Tag: Utilities

Numerous challenges and opportunities face companies that offer energy-related services to commercial customers and end consumers. The marketplace is large, competitive and ... Read Article

A paradigm shift in the utilities industry has been underway for some time now. For decades the industry was characterized by regional ... Read Article

Introduction Companies do not emerge into a competitive environment with immediate knowledge of how to compete safely and effectively. Companies faced with ... Read Article

In the decade since deregulation, utilities have had to balance two competing necessities — improving customer service and lowering costs. Automatic bill ... Read Article

The energy industry is in the midst of its most challenging period in more than three decades. The rapid convergence of the ... Read Article

Electricity and Gas Markets Have Become More Complex Energy industry deregulation is a relatively old story, though one that continues to unfold ... Read Article

Talk is cheap, but meaningful dialogue is valuable. For utilities, speaking to each segment of the market in its own language can ... Read Article

This white paper reviews the restructuring experiences in three New England states – Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine – and their trials ... Read Article

Companies that trade – and trade well – have an advantage over companies that don’t, but typically that advantage is more subtle ... Read Article

A Foundation for the Future Now consider the Internet, which creates unprecedented opportunities for companies to readily participate in, and even create, ... Read Article

The initial stages of the liberalization process currently underway across parts of the globe see individual countries separating out the traditional monopoly ... Read Article

The nuclear industry has proven that it can be an efficient producer of electric power while operating in a manner that is ... Read Article

Birth of the GISB The creation of this new, cooperative organization not only made good business sense, but it also addressed concerns ... Read Article

Our story starts in 1991. After 40 years of government ownership, the U.K. electricity industry began to privatize in 1990. England and ... Read Article

Figure 1 Types of Energy Trading Exchanges (Source: AMR Research, 2000; courtesy of ENCORP, Inc. ©2000) See larger image The confluence of ... Read Article