Top Floor Power

… is the website for Peter Maloney, a business writer, editor and journalist specializing in the electric power industry and finance, including regulation and policy, project development, project finance and business strategy. He also has covered banking and equity markets. Freelance clients include major law firms and consulting companies, as well as a variety of mainstream and trade publications. Behind the scenes TFP has been working as a guest editor and ghost writer and can help fill your needs. Like electricity, those efforts are not visible, but they are real. Contact TFP if you need help crafting white papers, strategies, and other content needs.

About TFP

Top Floor Power is a website and blog created by Peter Maloney to cover the news and ideas shaping the evolution of the electric power industry. The blog aims to give an accurate and unbiased account of the major trends in the industry as companies and policy makers struggle to balance the competing demands of regulation and competition and of reliability and profits. Read more . . .

Oeuvre Electrical

Oeuvre electrical is a small library of my work stretching back to 2004 and includes published (N.B. copyrighted) articles from Electric Power Daily, Electric Utility Week, Global Power Report, and Megawatt Daily, as well as some freelance work from The New York Times. There are also television interviews on power sector new stories taped with Bill Loveless and Chris Newkumet, hosts of Platts Energy Week, and a sampling of podcasts and presentations I have given at a variety of conferences and venues. Read more . . .

Ars Electrica

Ars Electrica is the first in a series of sidebars on lighter, more entertaining topics related to electric power and its place in our world. The first will be a series on artists who use electricity to make their art or use some aspect of the electric power industry as their subject. Who knew?

About Peter Maloney

Peter Maloney brings three decades of experience covering the power industry to Top Floor Power. Having earned many stock market scoops during the go-go 80s for Institutional Investor’s Portfolio Letter and winning a Jesse H. Neal award for editorial excellence at United States Banker, his attention turned to the power industry when western interests flooded into Eastern Europe. Read more . . .

More Fodder for the Death Spiral

Peter Maloney March 11, 2015 March 20, 2015

The Energy Information Agency’s recently released numbers on new generation additions for 2014 illustrate a worrisome trend for electric utilities. Solar power continues to make inroads into the nation’s generation base. Solar power is still relatively miniscule with only about 10,000 megawatts of the overall 1 million megawatts of installed…

AEP Plays the Regulatory Card

Peter Maloney February 11, 2015 March 20, 2015

American Electric Power is playing the regulatory card in Ohio. The news broke last month that AEP has hired Goldman Sachs to explore the possibility of selling its fleet of Ohio power plants, but the bigger surprise may come as early as April when the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio…

Welcome to Top Floor Power

Peter Maloney January 11, 2015 March 20, 2015

Like many others, when I left college I wanted a real world adventure. My choice was bicycling across country. Aiming for experience not speed, I zigzagged across the continent, first heading south to the Smoky Mountains then back north and west across the plains and the Rockies before I pedaled…

50% Renewables? California Is Almost There

Going to the MATS for Mercury

More Fodder for the Death Spiral

AEP Plays the Regulatory Card

Top Floor Power

About TFP

Oeuvre Electrical

Ars Electrica

About Peter Maloney

More Fodder for the Death Spiral

AEP Plays the Regulatory Card

Welcome to Top Floor Power