• Network Asset Maintenance

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

    Utilitiy Mergers and Acquisitions: No Slam Dunk

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

    A Thousand Points of (Power and) Light: Unlocking the Potential of Distributed Generation

    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

    The IBPP Revolution Meets – and Exceeds – Expectations

    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

    Avoiding the Untenable Model

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

    It''s Time to Break the Gridlock

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

    Choice!

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

    The Best Laid Schemes…

    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

    The Double-Edged Sword of Equating Supply and Demand

    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

    The Connected Home: The Open Services Gateway is Fulfilling the Promise of the Internet Lifestyle

    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

    Electricity Supply Organization: Which End is Up?

    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 RTO Endgame – Slower and More Political Than Once Thought

    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

    The Entry of New Retailers and Their Search for Customers

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

    Using Experiments to Inform the Movement Towards Privatization and Deregulation

    The Computer-Based Laboratory From Experiment to Application Electronic trading (now commonly known as e-commerce) in the experimental laboratory began at the University ... Read Article

    Boom Or Bust? An Analysis of the Quantity of Power Plants Actually Built

    To the rescue, hundreds of new generation facilities were announced across the country. Plans to build our way to energy security were ... Read Article

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