• Preventive Maintenance Strategies for Deregulation

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

    Achieve Competing Goals With Automatic Bill Payment

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

    How Did We Get Here?

    For eight decades, the electricity supply industry and its customers enjoyed the benefits of increasing economies of scale. Electric utilities, people reasoned, ... Read Article

    The Third Wave of Convergence in Energy Markets

    Wave One: The Traditional Regulatory Framework The traditional regulatory framework created a convergence of energy prices with the costs of constructing, maintaining, ... Read Article

    Advantages of the RHPH Model for Internet-Based Electronic Procurement

    The L-Hub model is positioned favorably in the e-procurement market space, in large part because of the sheer size of regional economies ... Read Article

    Report from New England: Lessons Learned on the Road to Competition

    This white paper reviews the restructuring experiences in three New England states – Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine – and their trials ... Read Article

    Why Do Energy Companies Trade?

    Companies that trade – and trade well – have an advantage over companies that don’t, but typically that advantage is more subtle ... Read Article

    E-Markets: Creating the Future of Business-to-Business Online

    A Foundation for the Future Now consider the Internet, which creates unprecedented opportunities for companies to readily participate in, and even create, ... 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

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