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EnergyBiz Magazine — January / February 2005 |
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OUR TAKE
Energy Policy Now! [PDF]
A few years ago, I visited Jeff Skilling atop Enron’s Houston skyscraper. He had just
returned from a foray to Philadelphia, where he had triggered a debate over the
need for competition in the energy business.
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FEATURED
Players To Watch [PDF]
Four attributes of successful energy companies
have emerged at the dawn of 2005. Five companies
exemplify them.
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Breaking the Energy Deadlock [PDF]
A broad alliance of energy companies, environmentalists
and others interested in a new energy direction
have banded together in the interest of promoting the
adoption of a meaningful, long-term national policy.
[ Comment On This Article ][ Blog About This! ]Articles Within This Feature
The Business Case for Power Line Communications [PDF]
Some utilities want to use their
power lines to bring broadband
communications to consumers.
Others see broadband over their power lines as a unique
tool to facilitate robust interaction with energy customers
who will be able to utilize a new era of energy services.
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LEGAL EAGLE
Regulatory Upheaval [PDF]Each state is grappling with the same basic issues. We are all concerned about energy supply, price volatility, fuel diversity, system reliability, the emergence of retail competition, and consumer protection.[ Comment On This Article ][ Blog About This! ]
Regulators Must Be Agents of Change [PDF]The electric utility industry is at a crossroads. There is an urgent need for regulators to chart comprehensive policies that encourage investment and new technology to improve and advance performance of this critical infrastructure.[ Comment On This Article ][ Blog About This! ]
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TECHNOLOGY FRONTIER
Savvy Utility Web Sites [PDF]
More energy company executives have come to view their corporate Web sites as important elements of an increasingly interactive customer service strategy, a step up from the original notion developed a decade ago to use the Web primarily to deliver information to customers.[ Comment On This Article ]
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Fast Forward the Electric Business [PDF]
The electric utility industry, already an economic colossus, is poised to double in size in the next two decades. Technological change will get the credit.[ Comment On This Article ]
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METRICS
It's Show Time [PDF]
Attendance levels at important energy industry gatherings, in most cases below marks set just a few years ago, are showing signs of rebound. With a floundering economy and terrorist fears, attendance levels dropped in 2002 and 2003.[ Comment On This Article ]
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Power Engineers Await Rebound [PDF]
Engineering companies serving electric utilities are getting their assignments, but until recently there has been little cause for celebration.[ Comment On This Article ]
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Automatic Meter Reading Regaining Momentum [PDF]
Automated meter reading — AMR — is where technology interfaces with the energy consumer. Deployments have made steady gains, to the point that one in five electric customers and one in four natural gas users has energy use monitored in automated fashion, according to Howard Scott, author of the “Scott Report.”[ Comment On This Article ]
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INTRODUCING
Soul Man -- Catell of KeySpan Looks Inward [PDF]
Robert B. Catell is up from the streets of Brooklyn. You can picture him with a stickball bat on his shoulder. He is, however, among the savviest of utility executives, having orchestrated the 1998 merger of Brooklyn Union Gas and Long Island Lighting Co. to form KeySpan Corp.[ Comment On This Article ]
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FINAL TAKE
Switching to a New Light [PDF]
Developed by European scientists, the compact fluorescent light bulb “has 10 times the life of an incandescent bulb, is three or four times more energy efficient, and a 30-watt CFL lasts longer than a 100-watt bulb,” said Terry McGowan,[ Comment On This Article ]
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