• Challenges of Demand Response and Distributed Generation

    Project Introduction and Motivation Electricity system challenges have emerged in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula that make it an ideal laboratory for advanced intelligent ... Read Article

    The Three Pillars of Energy Policy

    Successful energy policy is about trade-offs between different and divergent agendas that must somehow be reconciled. Energy policy, whether in the U.K., ... Read Article

    Implementing the Right Network for the Smart Grid: Critical Infrastructure Determines Long-Term Strategy

    Energy Conservation. Energy Efficiency. Go Green. Clean Tech. Smart Grid. The utility industry has enacted a number of initiatives with a common ... Read Article

    The Water Industry in Britain and Europe: Issues for 2006 and Beyond

    Executive Summary Europe’s water industry is grappling with six major issues in 2006 that present often-conflicting interests and that may need new ... Read Article

    INTERVIEW: Frank Hoss

    Energy & Utilities: From your perspective, what is the intelligent grid? Frank Hoss: The intelligent grid focuses primarily on the efficient, reliable ... Read Article

    Issues Affecting the Electricity Transmission and Distribution System in North America

    Executive Summary After more than two decades of underinvestment, the North American electricity delivery infrastructure is struggling to meet today’s changing and ... Read Article

    Locking the Door Against Cybersecurity Attacks

    Situation Overview The biggest threat today to the transmission and distribution (T&D) business’ cybersecurity is not necessarily a virus, worm or terrorist. ... Read Article

    The Key to Economic Expansion in Utilities

    Today’s forces driving the global energy and utility market have never been more acute. Consumption increases and volatile fuel costs coupled with ... Read Article

    Critical Call – The Emerging Criticality of Cellular Services

    The advancements in cellular services that have been witnessed in recent years have had a dramatic effect on the decision-making processes of ... Read Article

    Harnessing the Power of the Intelligent Grid to Innovate / Enhance Efficiency and Reliability of Utility

    The Challenge The electric power infrastructure is a foundation of American prosperity and one of the key elements of the digital economy ... Read Article

    Understanding and Driving Consumer Adoption of E-Bills

    This is an excerpt. To read this paper in it’s entirety: Understanding and Driving Consumer Adoption of E-Bills Introduction Online bill payment ... Read Article

    Audit Committees Step Up Risk Oversight

    When the audit committee of a publicly traded company sits down to meet, what’s on the agenda? What issues are considered most ... Read Article

    Best Practices in Distribution Asset and Work Management

    Utilities face escalating operational expenses due to rising fuel costs and increasing investment costs for environmental regulation while simultaneously being limited in ... Read Article

    The Liability of Cost Cutting: A CEO’s New Challenge

    When financial results don’t meet expectations, senior executives face five dreaded words that have become much too common: “We need to cut ... Read Article

    Leveraging Operational Systems Assets to Realize Their Full Value

    The electric utility industry finds itself confronted by a dynamic regulatory and market environment that is necessitating changes at all levels of ... Read Article
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