feeling this month, and why?
The month's mood is that running answer, tied to the specific events driving it (the story shown
above). It leans on trusted, higher-impact reporting, and on the prior month when a month is
quiet, so one loud headline can't swing it. The read updates daily through
the month; once a month ends, its mood is locked.
This year is read live from the news the pipeline actually collected (hover a bar for its story count).
· last computed Jul 11, 2026
Top utilities stories of 2002
Oct
Dynegy exits energy trading as the post-Enron merchant power sector collapses
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On October 16, 2002, Dynegy shut down its once-dominant wholesale energy-trading business and cut about 14% of its staff to conserve cash, with its chief operating officer resigning the same day. The move capped a year in which Enron's collapse, California-crisis fallout, and 'round-trip' wash-trade scandals gutted the merchant power sector: Dynegy's stock lost more than 90% of its value in 2002, and peers such as Williams, Mirant, Aquila, and Reliant were downgraded to junk.