Author: Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book

Who would have predicted that significant help in managing operational risks would come from such an unlikely source: Section 404 of the ... Read Article

The principal driver of energy consumption and demand growth in the United States is increased population. The nation’s population is growing at ... Read Article

Utilities are working hard to address new financial control and reporting requirements, making progress on significant cost reduction and revenue enhancement initiatives ... Read Article

The expression “hydrogen economy” is appearing more and more frequently in the headlines and on the bookstands. As recently as February 2005 ... Read Article

Q: In 1997, as Puget Sound Power and Light, you merged with Washington Natural Gas and became Puget Sound Energy. Was it ... Read Article

Under pressure from four distinct sources – aging assets, growing peak demand, the emergence of new power generation technologies and revenue constraints ... Read Article

The promise of the intelligent energy grid remains elusive; however, a steady wave of innovation in communication and information technologies, combined with ... Read Article

During 2000, natural gas prices in the United States took a longanticipated turn, and market watchers are now waiting (at the time ... Read Article

Poor financial performance in 2001-2003 has led utilities to re-examine their management approach. Utilities that are making it out of the slump ... Read Article

Pick up any current periodical – from CIO magazine to Fortune to BusinessWeek – and you only have to skim the table ... Read Article

The energy and utilities marketplace is one of the most challenging business environments that exist today, and it is also an industry ... Read Article

Investments in energy trading, curtailed in the wake of the turbulent years following 2000, have begun to swing back, and agile companies ... Read Article

The production of electricity and gas, the primary sources of revenue for most utilities, requires a wide variety of assets. Most of ... Read Article

For a long time the standard point-to-point analog line to a substation was all that was needed in the grid of the ... Read Article

The embryonic field of nanotechnology, which has been receiving much attention of late, aspires to the control of matter at molecular and ... Read Article