Tag: White Papers

Disruptive Technologies

With the collapse of energy trading and the slowing of retail deregulation, energy and utility companies are going back to the basics. ... Read Article

Can the Merchant Sector Survive?

Within the energy industry, the merchant sector has gone from one of the most promising areas to one of the most troubled. ... Read Article

Public Power: Bucking the Trend

As a result of the early failures of deregulation in the United States, we have learned two critically important lessons about the ... Read Article

A Deluge of Regulation

The casualties continue to mount in the devastated landscape of the post-Enron world. We know now that Enron was the beginning of ... Read Article

Markets Need Customers

The average electricity customer has fled from electricity restructuring, returned to the utility from competitive suppliers, and voted for politicians who kill ... Read Article

Asset Health and Wealth

Recent events in the energy marketplace and the failure of unregulated businesses have put greater emphasis on regulated businesses. Given this backdrop, ... Read Article

America''s Next Nightmare: SMD

Reliable, low-cost electric energy makes the American economy go. It is the essential service, so necessary to modern life that its momentary ... Read Article

Real-Time IT in Electric Markets

Energy companies transact close to a million dollars a day for physical delivery in markets run by independent systems operators. The settlement ... Read Article

California: Policy and Reform

In the post-Cold War era, we supposedly all understand the benefits of privatization and the deregulation of markets. They bring efficiency, innovation, ... Read Article

Automating Maintenance Part of Seabrook''s Pursuit of Excellence: An MRO Software Case Study

To say that the Seabrook nuclear power station has had a tumultuous history is an understatement. The Boston Globe called it the ... Read Article

Electricity Reform That Works

The near meltdown of the California electricity markets prompted many, both inside and outside government, to question whether deregulation can work and, ... Read Article

MAXIMO Fuels Columbia Gas Transmission''s Maintenance Activities: An MRO Software Case Study

Columbia Gas Transmission, an operating company of NiSource, Inc., offers a variety of competitively priced natural gas transportation and storage services built ... Read Article

RTO Technology Vision

Perhaps we should not measure the role of technology in realizing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Standard Market Design by the volume ... Read Article

Meeting Information Demands

Over the past year, the energy industry has experienced a tremendous increase in the type and amount of information demanded by regulators ... Read Article

The Lessons of Deregulation

As leaders in the utility industry, part of your job is to conjure up a full understanding of both the perils and ... Read Article
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