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- Europe's Smart Grid—Innovation Inertia - By Martin Dunlea
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Date Released: 8/25/2008The Case for Innovative Change During the first International Conference on the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources and Distributed Energy Resources held in December 2004, stakeholders and the research community suggested the creation of a ...
- Offshore Wind: The Floating Option - By James Griffin
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Date Released: 8/12/2008For the European Union (EU), offshore wind power is viewed as central to the group's commitment to generate 20 percent of its energy from renewables by 2020. Its potential highlights why. According to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), if b...
- Rising Gas Prices - A Case for Better Hedging Practices - By Martin Dunlea and Gary M. Vasey, Ph.D.
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Date Released: 7/28/2008At the time of writing this Issue Alert article, gas energy companies all over Europe are in the process of applying to their national regulators for interim gas price increases. Increases in the high teens are not unusual; with projected cost inc...
- Europe Backpedals on Biofuels - By James Griffin
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Date Released: 7/22/2008Only a few years ago, biofuels were viewed by some in the European Union (EU) as perhaps the best way to improve security of supply, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and offer new sources of income to people dependent on agriculture. It was the new k...
- A UtiliPoint Interview with Dr. Chris Strickland, Director of Lacima Group - By Gary M. Vasey, Ph.d.
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Date Released: 7/15/2008In today's more volatile, faster moving and more unpredictable commodity markets, sound risk management is even more important than it once was. Furthermore, I have made many arguments in past Issue Alert articles that structural change in commodi...
- UK Renewable Targets:
Ambitious, but Achievable? - By James Griffin
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Date Released: 7/8/2008“We are opening a new chapter in Britain's history as a nation of enterprise and innovation, moving from the old, carbon intensive economy of the industrial revolution to the new low carbon technologies of the 21st century,” said John Hutton, the UK ...
- Benchmarking and Functional Models in Regulatory Price Reviews - By Martin Dunlea
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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...
- EU Unbundling: Compromises & Concessions - By James Griffin
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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...
- Navita Systems—An ETRM Vendor Profile - By Gary M. Vasey, Ph.D.
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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...
- Lots of Energy in Prague - By Gary M. Vasey, Ph.D. and Jon T. Brock
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Date Released: 6/5/2008Prague—a beautiful city and a tremendous initial location for UtiliPoint's First Annual European Executive Summit which took place April 28 & 29, 2008 at The Hotel Palace Praha, located just around the corner from Wenceslas Square in old town Pra...