Category: Enterprise Thought Leadership Archive

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Energy Service Providers (ESPs) seeking market entry in the United States face an often-underestimated series of market barriers. Strong product differentiation and ... Read Article