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Background The physical nature of electricity imposes market constraints quite unlike those seen in other energy markets. With today’s technology, electricity storage is impractical and uneconomic. This creates … Read Article

A New Taxonomy The forces of change shaping the energy industry will combine with continued regulatory pressure to further fragment the industry and bring about a new energy … Read Article

Utilities have no experience with competition or strategies for winning customers when primarily dealing with a product like electricity or natural gas. Competing utilities must be customer-oriented, study … Read Article

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