• 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

    Post-Merger Integration: Doing the Right Deal and Doing the Deal Right

    The energy industry is in the midst of its most challenging period in more than three decades. The rapid convergence of the ... Read Article

    The Role of Web-Based Dynamic Trading in the Restructured Electric and Gas Markets

    Electricity and Gas Markets Have Become More Complex Energy industry deregulation is a relatively old story, though one that continues to unfold ... Read Article

    Talk to Me: Outsourcing to Make Big Gains with Small Businesses

    Talk is cheap, but meaningful dialogue is valuable. For utilities, speaking to each segment of the market in its own language can ... Read Article

    Utilitiy Mergers and Acquisitions: No Slam Dunk

    In the United States, the National Basketball Association and the utility industry may not have much in common fundamentally, but what they ... Read Article

    A Thousand Points of (Power and) Light: Unlocking the Potential of Distributed Generation

    Much has been written about the opportunities distributed-generation (DG) technologies offer the energy marketplace. DG will one day reduce local congestion, reduce ... Read Article

    The IBPP Revolution Meets – and Exceeds – Expectations

    Introduction In an industry promising revolutionary advances nearly every day, one application has gone well beyond vision-speak: Internet bill presentment and payment(IBPP). ... Read Article

    Avoiding the Untenable Model

    Introduction What is now known as the “California experiment in electricity deregulation” has sent shock waves around the world, particularly to other ... Read Article

    It''s Time to Break the Gridlock

    The Power Grid: Platform for Competition The first step toward ensuring a healthy power sector is a simple affirmation: the grid plays ... Read Article

    Choice!

    There are many disturbing practices and beliefs prevalent in the traditional electric and gas energy industry, but few more disturbing than the ... Read Article

    The Best Laid Schemes…

    Back in the good old days before restructuring, I used a simple formula to pick electric utility stocks for the elderly, blue-haired ... Read Article

    The Double-Edged Sword of Equating Supply and Demand

    Electric system reliability is a political necessity. The reverberations from California’s rolling black-outs have stalled the trend towards generation market deregulation, which ... Read Article

    The Connected Home: The Open Services Gateway is Fulfilling the Promise of the Internet Lifestyle

    Wouldn’t it be wonderful to automate some of your household chores, and leave home knowing that everything is safe and secure? With ... Read Article

    Electricity Supply Organization: Which End is Up?

    Since the FERC’s July 2001 order to form four large RTOs, chaos has returned to the short-term planning and management of the ... Read Article
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