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- Europe's Smart Grid—Innovation Inertia - By Martin Dunlea
European Issuealert
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 ...
- Electric Fuel Adjustment Clauses: Should There be Active or Passive Management? (Part VIII of a Series) - By George Campbell
Daily IssueAlert
Date Released: 8/18/2008Active management refers to a portfolio management strategy where the manager makes specific investments with the goal of outperforming a benchmark index. Should a vertically integrated electric utility (VIEU) be actively managing the fuel adjustm...
- Timing is Everything: The Case for Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards and Tradable White Certificates - By Peter C. Fusaro and Howard Siegel
Daily IssueAlert
Date Released: 8/15/2008Sometimes a great idea requires great timing to ignite public recognition and action. Energy efficiency has long been a great idea; however, not until the recent convergence of higher sustained energy prices and demand for carbon footprint reducti...
- Retail Marketer Valuation Explained - By Mark Burlingame
Daily IssueAlert
Date Released: 8/14/2008Despite a stalled electric and gas market restructuring in the United States, UtiliPoint still receives inquiries from investors on how to value energy marketers. Over the past few years, marketer acquisition prices have varied greatly when mea...
- Offshore Wind: The Floating Option - By James Griffin
European Issuealert
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...
- Has the Growth of Electronic Bill Presentment & Payment Reached a Plateau in the Utility Industry? - By Christopher Perdue
Daily IssueAlert
Date Released: 8/1/2008Historically, electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) has been a convenience that utilities have supported in increasing numbers over the last few years. However, recent research conducted by UtiliPoint ® International suggests that EBPP's ...
- A UtiliPoint Interview with Dr. Chris Strickland, Director of Lacima Group - By Gary M. Vasey, Ph.D.
Daily IssueAlert
Date Released: 7/30/2008In 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 comm...
- Vertex Acquires Alliance Data Utilities: An Interview with John Hall - By Jon T. Brock
Daily IssueAlert
Date Released: 7/29/2008In news from Monday, July 28, 2008, UK-based Vertex has finalized its acquisition of Alliance Data’s Utility Division, which provides sourced meter-to-cash business processes and related professional services to utilities in North America. From the A...
- Rising Gas Prices - A Case for Better Hedging Practices - By Martin Dunlea and Gary M. Vasey, Ph.D.
European Issuealert
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...
- Updates and Additional Thoughts - By Patrick Reames
Daily IssueAlert
Date Released: 7/28/2008Obviously, one of the realities in writing a topical article like those in UtiliPoint's Issue Alert articles is that the article represents developments around that topic up until the time the article is submitted by the author. But, as they say,...