Building a Better Utility
Many of the obstacles and strategic issues that utilities face today are all too familiar. This time they must be solved with a different business model.
Many of the obstacles and strategic issues that utilities face today are all too familiar. This time they must be solved with a different business model.
Judith Warrick
Power System Planning: Who gets paid (and how much) for backing up the system?
Bruce W. Radford
Financial buyers are snapping up power plants faster than at any time in history. The asset shift represents an interim step in a wholesale-market transformation.
Michael T. Burr
And why North American power plants should take note.
V. Gurevich, Ph.D
How to price new load-servicing contracts while incorporating market-risk analysis into such deals.
Andy Dunn
The CEO Power Forum: Not all utility CEOs are created equal...
We talk with Cinergy’s James E. Rogers, DTE Energy’s Anthony F. Earley Jr., Constellation Energy’s Mayo A. Shattuck III, Xcel Energy’s Wayne H. Brunetti, FPL Group Inc.’s Lewis Hay III, and TXU’s C. John Wilder.
Interviews by Richard Stavros
The CEO Power Forum: TXU's Wilder nets $55 million package.
Companies continue to embrace the back-to-basics strategy, and investors seem to think that it is paying off.
Edward Metz
How to use the board of directors to build a more resilient enterprise.
Utility boards face great uncertainty, heightening the importance of communication between directors and management.
Tim Gardner and Eric Spiegel
Presenting a program to stimulate robust coal-gasification technology deployment at low federal cost.
Federal loan guarantees and other incentives can clear the hurdles to near-term deployment of gasification technologies.
William G. Rosenberg, Michael R. Walker, & Dwight C. Alpern
No single type of financial incentive closes the cost gap between clean coal and modern conventional coal technologies.
How can the cost gap between IGCC plants and pulverized coal plants be closed?
Thomas Wilson and Charles Clark