Category: Enterprise Thought Leadership Archive

A paradigm shift in the utilities industry has been underway for some time now. For decades the industry was characterized by regional ... Read Article

Introduction Companies do not emerge into a competitive environment with immediate knowledge of how to compete safely and effectively. Companies faced with ... Read Article

In the decade since deregulation, utilities have had to balance two competing necessities — improving customer service and lowering costs. Automatic bill ... Read Article

The energy industry is in the midst of its most challenging period in more than three decades. The rapid convergence of the ... Read Article

Electricity and Gas Markets Have Become More Complex Energy industry deregulation is a relatively old story, though one that continues to unfold ... Read Article

Talk is cheap, but meaningful dialogue is valuable. For utilities, speaking to each segment of the market in its own language can ... Read Article

In the United States, the National Basketball Association and the utility industry may not have much in common fundamentally, but what they ... Read Article

Much has been written about the opportunities distributed-generation (DG) technologies offer the energy marketplace. DG will one day reduce local congestion, reduce ... Read Article

Introduction In an industry promising revolutionary advances nearly every day, one application has gone well beyond vision-speak: Internet bill presentment and payment(IBPP). ... Read Article

Introduction What is now known as the “California experiment in electricity deregulation” has sent shock waves around the world, particularly to other ... Read Article

The Power Grid: Platform for Competition The first step toward ensuring a healthy power sector is a simple affirmation: the grid plays ... Read Article

There are many disturbing practices and beliefs prevalent in the traditional electric and gas energy industry, but few more disturbing than the ... Read Article

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

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

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