• The Liability of Cost Cutting: A CEO’s New Challenge

    When financial results don’t meet expectations, senior executives face five dreaded words that have become much too common: “We need to cut ... Read Article

    Leveraging Operational Systems Assets to Realize Their Full Value

    The electric utility industry finds itself confronted by a dynamic regulatory and market environment that is necessitating changes at all levels of ... Read Article

    Information Is Power: The Intelligent Utility Network

    In the United States, utility industry forces are driving substantial changes in strategy for T&D businesses. The U.S. Energy Policy Act of ... Read Article

    Technology Support for Utility Analytics

    Intelligent utility networks (IUNs), also known in the electric power industry as intelligent grids, smart grids or modern grids, make use of ... Read Article

    The Emergence of the Intelligent Utility: A New View of Service Delivery

    Utilities encountered a decade of challenges in the 1990s – utility diversification, attempts to adjust to emerging regulatory opportunities and distractions from ... Read Article

    INTERVIEW: Alan H. Richardson

    Energy & Utilities: Let’s start by taking a look at the state of the electric utility industry marketplace as it relates to ... Read Article

    Communication Technology Considerations for the Intelligent Utility Network

    Most industries have experienced significant transformations over the past few decades, which have resulted in improved business processes and a more efficient ... Read Article

    Energy Independence Is Cool(er)?

    There is growing interest in the U.S. both in achieving some increased degree of energy independence and in reducing CO2 emissions to ... Read Article

    The Energy Policy Act of 2005

    On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 into law, following four long years of ... Read Article

    Fusion of Work Management and Supply Chain Management

    Asset life cycle management is an asset management strategy designed to manage the cradle-to-grave life cycle of key assets, considering all classes, ... Read Article

    The World’s Hottest Retail Energy Markets

    The number of retail energy markets open to competition grows year-on-year and research carried out by Peace Software and VaasaEmg has provided ... Read Article

    Preparing for Automated Metering

    Over the past year, technology advances and high energy prices have stimulated interest in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). Discussions are wide-ranging. Some ... Read Article

    Weather Forecasting for Utility Companies

    Weather-sensitive business operations are primarily reactive to shortterm (three to 36 hours) local conditions (city, county, state) due to the unavailability of ... Read Article

    Addressing the Aging Utility Workforce Challenge: ACT NOW

    For several years, industry writers have been warning of the “impending aging workforce crisis.” Demographic data has been analyzed and presented, and ... Read Article

    Talkin’ ’Bout our Generation

    Energy independence has been an increasingly popular goal in the United States. However, “a goal without a plan is just a wish,” ... Read Article
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