Strategy Gurus: Managing Under Chaos
Post-Enron management philosophies for surviving uncertain times.
Dynegy’s Chuck Watson, and other market strategists, talk management philosophy.
CEO Power Forum: Leadership and Credibility in Uncertain Times
The leaders of the electric power industry greatly want to put a positive spin on the current state of affairs in their business.
Enron’s bankruptcy and California’s failed restructuring experience, as well as credit and shareholder concerns, are preventing senior executives from spending adequate time on developing new growth opportunities for their companies and lobbying for electric industry competition.
Standby Generation: A New Proposition
A cost/benefit analysis of full interconnection of customer-owned standby generators.
Investigating the economic impact of interconnecting a backup generator with a utility-owned power system.
Distributed Generation: Hype vs. Hope
Separating myth from reality in identifying DG applications.
Technological breakthroughs in distributed generation have not materialized as quickly as expected. Furthermore, manufacturers have continued to improve traditional generation technologies. So what role can DG play?
Backtracking in Georgia
The customer is always right.
Given all the flack it’s caught of late, it may not be too far off before Georgia’s esteemed deregulation program is saddled with the label of “fiasco” and “debacle.” The timing is strikingly similar to California, where that state’s electric restructuring experiment crumbled in the summer of 2000, two years and change after the flawed plan switched on.
Energy Customers Focused on Bottom-Line
Public Utilities Fortnightly and POWERdat®
To control their energy budgets in this environment, corporate energy managers must quickly become familiar with markets in which they are inexperienced participants.
Letter to the Editor (May 15, 2002)
EPSA exec rebukes McCullough's claims.
A response to the article "Revisiting California," April 1, 2002: If the issues confronting California’s ratepayers weren’t so important, it would be easy to say that Robert McCullough’s efforts are best published on April Fools Day.
People (May 15, 2002)
Dr. Janice A. Beecher has been named director of the Institute of Pubic Utilities at Michigan State University. Calpine announced several promotions to its senior management team. Alliant Energy also announced several new appointments. And others ...
Biting Pat Wood's Hand
FERC finds the states have teeth, too.
FERC Chairman Pat Wood ought to be commended for trying to extend a hand of cooperation to state PUCs. But certainly he must by now understand that the nature of the state regulator, as the nature of the wolf, is unchangeable.
Potential Exposure: The Long View on Credit Risk
Tools for measuring credit risk.
Taking a fresh look at issues surrounding industry credit risk.