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We Need Standard Market Design

No doubt in the future we will look back at this time as a turning point in the history of America’s $225 ... Read Article

Yallourn Energy Powers Maintenance Efforts with MRO Software''s Strategic Asset Management Solution: An MRO Software Case Study

Based in the Latrobe Valley in the Australian state of Victoria, 150 kilometers east of Melbourne, Yallourn Energy operates Australia’s second largest ... Read Article

Partial Deregulation and Credit

Deregulation or, as it should be more properly called, restructuring of U.S. power markets was supposed to induce greater efficiencies and reduce ... Read Article

Building an Enterprise GIS

Early on, utilities, with no specific cartographic expertise and lacking any standards around scale, orientation, map sheet size, symbology, or detail, created ... Read Article

Portfolio Value Management

To position their companies for success in the energy industry of the future, utility executives must have a clear vision of the ... Read Article

Portfolio Approach to Cutting Costs

The renewed and particularly intense focus on performance improvement and cost reduction in utilities is traceable to three compelling drivers of change: ... Read Article

Trends in Bill Payment

One of the most significant trends within the payments market is the increasing substitution of electronic forms of payment for traditional paper-based ... Read Article

The Big Shift Change

Let us look at one situation with two very different endings. Reliable operations, employee safety, and corporate profitability are all at stake. ... Read Article

Understanding Risk Management

Greater recognition of the correlation among the risks in energy marketing activities, asset management and operations, and the energy regulatory environment is ... Read Article

Carbon Dioxide Strategies

The Kyoto Protocol would have required the United States to commit to a 7 percent reduction in carbon emissions from the 1990 ... Read Article

Chapter 11: Life After Death

It is a fundamental tenet of economics that life in a competitive marketplace comes with both risks and rewards. Partial deregulation of ... Read Article

Wind Energy: Winds of Change

A look at the U.S. wind energy industry’s growth chart shows an upward curve that takes off at the close of the ... Read Article

Enterprise-Wide Risk Management

The type, scope, and frequency of both internal and external risks facing the energy and utility industry have increased significantly. To meet ... Read Article

Disruptive Technologies

With the collapse of energy trading and the slowing of retail deregulation, energy and utility companies are going back to the basics. ... Read Article

Can the Merchant Sector Survive?

Within the energy industry, the merchant sector has gone from one of the most promising areas to one of the most troubled. ... Read Article

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