Tag: Enterprise

Boom Or Bust? An Analysis of the Quantity of Power Plants Actually Built

To the rescue, hundreds of new generation facilities were announced across the country. Plans to build our way to energy security were ... Read Article

Integrating IT: The Real Lessons Are Learned After The Merger

Introduction The past few years have brought about many sweeping and costly changes to the energy industry. Post-merger power companies in particular ... Read Article

Post-Merger Integration: Doing the Right Deal and Doing the Deal Right

The energy industry is in the midst of its most challenging period in more than three decades. The rapid convergence of the ... Read Article

Perspective From the First RTO: The Future of Industry Regulation

In the summer and fall of 2001, PJM Interconnection President and CEO Phillip G. Harris testified three times about electric system reliability ... Read Article

E-Business Platforms in the Electricity Supply Industry

All over the world, the electricity supply industry is going through a period of unprecedented and momentous change. After a century of ... Read Article

Utilitiy Mergers and Acquisitions: No Slam Dunk

In the United States, the National Basketball Association and the utility industry may not have much in common fundamentally, but what they ... Read Article

RTOs – The Centerpiece of Electric Industry Restructuring

Electric industry restructuring and its consequences seized the headlines in 2001. When deregulation was first introduced to state and federal regulators in ... Read Article

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Streamlines Operations with SAP’s R/3 Enterprise

SAIC is a leader in systems design and integration, information security, IT outsourcing, and telecommunications networking and support, with more than 41,000 ... 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

The Future of The California Energy Market

The financial turmoil in the California energy market has begun to subside. Now is the time to look at the opportunities and ... 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

Distribution Outsourcing – Puget Sound Energy''s Experience

Introduction In February 2001, Puget Sound Energy (PSE) began outsourcing its new residential and commercial system extension and system maintenance construction work ... 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

Do Energy Companies Really Need To Customize Their Software?

Introduction The energy industry continues to experience significant restructuring activities which are primarily changing the way energy delivery businesses (i.e., pipes and ... 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
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