• 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

    Preface from PricewaterhouseCoopers

    We are delighted that you are about to read these pages, which we are confident will give you unique and timely insights ... Read Article

    Assault on the Citadel: The ISO Answers its Critics

    The thrust of the anti-ISO argument rests on two flawed and interrelated propositions: (1) that, incentivized by the profit motive and market-based ... Read Article

    Java Technology for Business Intelligence

    Figure 1 Typical infrastructure required for developing and deploying Business Intelligence applications See larger image Business intelligence makes the enterprise “smart.” Although ... Read Article

    e-business in a Competitive Utility Industry: Managing to Become an e-business

    Introduction The restructuring of the utilities industry is now a global phenomenon. Many utility companies are recasting business strategies to meet the ... Read Article

    Electric Restructuring: A View from the Open Market

    The difference between these positions has had a critical impact on the process of industry restructuring. In the first instance, it is ... Read Article

    Enterprise Service Delivery for the Utility Industry

    Regardless of how the utility positions itself, restructuring is forcing the utility to focus on: Reducing operating/maintenance costs Obtaining a return-on-investment for ... 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
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