• 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

    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

    e-business in a Competitive Utility Industry: Managing to Become an e-business

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

    Electric Restructuring: A View from the Open Market

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

    Enterprise Service Delivery for the Utility Industry

    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

    Growth Strategies for Energy Companies

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