• 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

    Public Power: Bucking the Trend

    As a result of the early failures of deregulation in the United States, we have learned two critically important lessons about the ... Read Article

    A Deluge of Regulation

    The casualties continue to mount in the devastated landscape of the post-Enron world. We know now that Enron was the beginning of ... Read Article
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