Author: Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book

For more than 30 years, Newton- Evans Research Company has been studying the initial development and the embryonic and emergent stages of ... Read Article

The smart grid is progressing well on several fronts. Groups such as the Grid Wise Alliance, events such as Grid Week, and ... Read Article

Just as global demand for energy is steadily increasing, so too, are the recognized costs of power generation. A recent report about ... Read Article

Intelligent Plant Lifecycle Management (iPLM) is the process of managing a generation facility's data and information throughout its lifetime - from initial ... Read Article

The U.S. utility industry - particularly the electric-producing branch of it, there also are natural gas and water utilities - has found ... Read Article

In the past, the utility industry could consider itself exempt from market drivers like those listed above. However, today's utilities are immersed ... Read Article

On the Mediterranean island of Malta, with a population of about 400,000 people on a land mass of just over 300 square ... Read Article

With utility infrastructure aging rapidly, reliability of service is threatened. Yet the economy is hurting, unemployment is accelerating, environmental mandates are rising, ... Read Article

The software industry has been using maturity models to define and measure software development capabilities for decades. These models have helped the ... Read Article

The nuclear power industry is facing significant employee turnover, which may be exacerbated by the need to staff new nuclear units. To ... Read Article

In the past, distribution demand reduction was a technique used only in emergency situations a few times a year - if that. ... Read Article

Smart or advanced electricity metering, using a fixed network communications path, has been with us since pioneering installations in the US Midwest ... Read Article

For the last few decades the growth of the world's population and its corresponding increased demand for electrical energy has created a ... Read Article

The electric vehicle first made its appearance about a century ago, but it is only in recent years - months, to be ... Read Article

Every year, utilities are faced with the critical decision of where to invest capital. These decisions are guided by several factors, such ... Read Article