Article: Power Players: Day & Zimmermann's Take On Power Market Future

By Mark Bridgers and Dan Tracey

In this interview, leaders from the Day & Zimmermann Power Group discuss how electric power generation firms are reacting to the current economic and political changes.

The power utility market has been long considered one of the most stable sectors of the economy. In providing the nation with the electricity necessary for growth, utilities are historically some of the largest capital and operations and maintenance (O&M) construction buyers. How will political uncertainty and financial turbulence affect the reliably stable power sector?

In order to answer that question and a host of others, Mark Bridgers and Dan Tracey of FMI talk with Mike McMahon, president, Day & Zimmermann Power Group; Bill Holloran, senior vice president of strategic planning, Power Group; and Brian Hartz, senior vice president of business development, Power Group. Together, they describe their perspectives on both opportunities and challenges faced by the power construction and O&M marketplace for 2009. They also shed light on how electric power generation firms, some of the largest single buyers of construction services, are reacting to the change in administration and economic fortunes.

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