White Papers The IBPP Revolution Meets – and Exceeds – Expectationsby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Introduction In an industry promising revolutionary advances nearly every day, one application has gone well beyond vision-speak: Internet bill presentment and payment(IBPP). By implementing an IBPP system, businesses … Read Article Avoiding the Untenable Modelby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Introduction What is now known as the “California experiment in electricity deregulation” has sent shock waves around the world, particularly to other U.S. states and countries considering deregulation. … Read Article It''s Time to Break the Gridlockby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 The Power Grid: Platform for Competition The first step toward ensuring a healthy power sector is a simple affirmation: the grid plays a central, indeed indispensable, role in … Read Article Choice!by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 There are many disturbing practices and beliefs prevalent in the traditional electric and gas energy industry, but few more disturbing than the struggle between energy providers and energy … Read Article The Best Laid Schemes…by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Back in the good old days before restructuring, I used a simple formula to pick electric utility stocks for the elderly, blue-haired clientele that loved those fat dividends … Read Article The Double-Edged Sword of Equating Supply and Demandby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Electric system reliability is a political necessity. The reverberations from California’s rolling black-outs have stalled the trend towards generation market deregulation, which seemed so inevitable just two years … Read Article The Connected Home: The Open Services Gateway is Fulfilling the Promise of the Internet Lifestyleby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Wouldn’t it be wonderful to automate some of your household chores, and leave home knowing that everything is safe and secure? With the delivery of network-based smart services … Read Article Electricity Supply Organization: Which End is Up?by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Since the FERC’s July 2001 order to form four large RTOs, chaos has returned to the short-term planning and management of the nation’s electricity supplies. If form follows … Read Article The RTO Endgame – Slower and More Political Than Once Thoughtby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 The Broken “E” Bubble Being both a student of history and a participant in the recent events in California, it’s with some reluctance that I undertake the task … Read Article The Entry of New Retailers and Their Search for Customersby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Background The unbundling of the traditional energy company in the face of industry restructuring has exposed to competition areas traditionally overlooked by utilities, namely market share and customer … Read Article Using Experiments to Inform the Movement Towards Privatization and Deregulationby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 The Computer-Based Laboratory From Experiment to Application Electronic trading (now commonly known as e-commerce) in the experimental laboratory began at the University of Arizona in 1976 when Arlington … Read Article Boom Or Bust? An Analysis of the Quantity of Power Plants Actually Builtby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 To the rescue, hundreds of new generation facilities were announced across the country. Plans to build our way to energy security were well under way. No one questioned … Read Article Standardizing the Supply Chain After Enterprise Reorganizationby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Deregulation mergers … spin-offs … The changes taking place in the energy industry, including the reality that competition will increase to levels never seen before, has prompted … Read Article Probability Distributions of Net Present Values for U.S. Nuclear Power Plantsby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Introduction From the dawn of electricity deregulation in the United States until mid-1998, a pessimistic cloud hung over the nuclear power industry. This was expressed in early 1998 … Read Article Perspective From the First RTO: The Future of Industry Regulationby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 In the summer and fall of 2001, PJM Interconnection President and CEO Phillip G. Harris testified three times about electric system reliability issues before legislative committees. Harris first … Read Article Strategic Transformation in the Energy Industry – A Blueprint for Competing in a Restructured and Networked Environmentby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Forces of Change in the Energy Industry The networked information economy and competition represent two of the greatest drivers of change in the energy industry today. While the … Read Article Microturbines: A new Source of Reliable Electricityby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Introduction Commercial and industrial energy consumers have a better option for purchasing electrical power. A new class of electrical generator, called a microturbine, is designed to help satisfy … Read Article RTOs – The Centerpiece of Electric Industry Restructuringby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Electric industry restructuring and its consequences seized the headlines in 2001. When deregulation was first introduced to state and federal regulators in the early 1990s, few imagined that … Read Article« Previous 1 2 3 4 … 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next »