Tag: White Papers

A recent study of 153 cross-industry chief financial officers (CFOs) reveals that commercialsectorCFOs (those in manufacturing, high tech, transportation, retail and communicationsenterprises) ... Read Article

Background The physical nature of electricity imposes market constraints quite unlike those seen in other energy markets. With today’s technology, electricity storage ... Read Article

A New Taxonomy The forces of change shaping the energy industry will combine with continued regulatory pressure to further fragment the industry ... Read Article

Utilities have no experience with competition or strategies for winning customers when primarily dealing with a product like electricity or natural gas. ... Read Article

Measuring Nuclear Power Plant Performance in the 1990s With competition in electricity markets, here is concern that reliability and safety at nuclear ... Read Article

“You have to breathe all day to stay at your desk, don’t you?” Jack Welch, CEO General Electric Global market conditions for ... Read Article

It is important to start by clarifying what is meant by my use of the term “liberalization.” To “liberalize” has a number ... Read Article

Although we can be certain that significant changes are coming to the energy marketplace, the crystal ball is cloudy as to the ... Read Article

Although the notion of consolidation is not new, advances in open system functionality on the part of hardware vendors over the past ... Read Article

For eight decades, the electricity supply industry and its customers enjoyed the benefits of increasing economies of scale. Electric utilities, people reasoned, ... Read Article

Wave One: The Traditional Regulatory Framework The traditional regulatory framework created a convergence of energy prices with the costs of constructing, maintaining, ... Read Article

The L-Hub model is positioned favorably in the e-procurement market space, in large part because of the sheer size of regional economies ... Read Article

This white paper reviews the restructuring experiences in three New England states – Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine – and their trials ... Read Article

Companies that trade – and trade well – have an advantage over companies that don’t, but typically that advantage is more subtle ... Read Article

A Foundation for the Future Now consider the Internet, which creates unprecedented opportunities for companies to readily participate in, and even create, ... Read Article