• White Papers

    It''s Time to Break the Gridlock

    by 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 Demand

    by 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 Lifestyle

    by 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 Thought

    by 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 Customers

    by 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 Deregulation

    by 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 Built

    by 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 Reorganization

    by 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 Plants

    by 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 Regulation

    by 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 Environment

    by 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 Electricity

    by 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 Restructuring

    by 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-Business

    by 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

    The Innovation Imperative

    by Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on November 15, 2000

    The Value of Innovation As described by Peter Drucker, innovation refers to the function of entrepreneurship, the means by which new wealth-producing resources are created, or existing resources … Read Article
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