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- Commodity Crisis: Are We Simply Avoiding the Real Issue? - By Gary M. Vasey, Ph.D.
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Date Released: 6/29/2009As I write this article, the price of crude oil has already exceeded $70/bbl for a time and other commodities such as coffee and sugar have also reached record prices. Media headlines are beginning once again to highlight "speculation" by hedge funds...
- Reformed Russian Power Markets Attract TRM Vendor Interest - By Gary M. Vasey, Ph.D.
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Date Released: 6/23/2009Russia is the fourth largest user of electricity in the world, but its regulated power markets have created a number of issues as demand growth has threatened security of supply on the back of lagging generation capacity investment. In fact, outage...
- Energy Infrastructure: Helping to Kick-Start the Economy - By James Griffin
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Date Released: 6/16/2009Although the current economic downturn first took hold in the United States, evidence suggests that it is hitting the European Union (EU) harder. Recent figures from the Eurostat statistics agency show that for the 27-nation bloc as a whole, the fi...
- Meters, Meters Everywhere, But Who Will Bear the Cost? - By James Griffin
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Date Released: 5/28/2009Some have called it the biggest shake-up of the UK's energy industry since the introduction of North Sea gas in the 1970s, and in terms of the “potential' to transform the industry it is easy to appreciate why. The UK government's recently announced ...
- As ETRM Becomes CTRM, Vendors Such as EKA Emerge - By Gary M. Vasey, Ph.D.
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Date Released: 5/22/2009One of the purposes in creating CommodityPoint as a Division of UtiliPoint earlier this year was to signal our intention that we would cover the broader commodities space rather than just energy commodities. Essentially, CommodityPoint provides resea...
- Managing Complex PPAs and Tolling Agreements Using Navita's CMS - By Gary M. Vasey, Ph.D.
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Date Released: 5/11/2009Independent power producers and utilities have several options with which to secure revenue streams for their generation facilities that range from straightforward Power Purchase Agreements through to very complex Tolling Agreements. In either case, ...
- UK Energy: A New Coal Rush? - By James Griffin
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Date Released: 5/5/2009For the UK government, the dilemma around coal's future in the energy mix has led to much head scratching. The fuel is abundant and relatively cheap, but it is of course known to be highly polluting. The simple, but challenging question has been: how...
- European Smart Utility Exchange - Part 1 - By Martin Dunlea
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Date Released: 4/28/2009“The future depends on what we do in the present.” Those words could well have been written to define the challenges utilities face on a daily basis as they comprehend a future of reduced carbon emissions, sustainable energy requirements and dispat...
- The Third Energy Package: A Little of Everything? - By James Griffin
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Date Released: 4/14/2009The European Union (EU) is well known for its compromises, and in analyzing its recent “informal” agreement on the final shape of the third energy package, it did not veer away from this tradition. The package, which still needs approval by the ful...
- Retail Energy Quotation and Contract Management Software—A New Software Category? - By Gary M. Vasey, Ph.D.
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Date Released: 4/8/2009Recently, UtiliPoint conducted a survey into the types of software used to support retail energy quotation and contract management functions within utilities that strongly suggests that there is confusion over exactly what constitutes a retail en...