White Papers 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 Utilities and the Fourth Stage of E-Businessby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Cost savings through automation of business interactions has never been more appealing. Re-thinking our approach to inter-business transactions and re-applying existing and emerging technologies appropriately can realize such … Read Article Impact of Greenhouse Gas Regulation: The Next Ten Months – The Next Ten Yearsby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Introduction Climate change has arrived — physically, politically and economically. The debaters no longer argue if climate change is real, they debate how quickly it is coming upon … Read Article The Future of The California Energy Marketby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 The financial turmoil in the California energy market has begun to subside. Now is the time to look at the opportunities and challenges in the future. Several key … Read Article Integrating IT: The Real Lessons Are Learned After The Mergerby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on January 15, 2002 Introduction The past few years have brought about many sweeping and costly changes to the energy industry. Post-merger power companies in particular are reeling in a business climate … Read Article Public Water Suppliers Look to Privatizationby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on November 15, 2000 New forces are reshaping the responsibilities of water and wastewater utilities. Although they come in different forms, water utilities conventionally serve the public and industry supplying, treating, and … Read Article« Previous 1 2 3 4 … 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next »