• 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

    Network Asset Maintenance

    In many jurisdictions, any negative customer impact is felt by the utility as a penalty payment, so network performance (system outages, voltage ... Read Article

    The Myth of Deregulation

    In 1996, California passed the nation’s first and boldest electricity deregulation law. As we all know now, the state jumped off a ... Read Article

    On Performance Management

    As the energy industry evolves, leveraging business intelligence becomes ever more important. The well-publicized problems of major energy traders over the last ... Read Article

    We Need Standard Market Design

    No doubt in the future we will look back at this time as a turning point in the history of America’s $225 ... Read Article

    Yallourn Energy Powers Maintenance Efforts with MRO Software''s Strategic Asset Management Solution: An MRO Software Case Study

    Based in the Latrobe Valley in the Australian state of Victoria, 150 kilometers east of Melbourne, Yallourn Energy operates Australia’s second largest ... Read Article

    The Best Laid Schemes…

    Back in the good old days before restructuring, I used a simple formula to pick electric utility stocks for the elderly, blue-haired ... Read Article

    The Double-Edged Sword of Equating Supply and Demand

    Electric system reliability is a political necessity. The reverberations from California’s rolling black-outs have stalled the trend towards generation market deregulation, which ... Read Article

    The Connected Home: The Open Services Gateway is Fulfilling the Promise of the Internet Lifestyle

    Wouldn’t it be wonderful to automate some of your household chores, and leave home knowing that everything is safe and secure? With ... Read Article

    Electricity Supply Organization: Which End is Up?

    Since the FERC’s July 2001 order to form four large RTOs, chaos has returned to the short-term planning and management of the ... Read Article
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