Tag: White Papers

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

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

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

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

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

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

The market for electric generation facilities has passed through several stages in the transition to more competitive markets. Questions over the viability ... Read Article

Pick up any current periodical – from CIO magazine to Fortune to BusinessWeek – and you only have to skim the table ... Read Article

Selection bias can be defined as “a nonrandom participation in a program offer leading to damaging financial results.” It can affect the ... Read Article

The energy and utilities marketplace is one of the most challenging business environments that exist today, and it is also an industry ... Read Article

For the first 50 years following the passage of the Depression-era Public Utilities Holding Company Act, governmental regulation of the electric utility ... Read Article

Investments in energy trading, curtailed in the wake of the turbulent years following 2000, have begun to swing back, and agile companies ... Read Article

Since the enactment of the National Energy Policy Act of 1992, there have been approximately 90 announced mergers between, or acquisitions of, ... Read Article

The production of electricity and gas, the primary sources of revenue for most utilities, requires a wide variety of assets. Most of ... Read Article

Who would have predicted that significant help in managing operational risks would come from such an unlikely source: Section 404 of the ... Read Article