Tag: White Papers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The US depends on large, centralized power plants that run on fossil fuels and nuclear power. As a result, it has an ... Read Article

With its vast potential, economic competitiveness, and rapid growth rate, wind energy is poised to become a significant power source in the ... Read Article