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- The Big Picture - Can You See It? - By Larry Gill
Daily IssueAlert
Date Released: 6/30/2008UtiliPoint has had the opportunity to meet with several of the business leaders from utilities, vendors and outsourcers to ask their opinions on the changing environment in the utility sector and what it means to their organization. When asked the...
- Benchmarking and Functional Models in Regulatory Price Reviews - By Martin Dunlea
European Issuealert
Date Released: 6/30/2008Utility rate reviews are now a common part of the day to day activities of utility operations and organisations face a myriad of reviews and operational standards assessment across IT and business functions. Although energy and regulatory price asses...
- Benchmarks and Indicators for Electric Fuel Adjustment Clauses (Part VII of a Series) - By George Campbell
Daily IssueAlert
Date Released: 6/25/2008Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. Albert Einstein If all electric utilities had the same generation mix and customer demand profiles, benchmarking their ...
- EU Unbundling: Compromises & Concessions - By James Griffin
European Issuealert
Date Released: 6/23/2008“All member states have shown a great degree of goodwill to reach a compromise which is acceptable for all,” said European Union (EU) Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs in reaction to the June 6 “ownership unbundling” deal struck by energy ministers...
- Carbon Cap and Trade—The Balancing Act - By Patrick Reames
Daily IssueAlert
Date Released: 6/23/2008The first attempt to bring forth cap and trade legislation to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions died earlier this month when the Lieberman-Warner-Boxer Climate Change Bill failed in the Senate on procedural grounds. While the bill received more su...
- Navita Systems—An ETRM Vendor Profile - By Gary M. Vasey, Ph.D.
European Issuealert
Date Released: 6/18/2008The energy trading, transaction and risk management (ETRM) software vendor landscape in Europe is somewhat similar to that in North America, but with the addition of an important European vendor: Navita. Navita emerged in 2003 out of a management bu...
- Managing Carbon Assets on an Enterprise Level - By Peter C. Fusaro
Daily IssueAlert
Date Released: 6/18/2008The emergence of global carbon markets will not only uncover value and liabilities for corporations, but will also require active carbon asset management on an enterprise level. Ron Dembo, founder of Algorithmics, has recently raised this issue, and...
- SmartGrid is Smart Utility Business: Aligning Environmental, Customer and Utility Operational Benefits - By Ethan L. Cohen
Daily IssueAlert
Date Released: 6/16/2008Across the industry, utilities may be struggling with a common definition of "Smart Grid"; and one can be certain that they will continue to do so. However, the concepts of SmartGrid and the benefits of SmartGrid infrastructure and SmartGrid business...
- Electric Fuel Adjustment Clause Improvements: Where Has All the Research Gone? (Part VI of a Series) - By George Campbell
Daily IssueAlert
Date Released: 6/13/2008If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? — Albert Einstein The Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) opened a docket in November of last year to investigate the potential of fuel adjustmen...
- Smarter Than the Average Grid - By James Griffin
Daily IssueAlert
Date Released: 6/10/2008It is easy to take for granted the system that manufactures and transports electricity. It is part and parcel of our everyday lives. And when it works, who notices it? Yet, if it fails on occasions, then it can quickly become front page news. Since t...