• Understanding and Driving Consumer Adoption of E-Bills

    This is an excerpt. To read this paper in it’s entirety: Understanding and Driving Consumer Adoption of E-Bills Introduction Online bill payment ... Read Article

    Audit Committees Step Up Risk Oversight

    When the audit committee of a publicly traded company sits down to meet, what’s on the agenda? What issues are considered most ... Read Article

    Best Practices in Distribution Asset and Work Management

    Utilities face escalating operational expenses due to rising fuel costs and increasing investment costs for environmental regulation while simultaneously being limited in ... Read Article

    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

    Survival Skills for Utility Mergers

    The recent surge in merger, acquisition and divestiture activity in the U.S. utilities industry has come as no surprise to leaders in ... Read Article

    Examining Business Process Outsourcing

    What does next-level utility performance look like? The energy industry may be one of the most complex business environments, as it is ... Read Article

    Shifting Regulatory Oversight of Utility Mergers

    Many in the energy industry are anticipating a wave of mergers that will fundamentally alter and concentrate the energy industry, both from ... 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
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