• Talk to Me: Outsourcing to Make Big Gains with Small Businesses

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

    Utilitiy Mergers and Acquisitions: No Slam Dunk

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

    A Thousand Points of (Power and) Light: Unlocking the Potential of Distributed Generation

    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

    The IBPP Revolution Meets – and Exceeds – Expectations

    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

    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

    The Global Power Company of the Future

    The initial stages of the liberalization process currently underway across parts of the globe see individual countries separating out the traditional monopoly ... Read Article

    Nuclear Power Poised To Assume Larger Role In Energy Production

    The nuclear industry has proven that it can be an efficient producer of electric power while operating in a manner that is ... Read Article

    How Standards Enhance Energy Competition

    Birth of the GISB The creation of this new, cooperative organization not only made good business sense, but it also addressed concerns ... Read Article

    The Global Utility: The Experience from an Acquisition Made in the United States by a Foreign Utility

    Our story starts in 1991. After 40 years of government ownership, the U.K. electricity industry began to privatize in 1990. England and ... Read Article

    Grid Reliability and Power Quality Solutions for the Digital Economy with the Virtual Power Plant

    Figure 1 Types of Energy Trading Exchanges (Source: AMR Research, 2000; courtesy of ENCORP, Inc. ©2000) See larger image The confluence of ... Read Article

    Internet Trading Exchanges To Drive Further Utilities Restructuring

    Key Term: Portals Defined A dizzying array of terms is used to describe the various online communities available to utility companies to ... Read Article

    Preface from PricewaterhouseCoopers

    We are delighted that you are about to read these pages, which we are confident will give you unique and timely insights ... Read Article

    Assault on the Citadel: The ISO Answers its Critics

    The thrust of the anti-ISO argument rests on two flawed and interrelated propositions: (1) that, incentivized by the profit motive and market-based ... Read Article

    Java Technology for Business Intelligence

    Figure 1 Typical infrastructure required for developing and deploying Business Intelligence applications See larger image Business intelligence makes the enterprise “smart.” Although ... Read Article

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