Author: Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book

The casualties continue to mount in the devastated landscape of the post-Enron world. We know now that Enron was the beginning of ... Read Article

Recent events in the energy marketplace and the failure of unregulated businesses have put greater emphasis on regulated businesses. Given this backdrop, ... Read Article

Energy companies transact close to a million dollars a day for physical delivery in markets run by independent systems operators. The settlement ... Read Article

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The renewed and particularly intense focus on performance improvement and cost reduction in utilities is traceable to three compelling drivers of change: ... Read Article

Let us look at one situation with two very different endings. Reliable operations, employee safety, and corporate profitability are all at stake. ... Read Article

The Kyoto Protocol would have required the United States to commit to a 7 percent reduction in carbon emissions from the 1990 ... Read Article

A look at the U.S. wind energy industry’s growth chart shows an upward curve that takes off at the close of the ... Read Article

With the collapse of energy trading and the slowing of retail deregulation, energy and utility companies are going back to the basics. ... Read Article