• Goodbye AMR, Hello AMM

    Not long ago, the decision to pursue an automated meter reading (AMR) project was straightforward to describe and quantify. The business case ... Read Article

    Setting a Course for Growth

    Within the next few years, energy and utility companies will be operating in a more disaggregated, multinational industry. The demands of this ... Read Article

    Re-Evaluating a Core/Noncore Electric Market

    It is difficult to discuss or propose a core/noncore market structure without discussing California’s previous retail market restructuring effort. Many academics and ... Read Article

    Prioritizing Growth

    After years of cost cutting and risk management to bring companies “back to the basics” in response to the market anomalies, reliability ... Read Article

    Good Energy Policy = Balanced and Diversified

    Dear Secretary Bodman: Thank you for your outreach to democrats, former Energy secretaries and Western governors. I represent each of these categories ... Read Article

    Restructuring as Erosion

    Throughout 2005, five anniversaries will mark mileposts in public power’s pursuit to protect electricity consumers and strengthen the value of community ownership ... Read Article

    Toward a Capacity Demand Curve Market

    The market for electric generation facilities has passed through several stages in the transition to more competitive markets. Questions over the viability ... Read Article

    Understanding Selection Bias

    Selection bias can be defined as “a nonrandom participation in a program offer leading to damaging financial results.” It can affect the ... Read Article

    Investing in Renewable Energy

    For the first 50 years following the passage of the Depression-era Public Utilities Holding Company Act, governmental regulation of the electric utility ... Read Article

    The Changing Face of Utility M&A

    Since the enactment of the National Energy Policy Act of 1992, there have been approximately 90 announced mergers between, or acquisitions of, ... Read Article

    Using the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

    Who would have predicted that significant help in managing operational risks would come from such an unlikely source: Section 404 of the ... Read Article

    Asset Management: Practical Path to Success

    The term asset management has taken center stage for most utility transmission and distribution, primarily because of cost pressures resulting from limited ... Read Article

    Collections Best Practice

    Utility bad debt is increasing year-on-year according to market research group Chartwell in its 2004 report, Credit and Collections in the Utility ... Read Article

    Defining Customer Valuation

    Most utilities view their interactions with customers – mainly monthly billing and payment – as highly routine, with neither party giving a ... Read Article

    The Hydrogen Economy

    The expression “hydrogen economy” is appearing more and more frequently in the headlines and on the bookstands. As recently as February 2005 ... Read Article

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