• Open Letter to California''s Governor

    Dear Gov. Schwarzenegger: As academics and former government officials with a broad understanding of energy and regulatory issues, we followed with interest ... Read Article

    Economic Development Partnering

    Regulated utilities compete every day. They try to persuade other corporations to locate operations within the utility’s service area. Today, all corporations ... Read Article

    Sarbanes-Oxley – A Call to Action

    If you work for a publicly traded US company, chances are you’re pretty familiar with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). As a result ... Read Article

    On-Demand Practices for Utilities

    Not all outages can be prevented, nor is it economically feasible to do so. But customers are demanding new levels of service ... Read Article

    Driving the Enterprise

    Enterprise performance management (EPM) is a slippery term that is difficult to define. It has a few aliases, such as corporate performance ... Read Article

    Managing Customers for Value

    Customer relationships are the most important asset of an energy retailer and represent the value of an energy retail business. Yet how ... Read Article

    Energy Asset Optimization

    Since the latter half of 2002, the industry has been in a back-to-basics mode of operation. The focus, once on unregulated businesses ... Read Article

    The CIS Market in Transformation

    Customer information systems (CIS) is a hub for customer-facing and revenue cycle processing activity with functional footprint covering operational and a segment ... Read Article

    Price Discovery and Data Hubs

    Gas and electricity price indices play a central role in the price discovery process in the energy market. Moreover, these indices are ... Read Article

    AMR – More Than Reading a Meter

    Ten years ago, unleaded gas cost an average of $1.11 per gallon, the median family income was about $45,000, natural gas cost ... Read Article

    Will M&A Return?

    The volume of utility merger and acquisition transactions declined precipitously in North America over the last two years following what was an ... Read Article

    Global Sourcing: Getting Started

    Sourcing work to offshore locations and/or moving global resources to domestic locations to perform work has been gaining momentum over the last ... Read Article

    Trends in Bill Payment

    One of the most significant trends within the payments market is the increasing substitution of electronic forms of payment for traditional paper-based ... Read Article

    The Big Shift Change

    Let us look at one situation with two very different endings. Reliable operations, employee safety, and corporate profitability are all at stake. ... Read Article

    Understanding Risk Management

    Greater recognition of the correlation among the risks in energy marketing activities, asset management and operations, and the energy regulatory environment is ... Read Article

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