Learning Resources

Measuring Nuclear Power Plant Performance in the 1990s With competition in electricity markets, here is concern that reliability and safety at nuclear power plants (NPPs) will be compromised. … Read Article

“You have to breathe all day to stay at your desk, don’t you?” Jack Welch, CEO General Electric Global market conditions for utilities are creating entirely new rules … Read Article

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

Although we can be certain that significant changes are coming to the energy marketplace, the crystal ball is cloudy as to the nature and the timing of the … Read Article

Although the notion of consolidation is not new, advances in open system functionality on the part of hardware vendors over the past few years have paved the way … Read Article

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

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

The L-Hub model is positioned favorably in the e-procurement market space, in large part because of the sheer size of regional economies and the compelling nature of doing … Read Article