Tag: Thought Leadership

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

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

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

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

Introduction In recent years, power utilities have had major concerns about the issue of managing outages — especially unplanned ones caused by ... Read Article

The result of all of this? Energy companies must develop coherent strategies for sustainable growth. To help guide that process, this white ... Read Article

Based on my experience at National Grid, I maintain that to be most successful, transmission must be independent – in terms of ... Read Article

The Business Internet is the realization of the vision of a Digital Nervous System in which information flows quickly through an organization ... Read Article

For the past 50 years, the utility industry landscape has been dominated by the vertically-integrated business model, with companies owning and operating ... Read Article

Recognizing the new reality, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) declared in Order No. 888 that, with easy entry, plentiful gas supplies, ... Read Article

Energy Service Providers (ESPs) seeking market entry in the United States face an often-underestimated series of market barriers. Strong product differentiation and ... Read Article

The Value of Innovation As described by Peter Drucker, innovation refers to the function of entrepreneurship, the means by which new wealth-producing ... Read Article

Congestion Zones Full locational pricing at every node in the network is a natural consequence of the basic economics of a competitive ... Read Article

Background Recent dramatic changes in the electric utility industry have systematically motivated traditionally integrated utilities to functionally or legally unbundle their business ... Read Article

New forces are reshaping the responsibilities of water and wastewater utilities. Although they come in different forms, water utilities conventionally serve the ... Read Article