• 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

    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

    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

    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

    Why Do Energy Companies Trade?

    Companies that trade – and trade well – have an advantage over companies that don’t, but typically that advantage is more subtle ... Read Article

    The Third Wave of Convergence in Energy Markets

    Wave One: The Traditional Regulatory Framework The traditional regulatory framework created a convergence of energy prices with the costs of constructing, maintaining, ... Read Article

    The E-Market Imperative: Digital Transactions are Transforming the Energy Marketplace

    Although we can be certain that significant changes are coming to the energy marketplace, the crystal ball is cloudy as to the ... Read Article

    Profitability Risk Assessment at Nuclear Power Plants Under Electricity Deregulation

    Measuring Nuclear Power Plant Performance in the 1990s With competition in electricity markets, here is concern that reliability and safety at nuclear ... Read Article

    Emerging Trends in Wholesale Power Marketing and Trading

    Background The physical nature of electricity imposes market constraints quite unlike those seen in other energy markets. With today’s technology, electricity storage ... Read Article

    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

    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

    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

    Are you delivering the information needed to fuel growth for your enterprise?

    A recent study of 153 cross-industry chief financial officers (CFOs) reveals that commercialsectorCFOs (those in manufacturing, high tech, transportation, retail and communicationsenterprises) ... Read Article

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