• Informed Decision Making

    Corporate management is increasingly called upon to make complex critical decisions in short time frames. Consolidations within industries, competition to maintain competitive ... Read Article

    Becoming an On-Demand Utility

    A switch is flipped, and there is light. A knob is turned, and there is heat. What industry can be more on ... Read Article

    Asset Management – Do You Know Your Risk?

    Asset management is the focus for most utilities, primarily because of cost pressures resulting from the limited availability of capital and O&M ... Read Article

    Exploiting Broadband Over Power Lines

    Broadband over power lines (BPL) and power line communications (PLC) are sets of equipment, software and management services that when overlaid on ... Read Article

    Q&A: Meter Reading – Past and Future

    Q: In 1997, as Puget Sound Power and Light, you merged with Washington Natural Gas and became Puget Sound Energy. Was it ... Read Article

    Setting a Course for Growth

    Within the next few years, energy and utility companies will be operating in a more disaggregated, multinational industry. The demands of this ... Read Article

    The New New Grid

    Under pressure from four distinct sources – aging assets, growing peak demand, the emergence of new power generation technologies and revenue constraints ... Read Article

    Re-Evaluating a Core/Noncore Electric Market

    It is difficult to discuss or propose a core/noncore market structure without discussing California’s previous retail market restructuring effort. Many academics and ... Read Article

    Toward Intelligent Grids

    The promise of the intelligent energy grid remains elusive; however, a steady wave of innovation in communication and information technologies, combined with ... Read Article

    Prioritizing Growth

    After years of cost cutting and risk management to bring companies “back to the basics” in response to the market anomalies, reliability ... Read Article

    Transforming Communication Infrastructure

    For a long time the standard point-to-point analog line to a substation was all that was needed in the grid of the ... Read Article

    Good Energy Policy = Balanced and Diversified

    Dear Secretary Bodman: Thank you for your outreach to democrats, former Energy secretaries and Western governors. I represent each of these categories ... Read Article

    The LNG Question

    During 2000, natural gas prices in the United States took a longanticipated turn, and market watchers are now waiting (at the time ... Read Article

    Restructuring as Erosion

    Throughout 2005, five anniversaries will mark mileposts in public power’s pursuit to protect electricity consumers and strengthen the value of community ownership ... Read Article

    Putting Performance First

    Poor financial performance in 2001-2003 has led utilities to re-examine their management approach. Utilities that are making it out of the slump ... Read Article

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