• 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

    Pioneering Privatized Transmission: National Grid''s Perspective

    Based on my experience at National Grid, I maintain that to be most successful, transmission must be independent – in terms of ... Read Article

    The Web-Enabled Utility

    The Business Internet is the realization of the vision of a Digital Nervous System in which information flows quickly through an organization ... Read Article

    Information Technology and the New Energy Industry Model

    For the past 50 years, the utility industry landscape has been dominated by the vertically-integrated business model, with companies owning and operating ... Read Article

    Regional Transmission Organizations: Linchpins of Restructuring

    Recognizing the new reality, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) declared in Order No. 888 that, with easy entry, plentiful gas supplies, ... Read Article

    Surmounting Retail Energy Market Barriers Through Selective Business Focus

    Energy Service Providers (ESPs) seeking market entry in the United States face an often-underestimated series of market barriers. Strong product differentiation and ... Read Article

    The Innovation Imperative

    The Value of Innovation As described by Peter Drucker, innovation refers to the function of entrepreneurship, the means by which new wealth-producing ... Read Article

    Regional Transmission Organizations: Millenium Order on Designing Market Institutions for Electric Network Systems

    Congestion Zones Full locational pricing at every node in the network is a natural consequence of the basic economics of a competitive ... Read Article

    Shared Services: More Than a Legal Play

    Background Recent dramatic changes in the electric utility industry have systematically motivated traditionally integrated utilities to functionally or legally unbundle their business ... Read Article

    Public Water Suppliers Look to Privatization

    New forces are reshaping the responsibilities of water and wastewater utilities. Although they come in different forms, water utilities conventionally serve the ... Read Article

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