Tag: Thought Leadership

The E-Market Imperative: Digital Transactions are Transforming the Energy Marketplace

Although we can be certain that significant changes are coming to the energy marketplace, the crystal ball is cloudy as to the ... Read Article

The Benefits of Server Consolidation for Utilities Infrastructure

Although the notion of consolidation is not new, advances in open system functionality on the part of hardware vendors over the past ... Read Article

How Did We Get Here?

For eight decades, the electricity supply industry and its customers enjoyed the benefits of increasing economies of scale. Electric utilities, people reasoned, ... Read Article

The Third Wave of Convergence in Energy Markets

Wave One: The Traditional Regulatory Framework The traditional regulatory framework created a convergence of energy prices with the costs of constructing, maintaining, ... Read Article

Advantages of the RHPH Model for Internet-Based Electronic Procurement

The L-Hub model is positioned favorably in the e-procurement market space, in large part because of the sheer size of regional economies ... Read Article

Report from New England: Lessons Learned on the Road to Competition

This white paper reviews the restructuring experiences in three New England states – Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine – and their trials ... Read Article

Why Do Energy Companies Trade?

Companies that trade – and trade well – have an advantage over companies that don’t, but typically that advantage is more subtle ... Read Article

E-Markets: Creating the Future of Business-to-Business Online

A Foundation for the Future Now consider the Internet, which creates unprecedented opportunities for companies to readily participate in, and even create, ... Read Article

The Global Power Company of the Future

The initial stages of the liberalization process currently underway across parts of the globe see individual countries separating out the traditional monopoly ... Read Article

Nuclear Power Poised To Assume Larger Role In Energy Production

The nuclear industry has proven that it can be an efficient producer of electric power while operating in a manner that is ... Read Article

How Standards Enhance Energy Competition

Birth of the GISB The creation of this new, cooperative organization not only made good business sense, but it also addressed concerns ... Read Article

The Global Utility: The Experience from an Acquisition Made in the United States by a Foreign Utility

Our story starts in 1991. After 40 years of government ownership, the U.K. electricity industry began to privatize in 1990. England and ... Read Article

Grid Reliability and Power Quality Solutions for the Digital Economy with the Virtual Power Plant

Figure 1 Types of Energy Trading Exchanges (Source: AMR Research, 2000; courtesy of ENCORP, Inc. ©2000) See larger image The confluence of ... Read Article

Internet Trading Exchanges To Drive Further Utilities Restructuring

Key Term: Portals Defined A dizzying array of terms is used to describe the various online communities available to utility companies to ... Read Article

Preface from PricewaterhouseCoopers

We are delighted that you are about to read these pages, which we are confident will give you unique and timely insights ... Read Article
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