White Papers Becoming an On-Demand Utilityby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on May 15, 2006 A switch is flipped, and there is light. A knob is turned, and there is heat. What industry can be more on demand than energy utilities? Becoming an … Read Article Asset Management Do You Know Your Risk?by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on May 15, 2006 Asset management is the focus for most utilities, primarily because of cost pressures resulting from the limited availability of capital and O&M funds, and from customer/regulatory pressure to … Read Article Business Transformation Outsourcings Benefitsby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on May 15, 2006 Energy and utility industry executives are increasingly called upon to improve service levels, increase responsiveness and optimize their cost structure. In short, executives in these industries, as well … Read Article How to Optimize Reliability in Utility Networksby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on May 15, 2006 While reliability is perhaps one of the most watched performance indicators in the utilities industry today, improvement efforts are often based on best practices or trial and error. … Read Article Update on Broadband Over Power Linesby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on May 15, 2006 Electric distribution utilities have come under increasing pressure to find innovative ways to improve efficiency and generate new revenue. With the deregulation of the electric power industry, separation … Read Article Let''s Take A Closer Look at Generation Operational Excellenceby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on May 15, 2006 Accelerating world demand for energy, coupled with recent natural disasters, is driving and will continue to drive, gas, oil, coal and nuclear fuel prices to unprecedented levels. Increasing … Read Article Re-Evaluating a Core/Noncore Electric Marketby mThink on May 23, 2005 It is difficult to discuss or propose a core/noncore market structure without discussing Californias previous retail market restructuring effort. Many academics and others have written papers pointing out … Read Article Toward Intelligent Gridsby mThink on May 23, 2005 The promise of the intelligent energy grid remains elusive; however, a steady wave of innovation in communication and information technologies, combined with advancement in emerging energy technologies, is … Read Article Prioritizing Growthby mThink on May 23, 2005 After years of cost cutting and risk management to bring companies back to the basics in response to the market anomalies, reliability issues and regulatory uncertainty of the … Read Article Transforming Communication Infrastructureby mThink on May 23, 2005 For a long time the standard point-to-point analog line to a substation was all that was needed in the grid of the past. It worked well for many … Read Article Good Energy Policy = Balanced and Diversifiedby mThink on May 23, 2005 Dear Secretary Bodman: Thank you for your outreach to democrats, former Energy secretaries and Western governors. I represent each of these categories and appreciate the fact that you … Read Article The LNG Questionby mThink on May 23, 2005 During 2000, natural gas prices in the United States took a longanticipated turn, and market watchers are now waiting (at the time of writing) for mean reversion to … Read Article Restructuring as Erosionby mThink on May 23, 2005 Throughout 2005, five anniversaries will mark mileposts in public powers pursuit to protect electricity consumers and strengthen the value of community ownership of electric utilities. The first is … Read Article Putting Performance Firstby mThink on May 23, 2005 Poor financial performance in 2001-2003 has led utilities to re-examine their management approach. Utilities that are making it out of the slump have implemented new management techniques such … Read Article Toward a Capacity Demand Curve Marketby mThink on May 23, 2005 The market for electric generation facilities has passed through several stages in the transition to more competitive markets. Questions over the viability of competitive markets gave way to … Read Article Benefits Realizationby mThink on May 23, 2005 Pick up any current periodical from CIO magazine to Fortune to BusinessWeek and you only have to skim the table of contents to find articles titled … Read Article Understanding Selection Biasby mThink on May 23, 2005 Selection bias can be defined as a nonrandom participation in a program offer leading to damaging financial results. It can affect the profitability of any product line where … Read Article Outsourcing Becomes Partneringby mThink on May 23, 2005 The energy and utilities marketplace is one of the most challenging business environments that exist today, and it is also an industry sector where business transformation outsourcing (BTO) … Read Article« Previous 1 2 3 4 … 7 8 9 10 11 … 16 17 18 19 Next »