Tag: Thought Leadership

Standardizing the Supply Chain After Enterprise Reorganization

Deregulation … mergers … spin-offs … The changes taking place in the energy industry, including the reality that competition will increase to ... Read Article

Evolution of the Energy Value Chain

The energy industry continues its metamorphosis, driven in various parts by business imperatives to enhance shareholder value, meet industry-restructuring mandates, and realize ... Read Article

The Role of Web-Based Dynamic Trading in the Restructured Electric and Gas Markets

Electricity and Gas Markets Have Become More Complex Energy industry deregulation is a relatively old story, though one that continues to unfold ... Read Article

Strategic Transformation in the Energy Industry – A Blueprint for Competing in a Restructured and Networked Environment

Forces of Change in the Energy Industry The networked information economy and competition represent two of the greatest drivers of change in ... Read Article

Where to Now?

Major states were continuing to open retail electric and gas markets to full competition-in response, great plans were being laid, and extensive ... Read Article

A Thousand Points of (Power and) Light: Unlocking the Potential of Distributed Generation

Much has been written about the opportunities distributed-generation (DG) technologies offer the energy marketplace. DG will one day reduce local congestion, reduce ... Read Article

Utilities and the Fourth Stage of E-Business

Cost savings through automation of business interactions has never been more appealing. Re-thinking our approach to inter-business transactions and re-applying existing and ... Read Article

Success in Deregulated Markets: The Multi-Utilities Business Model

A paradigm shift in the utilities industry has been underway for some time now. For decades the industry was characterized by regional ... Read Article

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
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