• 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

    Standardizing the Supply Chain After Enterprise Reorganization

    Deregulation … mergers … spin-offs … The changes taking place in the energy industry, including the reality that competition will increase to ... Read Article

    Growth Strategies for Energy Companies

    The result of all of this? Energy companies must develop coherent strategies for sustainable growth. To help guide that process, this white ... Read Article

    Pioneering Privatized Transmission: National Grid''s Perspective

    Based on my experience at National Grid, I maintain that to be most successful, transmission must be independent – in terms of ... Read Article

    The Web-Enabled Utility

    The Business Internet is the realization of the vision of a Digital Nervous System in which information flows quickly through an organization ... Read Article

    Information Technology and the New Energy Industry Model

    For the past 50 years, the utility industry landscape has been dominated by the vertically-integrated business model, with companies owning and operating ... Read Article

    Regional Transmission Organizations: Linchpins of Restructuring

    Recognizing the new reality, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) declared in Order No. 888 that, with easy entry, plentiful gas supplies, ... Read Article

    Surmounting Retail Energy Market Barriers Through Selective Business Focus

    Energy Service Providers (ESPs) seeking market entry in the United States face an often-underestimated series of market barriers. Strong product differentiation and ... Read Article

    The Innovation Imperative

    The Value of Innovation As described by Peter Drucker, innovation refers to the function of entrepreneurship, the means by which new wealth-producing ... Read Article

    Regional Transmission Organizations: Millenium Order on Designing Market Institutions for Electric Network Systems

    Congestion Zones Full locational pricing at every node in the network is a natural consequence of the basic economics of a competitive ... Read Article

    Shared Services: More Than a Legal Play

    Background Recent dramatic changes in the electric utility industry have systematically motivated traditionally integrated utilities to functionally or legally unbundle their business ... Read Article

    Public Water Suppliers Look to Privatization

    New forces are reshaping the responsibilities of water and wastewater utilities. Although they come in different forms, water utilities conventionally serve the ... Read Article

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