Category: Enterprise Thought Leadership Archive

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

The embryonic field of nanotechnology, which has been receiving much attention of late, aspires to the control of matter at molecular and ... Read Article

The term asset management has taken center stage for most utility transmission and distribution, primarily because of cost pressures resulting from limited ... Read Article

Organizations today are challenged with simultaneously improving performance and lowering costs. Many are discovering that the key lies in “reinventing service” by ... Read Article

Utility bad debt is increasing year-on-year according to market research group Chartwell in its 2004 report, Credit and Collections in the Utility ... Read Article

The principal driver of energy consumption and demand growth in the United States is increased population. The nation’s population is growing at ... Read Article

Most utilities view their interactions with customers – mainly monthly billing and payment – as highly routine, with neither party giving a ... Read Article

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