Corporate Integration: Keys to Success
Stage-by-stage advice from an M&A veteran.
Company leaders should expect to go through at least one company merger. If you’re in the energy industry, it’s time to begin pre-deal initiatives.
Fortnightly Magazine - October 2006
Stay Online With Partial Discharge Testing
How to maintain continuous power supply while measuring for weak spots.
Failures in medium-voltage power cables and their components cause a large proportion of annual power service interruptions, especially in high-density urban areas. Locating and repairing weak areas in cables at an early stage can improve the reliability of the energy supply considerably. Partial discharge testing is a proven condition assessment/test methodology.
Betting Against the Gods
In search of the Holy Grail of utility risk management.
The search is on for the Holy Grail of risk management. Utilities are managing new risks, as more sophisticated systems and services become available.
Risk Management Starts at the Top
How to sort out strategies and weather the storm.
Unless embraced as an integral part of the business strategy, risk management is nothing more than a bureaucratic exercise that lulls the management and directors into a false sense of security.
Letters to the Editor
Robert Garvin, MAJ, TC, 3RD Corps Support Command: Serving here and seeing how poor the people of Iraq are after 30 years of a dictatorship is truly life changing. You would not believe the electricity challenges they face here. In a country of over 25 million people, Iraq has only about 5,000 MW of electricity at any given time.
Daniel Simon decided to investigate how much the extra heat of incandescent light bulbs over CFLs might cost a customer in air-conditioning cooling costs, compared to an analysis in “Squeezing BTUs From Light Bulbs.”