• 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

    The RTO Endgame – Slower and More Political Than Once Thought

    The Broken “E” Bubble Being both a student of history and a participant in the recent events in California, it’s with some ... Read Article

    The Entry of New Retailers and Their Search for Customers

    Background The unbundling of the traditional energy company in the face of industry restructuring has exposed to competition areas traditionally overlooked by ... Read Article

    Utilities and the Fourth Stage of E-Business

    Cost savings through automation of business interactions has never been more appealing. Re-thinking our approach to inter-business transactions and re-applying existing and ... Read Article

    The Virtual Logistics Department: Next Generation Logistics Exchanges

    By integrating advanced tools and functionality, logistics exchanges can gain critical competitive differentiation. PDF download Context The emergence of the B2B exchange ... Read Article

    e-business in a Competitive Utility Industry: Managing to Become an e-business

    Introduction The restructuring of the utilities industry is now a global phenomenon. Many utility companies are recasting business strategies to meet the ... Read Article

    Electric Restructuring: A View from the Open Market

    The difference between these positions has had a critical impact on the process of industry restructuring. In the first instance, it is ... Read Article

    Enterprise Service Delivery for the Utility Industry

    Regardless of how the utility positions itself, restructuring is forcing the utility to focus on: Reducing operating/maintenance costs Obtaining a return-on-investment for ... Read Article

    Growth Strategies for Energy Companies

    The result of all of this? Energy companies must develop coherent strategies for sustainable growth. To help guide that process, this white ... Read Article

    Pioneering Privatized Transmission: National Grid''s Perspective

    Based on my experience at National Grid, I maintain that to be most successful, transmission must be independent – in terms of ... Read Article

    The Web-Enabled Utility

    The Business Internet is the realization of the vision of a Digital Nervous System in which information flows quickly through an organization ... Read Article

    Information Technology and the New Energy Industry Model

    For the past 50 years, the utility industry landscape has been dominated by the vertically-integrated business model, with companies owning and operating ... Read Article

    Regional Transmission Organizations: Linchpins of Restructuring

    Recognizing the new reality, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) declared in Order No. 888 that, with easy entry, plentiful gas supplies, ... Read Article

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