• Building an Enterprise GIS

    Early on, utilities, with no specific cartographic expertise and lacking any standards around scale, orientation, map sheet size, symbology, or detail, created ... Read Article

    Automating Maintenance Part of Seabrook''s Pursuit of Excellence: An MRO Software Case Study

    To say that the Seabrook nuclear power station has had a tumultuous history is an understatement. The Boston Globe called it the ... Read Article

    MAXIMO Fuels Columbia Gas Transmission''s Maintenance Activities: An MRO Software Case Study

    Columbia Gas Transmission, an operating company of NiSource, Inc., offers a variety of competitively priced natural gas transportation and storage services built ... Read Article

    Meeting Information Demands

    Over the past year, the energy industry has experienced a tremendous increase in the type and amount of information demanded by regulators ... Read Article

    Network Asset Maintenance

    In many jurisdictions, any negative customer impact is felt by the utility as a penalty payment, so network performance (system outages, voltage ... Read Article

    On Performance Management

    As the energy industry evolves, leveraging business intelligence becomes ever more important. The well-publicized problems of major energy traders over the last ... Read Article

    Yallourn Energy Powers Maintenance Efforts with MRO Software''s Strategic Asset Management Solution: An MRO Software Case Study

    Based in the Latrobe Valley in the Australian state of Victoria, 150 kilometers east of Melbourne, Yallourn Energy operates Australia’s second largest ... Read Article

    Electricity Supply Organization: Which End is Up?

    Since the FERC’s July 2001 order to form four large RTOs, chaos has returned to the short-term planning and management of the ... Read Article

    Using Experiments to Inform the Movement Towards Privatization and Deregulation

    The Computer-Based Laboratory From Experiment to Application Electronic trading (now commonly known as e-commerce) in the experimental laboratory began at the University ... Read Article

    Probability Distributions of Net Present Values for U.S. Nuclear Power Plants

    Introduction From the dawn of electricity deregulation in the United States until mid-1998, a pessimistic cloud hung over the nuclear power industry. ... Read Article

    Microturbines: A new Source of Reliable Electricity

    Introduction Commercial and industrial energy consumers have a better option for purchasing electrical power. A new class of electrical generator, called a ... Read Article

    Impact of Greenhouse Gas Regulation: The Next Ten Months – The Next Ten Years

    Introduction Climate change has arrived — physically, politically and economically. The debaters no longer argue if climate change is real, they debate ... Read Article

    Offshore Wind: The Environmental Implications

    Introduction The impact of climate change through global warming has been a concern for some time now. As a result of this ... Read Article

    Integration of Power and Gas Trading

    U.K. Electricity’s Key Fuel Source: Gas The principle of electricity generation via a conductor rotating in a magnetic field totally dominates the ... Read Article

    Managing Weather Risk

    Introduction The management of weather risk has moved to the forefront in recent years as corporate risk managers have sought to take ... Read Article
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