Tag: Utilities

Over the past year, the energy industry has experienced a tremendous increase in the type and amount of information demanded by regulators ... Read Article

As leaders in the utility industry, part of your job is to conjure up a full understanding of both the perils and ... Read Article

In many jurisdictions, any negative customer impact is felt by the utility as a penalty payment, so network performance (system outages, voltage ... Read Article

In the United States, the National Basketball Association and the utility industry may not have much in common fundamentally, but what they ... Read Article

Much has been written about the opportunities distributed-generation (DG) technologies offer the energy marketplace. DG will one day reduce local congestion, reduce ... Read Article

Introduction In an industry promising revolutionary advances nearly every day, one application has gone well beyond vision-speak: Internet bill presentment and payment(IBPP). ... Read Article

Introduction What is now known as the “California experiment in electricity deregulation” has sent shock waves around the world, particularly to other ... Read Article

The Power Grid: Platform for Competition The first step toward ensuring a healthy power sector is a simple affirmation: the grid plays ... Read Article

There are many disturbing practices and beliefs prevalent in the traditional electric and gas energy industry, but few more disturbing than the ... Read Article

Back in the good old days before restructuring, I used a simple formula to pick electric utility stocks for the elderly, blue-haired ... Read Article

Electric system reliability is a political necessity. The reverberations from California’s rolling black-outs have stalled the trend towards generation market deregulation, which ... Read Article

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to automate some of your household chores, and leave home knowing that everything is safe and secure? With ... Read Article

Since the FERC’s July 2001 order to form four large RTOs, chaos has returned to the short-term planning and management of the ... Read Article

The Broken “E” Bubble Being both a student of history and a participant in the recent events in California, it’s with some ... Read Article

Background The unbundling of the traditional energy company in the face of industry restructuring has exposed to competition areas traditionally overlooked by ... Read Article