Commission Watch
The case for participant-funded transmission.
Planned or Private?
Silicon
Low-Tech vs. High-Tech AMP: The 21st Century IT Debate
Some want to cut costs, others to improve service.
Some want to cut costs, others to improve service.
Uncertain economic times have always moved companies to find ways to cut costs. Utilities and energy companies are no different. They have turned to automated meter reading (AMR) during the past years in increasing numbers.
But many technology experts disagree on strategy: should utilities go high-tech or low-tech on AMR?
People (April 1, 2002)
Edward F. Godfrey has been named to the Unitil board of directors. CH Energy Group appointed Steven V. Lant COO. Susan Glasmann and Alan Allred were named senior vice presidents for Questar Regulated Services, a subsidiary of Questar Corp. And others ...
The Energy Tech Chronicles: Will Bust Turn to Boom?
Overcoming many obstacles, energy technology continues to have potential.
Perspective
What's been missing - until now - are regional exchanges to provide access to networks.
Service to the 9's? Power Quality in a Tech-Wreck World
Why it's just as important for the old economy.
Why it's just as important for the old economy.
Mention "power quality" and the mind conjures up visions of tech hotels stuffed with Internet servers running 24/7, retrofitted into inner city industrial warehouses-buildings sturdy enough to forgive the heavy installation of custom power supply equipment and racks of batteries. Or perhaps Silicon Valley.
Distributed Generation: Doomed by Deployment Details?
The industry makes strides, but messy issues like air quality and building codes could be showstoppers.
Redundant Restructuring: How the Dual-Retailer Model Makes Electric Markets Too Complex
A call for utilities to leave the marketing business.
Many of us on the front lines can identify with Stanley Klein's observation that, in terms of its implementation, the restructuring of the electric power industry is "fundamentally an information technology event."1
Perspective
NIMBY: Now More Than Ever
Tracking Stock for Utilities: Highway to Higher Valuations?
Telecoms may offer IOUs a model for multiplying market caps by dividing their shareholdings.April 1, 2000