• The Myth of Deregulation

    In 1996, California passed the nation’s first and boldest electricity deregulation law. As we all know now, the state jumped off a ... Read Article

    On Performance Management

    As the energy industry evolves, leveraging business intelligence becomes ever more important. The well-publicized problems of major energy traders over the last ... Read Article

    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

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