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Recently Published
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Telecommunications InfoGrid - January 2002
(downloadable)
Publisher: SCIENTECH, Inc.
SCIENTECH's timely and newest InfoGrid, the Telecommunications
InfoGrid, will help you keep up with the latest moves of energy
companies into the fast growing telecom market. Energy company
telecom ventures are presented in easy-to-read matrix format for your
convenience. Bandwidth trading by energy companies? Electric utilities
with telecom subsidiaries? The city of 2,600 which built its own high
speed network? Get the facts in the new Telecommunications InfoGrid!
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New Services, Products, and Programs - January 2002
(downloadable)
Publisher: SCIENTECH, Inc.
This InfoGrid covers all types of services, products, and programs which
electric utilities and energy companies are offering to their residential,
small business, commercial, and industrial customers. These include
the more traditional types of services and products, as well as a broad
variety of innovative and unique examples. New or expanded programs
directed at customers or communities in utilities' territories are also
included.
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Mergers and Acquisitions InfoGrid - January 2002
(downloadable)
Publisher: SCIENTECH, Inc.
This InfoGrid covers major mergers, acquisitions, and convergence in the
electric utility industry. It includes the status of regulatory approvals,
financial information, and management and structural changes.
Information is provided from 1986 to the current date in 2001.
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E-Commerce InfoGrid - January 2002
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Publisher: SCIENTECH, Inc.
The E-Commerce InfoGrid provides information on e-commerce
activities of electric, natural gas, and water utilities, energy companies,
and others, such as major billing companies, serving a large portion of
the utility and energy industries. Included are brief summaries of
important announcements and news about companies' plans related to
e-commerce.
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Announced and Completed Utility Generation Plant Divestitures InfoGrid- January 2002
(downloadable)
Publisher: SCIENTECH, Inc.
This InfoGrid charts recent sales of generation assets owned by investor-
owned utilities, municipals, and cooperatives, as well as the changeover
of the plants to non-utility status. Data on sale completions, prices, and
purchasers will be inserted as such information becomes available.
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Texas Power Markets: Restructuring / Competition Report
(downloadable)
Publisher: Skipping Stone
Skipping Stone's Texas Power Markets: Restructuring / Competition
Report guides you through the newly emerging Texas energy
marketplace terrain with the most current information available today.
Insight on the latest orders issued as of December 14, 2001 by both the
PUCT and ERCOT, how they will affect the Texas energy market, and
market statistics and characteristics that will impact your business, are
included in the report. In addition, graphs, tables and pictures give a
snapshot for a quick grasp of the market.
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- Purchase Price: $995.00
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Industry Profile--UK Electricity
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Publisher: Datamonitor
Datamonitor's Electricity Industry Profile is an essential resource for top
level Electricity data and information. Covering the UK market, this
Energy industry profile presents the most important facts on the market
in a clear and concise format.
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Industry Profile--Spanish Electricity
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Publisher: Datamonitor
Datamonitor's Electricity Industry Profile is an essential resource for top
level Electricity data and information. Covering the Spanish market, this
Energy industry profile presents the most important facts on the market
in a clear and concise format.
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Industry Profile--Italian Electricity
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Publisher: Datamonitor
Datamonitor's Electricity Industry Profile is an essential resource for top
level Electricity data and information. Covering the Italian market, this
Energy industry profile presents the most important facts on the market
in a clear and concise format.
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Industry Profile--German Electricity
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Publisher: Datamonitor
Datamonitor's Electricity Industry Profile is an essential resource for top
level Electricity data and information. Covering the German market, this
Energy industry profile presents the most important facts on the market
in a clear and concise format.
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Component-based Applications Transform Legacy Systems to Deliver a Competitive Advantage
Publisher: LODESTAR Corporation
The times are changing for utility businesses. Deregulation has caused
major changes in the systems that support energy companies in this
new era. Information Technology (IT) systems, in particular, are being
challenged to achieve new heights in the area of flexibility and
integration. Before deregulation, utilities had traditional systems that
were vertically aligned and supported the generation, transmission,
distribution and retail aspects of their customer base. In the new energy
economy, these components are not clustered in a single company.
- Full Report
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Gaining Competitive Advantage through Trader-Centred Design
Publisher: Sapient
Energy traders live in a world of data in which complex financial
information systems support risky, time critical decisions. The easier
that information is to access and understand the better can be their
trading performance. Accuracy, speed of decision-making and the
maintenance of a broad and up to the minute view of trading conditions
are performance-critical factors that can be enhanced through trader-
centred redesign of the trading system interface.
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Creating Value Through Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Publisher: Sapient
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, customer relationship
management (CRM) is not a technology, a project, or even a program: it
is a way of doing business that focuses on the P&L of the individual
customer. By identifying customer needs and wants, often before they
are even expressed, energy companies can increase loyalty, generate
revenue, and decrease servicing costs. This paper explores why CRM
initiatives have such a mediocre track record, and more importantly what
energy companies can do to maximize their ROI.
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Intersection: Intranet and Enterprise -- Corporate Intranets as Corporate Information Infrastructures
Publisher: Sapient
Energy Companies are flooded with internal and external data. It's little
wonder that key information disappears into numerous, often
unconnected databases. If that information were instantly available to
every employee, energy companies could provide better service, faster.
Read on to find out how an intranet can control information overload
while adding significant business value.
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E.P.C.Contracting in a Sellar's Market - Should it Srill be the Project Delivery System of Choice?
Publisher: Lyon Kirwin Norris, P.A.
In the 1990s, owners, contractors, and vendors frequently utilized an
engineer/procure/construct (E.P.C.) approach to project delivery of new
power plants ("turnkey" contracting). Now that the market is changing,
with more balance sheet construction, an overheated but unpredictable
market with contractors and vendors less willing to assume risk that they
cannot control, and the need for rapid delivery, the question must be
asked when and even whether E.P.C. construction still makes sense.
This report dicusses: 1) types of projects most and least appropriate for
E.P.C. contracting, 2) which owners are best served by the turnkey
approach, 3) how should the E.P.C. team be configured, and 4) what are
the most significant risk allocation clauses, including liquidated
damages and performance guarantees.
Author is an energy construction lawyer with over 25 years in the industry
representing owners, utilities, contractors, and engineers.
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Industrial Strength Sag Correction: Case Studies, Applications, & Lessons from the Real World
Publisher: SoftSwitching Technologies
Voltage sags and momentary loss of power are the predominant power
quality problem facing industry. Even with a premium utility service, such
as dual independent power feeds or a direct connection to high voltage
transmission lines, voltage sags caused by lightning strikes or system
faults will occur. The use of battery back-up solutions, such as UPS?s,
has cost, maintenance, and reliability issues on the factory floor.
SoftSwitching Technologies offers a cost effective, power electronic
based solution without any batteries or flywheels which can be used in
any manufacturing process.
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The Psychology Affecting Loyalty of Electricity & Gas Customers
Publisher: University of Vaasa
Obtaining new customers and achieving customer loyalty and value is
essentially not about being the best or achieving excellent customer
satisfaction or even about having the best prices, it is a about
understanding how the customer thinks and behaves and thereby
controlling their thoughts, intentions and behaviour cost effectively.
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Time-Based Pricing Empowers Consumers
Publisher: American Energy Institute
Advanced Metering is the key to Electric Deregulation. Meaningful choice
requires the availability of low-cost advanced metering; it?s needed to
make the deregulated market work.
- Full Report
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The Economics of Real-Time and Time-of-Use Pricing
Publisher: American Energy Institute
Results of time-based pricing continue to demonstrate the beneficial
impact that innovative rate structures have on reducing residential peak
load.
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Compendium of Real Time Pricing and Time of Use Studies and Reports
Publisher: American Energy Institute
An up-to-date bibliography of Real-Time and Time-of-Use rate studies
and reports, with abstracts.
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Time Slicing The Outage
Publisher: M3i Systems Inc.
Maximizing the expertise of control rooms and field crews to shorten
outage duration and improve customer service
- Full Report
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Quality of Information
Publisher: Spescom Software Inc.
This paper describes the rationale for exploiting the principles and
functionality of an Asset Information Management system to provide an
enterprise information system that uses the asset as a common
denominator to integrate and improve all business processes and
functional areas. Its relevance to the business environment and its
challenges, concurrent engineering and total quality management is
also addressed.
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Protect and Enhance Utility IT Investments with Enterprise Collaboration Management Systems
Publisher: Consulting for Energy
Electric and gas utilities have invested billions in Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) systems to meet the needs of deregulation, new
business opportunities, and mergers. While these systems perform
particular applications very well, they have complex user interfaces, were
built prior to the Internet revolution, and are not easy to integrate with
other systems. Enterprise Collaboration Management systems protect
and enhance this investment, allow a standard browser-based user
interface, and allow simplified system integration. This paper discusses
advantages of this technology and its benefits, as well as examples.
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Efficient Reliability: The Critical Role of Demand-Side Resources in Power Systems and Markets
Publisher: The Regulatory Assistance Project
How increased investments in energy efficiency, load management, and
price-responsive load can lower power costs and improve power system
reliability.
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Selecting an On-Site Power System
Publisher: NextWave Energy, Inc.
Selecting an on-site power system for a facility is not a simple or
straightforward task. Decision-makers should have a good plan for
conducting a robust assessment of the alternatives, and should be
aware of the issues they are likely to confront during the process, as a
first step to undertaking an evaluation of on-site power.
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Long-Term Prospects for Widespread Residential Power Generation
Publisher: NextWave Energy, Inc.
Although underappreciated by many energy industry observers, there is
already a nascent niche market for residential power generation, and a
great deal of interest by major companies to develop winning
technologies for this marketplace because of its huge potential size.
While it will take some time to overcome the economic and institutional
obstacles now inhibiting this market's emergence, eventual leadership
in the someday-enormous residential power arena will only be earned
by those companies that begin taking steps in the near-term to position
for long-term success.If you have not had a white paper or report listed
with us before, you need to provide the following company information
also.
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Learning from Enron?s Demise
Publisher: NextWave Energy, Inc.
The rapid and complete fall of Enron is one of the most stunning events
in the history of the energy industry. While Enron's situation was in
certain ways unique, there are many generalizable insights that
managers should learn from the saga.
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The Role of Web-based Dynamic Trading in Restructured Electric and Gas Markets
Publisher: @TheMoment
The Role of Web-based Dynamic Trading in Restructured Electric and
Gas Markets
A White Paper by David C. Moshal, Co-founder and CTO of @TheMoment
(as published by Montgomery Research in The Impact of Competition)
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Full Interconnection of Customer Owned Standby Generators: Cost/Benefit Analysis
Publisher: Encorp, Inc.
Synchronous interconnection of small generators with utility power
distribution systems offers energy managers the potential to increase
electric power reliability and to reduce overall energy costs.
interconnected with a single utility provider.
- Interconnection
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