Tag: Utilities

Introduction The management of weather risk has moved to the forefront in recent years as corporate risk managers have sought to take ... Read Article

Introduction In recent years, power utilities have had major concerns about the issue of managing outages — especially unplanned ones caused by ... Read Article

Industry Transformation: The New Competitive Landscape The global energy industry is experiencing extraordinary transformation. The forces of deregulation, increased competition, simultaneous unbundling ... Read Article

Insurance markets and trading markets have traditionally looked at risks from very different perspectives. Insurers worried about 100-year storms while traders focused ... Read Article

Smith: What is the Energy Information Community? Steklac: In simplest terms, the Energy Information Community is a process- enabling, technology-based approach from ... Read Article

A recent study of 153 cross-industry chief financial officers (CFOs) reveals that commercialsectorCFOs (those in manufacturing, high tech, transportation, retail and communicationsenterprises) ... Read Article

Background The physical nature of electricity imposes market constraints quite unlike those seen in other energy markets. With today’s technology, electricity storage ... Read Article

A New Taxonomy The forces of change shaping the energy industry will combine with continued regulatory pressure to further fragment the industry ... Read Article

Utilities have no experience with competition or strategies for winning customers when primarily dealing with a product like electricity or natural gas. ... Read Article

Measuring Nuclear Power Plant Performance in the 1990s With competition in electricity markets, here is concern that reliability and safety at nuclear ... Read Article

“You have to breathe all day to stay at your desk, don’t you?” Jack Welch, CEO General Electric Global market conditions for ... Read Article

It is important to start by clarifying what is meant by my use of the term “liberalization.” To “liberalize” has a number ... Read Article

Although we can be certain that significant changes are coming to the energy marketplace, the crystal ball is cloudy as to the ... Read Article

Although the notion of consolidation is not new, advances in open system functionality on the part of hardware vendors over the past ... Read Article

For eight decades, the electricity supply industry and its customers enjoyed the benefits of increasing economies of scale. Electric utilities, people reasoned, ... Read Article