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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

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

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

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

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

Information Technology and the New Energy Industry Model

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

Regional Transmission Organizations: Linchpins of Restructuring

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

Surmounting Retail Energy Market Barriers Through Selective Business Focus

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 Innovation Imperative

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

Regional Transmission Organizations: Millenium Order on Designing Market Institutions for Electric Network Systems

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

Shared Services: More Than a Legal Play

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

Public Water Suppliers Look to Privatization

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

The Path of Transition to a Wires Company: A Case for Embracing Change

The choice between mobilizing for a fight or embracing change may now seem obvious, but there were many that chose the former ... Read Article

With Deregulation and Competition, Energy Companies Embrace EBPP as an Effective CRM Tool

Deregulation and Billing While customers in deregulated utility markets face a barrage of marketing materials from new entrants into the marketplace and ... Read Article

Strategic Mergers and Acquisitions in the Utilities Industry

Do utilities really know what they are doing, or are they just following the trend? What do the transactions say about the ... Read Article

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