• 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

    Defining Customer Valuation

    Most utilities view their interactions with customers – mainly monthly billing and payment – as highly routine, with neither party giving a ... Read Article

    The Hydrogen Economy

    The expression “hydrogen economy” is appearing more and more frequently in the headlines and on the bookstands. As recently as February 2005 ... Read Article

    Goodbye AMR, Hello AMM

    Not long ago, the decision to pursue an automated meter reading (AMR) project was straightforward to describe and quantify. The business case ... Read Article

    On Better Business Intelligence

    Utilities are working hard to address new financial control and reporting requirements, making progress on significant cost reduction and revenue enhancement initiatives ... 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

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