White Papers Weather Forecasting for Utility Companiesby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on May 15, 2006 Weather-sensitive business operations are primarily reactive to shortterm (three to 36 hours) local conditions (city, county, state) due to the unavailability of appropriate predictive data at this temporal … Read Article Addressing the Aging Utility Workforce Challenge: ACT NOWby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on May 15, 2006 For several years, industry writers have been warning of the impending aging workforce crisis. Demographic data has been analyzed and presented, and numerous conferences have been held to … Read Article Talkin Bout our Generationby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on May 15, 2006 Energy independence has been an increasingly popular goal in the United States. However, a goal without a plan is just a wish, said Antoine de Saint-Exupery. While there … Read Article Informed Decision Makingby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on May 15, 2006 Corporate management is increasingly called upon to make complex critical decisions in short time frames. Consolidations within industries, competition to maintain competitive advantage and pressure to maximize return … Read Article 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 Exploiting Broadband Over Power Linesby mThink on May 23, 2005 Broadband over power lines (BPL) and power line communications (PLC) are sets of equipment, software and management services that when overlaid on the electric grid provide users with … Read Article Q&A: Meter Reading Past and Futureby mThink on May 23, 2005 Q: In 1997, as Puget Sound Power and Light, you merged with Washington Natural Gas and became Puget Sound Energy. Was it then that automated meter reading made … Read Article Setting a Course for Growthby mThink on May 23, 2005 Within the next few years, energy and utility companies will be operating in a more disaggregated, multinational industry. The demands of this new market will drive companies to … Read Article The New New Gridby mThink on May 23, 2005 Under pressure from four distinct sources aging assets, growing peak demand, the emergence of new power generation technologies and revenue constraints from regulation and theft distribution … 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« Previous 1 2 3 4 … 7 8 9 10 11 … 16 17 18 19 Next »