• Public Power: Bucking the Trend

    As a result of the early failures of deregulation in the United States, we have learned two critically important lessons about the ... Read Article

    A Deluge of Regulation

    The casualties continue to mount in the devastated landscape of the post-Enron world. We know now that Enron was the beginning of ... Read Article

    Markets Need Customers

    The average electricity customer has fled from electricity restructuring, returned to the utility from competitive suppliers, and voted for politicians who kill ... Read Article

    Asset Health and Wealth

    Recent events in the energy marketplace and the failure of unregulated businesses have put greater emphasis on regulated businesses. Given this backdrop, ... Read Article

    America''s Next Nightmare: SMD

    Reliable, low-cost electric energy makes the American economy go. It is the essential service, so necessary to modern life that its momentary ... Read Article

    Real-Time IT in Electric Markets

    Energy companies transact close to a million dollars a day for physical delivery in markets run by independent systems operators. The settlement ... Read Article

    California: Policy and Reform

    In the post-Cold War era, we supposedly all understand the benefits of privatization and the deregulation of markets. They bring efficiency, innovation, ... Read Article

    Automating Maintenance Part of Seabrook''s Pursuit of Excellence: An MRO Software Case Study

    To say that the Seabrook nuclear power station has had a tumultuous history is an understatement. The Boston Globe called it the ... Read Article

    Electricity Reform That Works

    The near meltdown of the California electricity markets prompted many, both inside and outside government, to question whether deregulation can work and, ... Read Article

    MAXIMO Fuels Columbia Gas Transmission''s Maintenance Activities: An MRO Software Case Study

    Columbia Gas Transmission, an operating company of NiSource, Inc., offers a variety of competitively priced natural gas transportation and storage services built ... Read Article

    RTO Technology Vision

    Perhaps we should not measure the role of technology in realizing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Standard Market Design by the volume ... Read Article

    Meeting Information Demands

    Over the past year, the energy industry has experienced a tremendous increase in the type and amount of information demanded by regulators ... Read Article

    The Lessons of Deregulation

    As leaders in the utility industry, part of your job is to conjure up a full understanding of both the perils and ... Read Article

    Network Asset Maintenance

    In many jurisdictions, any negative customer impact is felt by the utility as a penalty payment, so network performance (system outages, voltage ... Read Article

    The Myth of Deregulation

    In 1996, California passed the nation’s first and boldest electricity deregulation law. As we all know now, the state jumped off a ... Read Article
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