• New Solutions for Energy Companies: Combating the Effects of Market Volatility

    Insurance markets and trading markets have traditionally looked at risks from very different perspectives. Insurers worried about 100-year storms while traders focused ... Read Article

    The Energy Information Community: Getting from Here to There

    Smith: What is the Energy Information Community? Steklac: In simplest terms, the Energy Information Community is a process- enabling, technology-based approach from ... 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

    Trading Floors, Alternative Approaches To Risk Management And The New Wave Of Convergence?

    Why Do Energy Companies Trade? Trading operations appear to be a highly esteemed part of many energy companies. During the last two ... Read Article

    Establishing a Competitive High-Performance Contact Center

    The Many Opportunities to Improve Call Center Effectiveness and Efficiency The American Customer Satisfaction Index is a cross-industry national indicator that links ... Read Article

    A New Paradigm for Customer Care and Service in a Deregulated Energy Market

    Utilities have no experience with competition or strategies for winning customers when primarily dealing with a product like electricity or natural gas. ... Read Article

    Profitability Risk Assessment at Nuclear Power Plants Under Electricity Deregulation

    Measuring Nuclear Power Plant Performance in the 1990s With competition in electricity markets, here is concern that reliability and safety at nuclear ... Read Article

    E-Business in the Power Industry: Transforming the Competitive Landscape

    “You have to breathe all day to stay at your desk, don’t you?” Jack Welch, CEO General Electric Global market conditions for ... Read Article

    Global Trends in — and the Practical Effects of — Liberalization and Other Regulatory Approaches

    It is important to start by clarifying what is meant by my use of the term “liberalization.” To “liberalize” has a number ... Read Article

    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

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