• E-Energy: The Impact of the Internet on the Energy Industry

    Introduction Inconsistent regulations across states and lack of standards for independent energy transactions have created significant challenges and inefficiencies for the key ... Read Article

    So Now You’re In-Charge of an Unregulated Generation Company

    You’ve probably just been named to head an acquired portfolio of generation assets. Or maybe you’re one of the visionaries who “led” ... Read Article

    A New Paradigm for Customer Care and Service in a Deregulated Energy Market

    Utilities have no experience with competition or strategies for winning customers when primarily dealing with a product like electricity or natural gas. ... Read Article

    Global Trends in — and the Practical Effects of — Liberalization and Other Regulatory Approaches

    It is important to start by clarifying what is meant by my use of the term “liberalization.” To “liberalize” has a number ... Read Article

    How Did We Get Here?

    For eight decades, the electricity supply industry and its customers enjoyed the benefits of increasing economies of scale. Electric utilities, people reasoned, ... Read Article

    Report from New England: Lessons Learned on the Road to Competition

    This white paper reviews the restructuring experiences in three New England states – Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine – and their trials ... Read Article

    The Global Power Company of the Future

    The initial stages of the liberalization process currently underway across parts of the globe see individual countries separating out the traditional monopoly ... Read Article

    The Global Utility: The Experience from an Acquisition Made in the United States by a Foreign Utility

    Our story starts in 1991. After 40 years of government ownership, the U.K. electricity industry began to privatize in 1990. England and ... Read Article

    Preface from PricewaterhouseCoopers

    We are delighted that you are about to read these pages, which we are confident will give you unique and timely insights ... Read Article

    e-business in a Competitive Utility Industry: Managing to Become an e-business

    Introduction The restructuring of the utilities industry is now a global phenomenon. Many utility companies are recasting business strategies to meet the ... Read Article

    Growth Strategies for Energy Companies

    The result of all of this? Energy companies must develop coherent strategies for sustainable growth. To help guide that process, this white ... Read Article

    Information Technology and the New Energy Industry Model

    For the past 50 years, the utility industry landscape has been dominated by the vertically-integrated business model, with companies owning and operating ... Read Article

    The Innovation Imperative

    The Value of Innovation As described by Peter Drucker, innovation refers to the function of entrepreneurship, the means by which new wealth-producing ... Read Article

    Public Water Suppliers Look to Privatization

    New forces are reshaping the responsibilities of water and wastewater utilities. Although they come in different forms, water utilities conventionally serve the ... Read Article

    Strategic Mergers and Acquisitions in the Utilities Industry

    Do utilities really know what they are doing, or are they just following the trend? What do the transactions say about the ... Read Article

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