Author: Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book

The Challenge The electric power infrastructure is a foundation of American prosperity and one of the key elements of the digital economy ... Read Article

Utilities encountered a decade of challenges in the 1990s – utility diversification, attempts to adjust to emerging regulatory opportunities and distractions from ... Read Article

In the United States, utility industry forces are driving substantial changes in strategy for T&D businesses. The U.S. Energy Policy Act of ... Read Article

When financial results don’t meet expectations, senior executives face five dreaded words that have become much too common: “We need to cut ... Read Article

Energy & Utilities: Let’s start by taking a look at the state of the electric utility industry marketplace as it relates to ... Read Article

There is growing interest in the U.S. both in achieving some increased degree of energy independence and in reducing CO2 emissions to ... Read Article

The rise of wireless data networks, coupled with the evolution of software solutions, has made advances in field automation, project management and ... Read Article

Utilities in the U.S. stand to save considerable expense by evaluating their customer service operations from a customer cost-to-serve perspective. They spend ... Read Article

Introduction Recent moves toward a more competitive retail environment, as well as increased performance expectations from shareholders, have focused utilities on improving ... Read Article

Intelligent utility networks (IUNs), also known in the electric power industry as intelligent grids, smart grids or modern grids, make use of ... Read Article

Successful energy policy is about trade-offs between different and divergent agendas that must somehow be reconciled. Energy policy, whether in the U.K., ... Read Article

Executive Summary Europe’s water industry is grappling with six major issues in 2006 that present often-conflicting interests and that may need new ... Read Article

Executive Summary After more than two decades of underinvestment, the North American electricity delivery infrastructure is struggling to meet today’s changing and ... Read Article

Today’s forces driving the global energy and utility market have never been more acute. Consumption increases and volatile fuel costs coupled with ... Read Article

When the audit committee of a publicly traded company sits down to meet, what’s on the agenda? What issues are considered most ... Read Article