Japan: Tohuku Electric's Internal Venture Program Creates New Company 

Feb 1, 2002

In May 2000, as part of its 50th anniversary observance, Tohuku Electric established its Venture Support Program, an internal venture business incubator...

Kirchhoff's Laws Cannot Be Repealed, Legislated or Ignored 

Feb 1, 2002, By Robert J. Thomas, Cornell University

The events in California that led to what is now referred to as the have surfaced several new problems for the electric-power industry. The case study...

Organizational Change Management: Theory and Practice 

Feb 1, 2002, By Eric Kimberling, SchlumbergerSema Utilities Practice

As regulatory pressures, increasing customer demands and competitive forces impact utilities worldwide, change is becoming the norm rather than the exception....

United States: California Attorney General Sues PG&E Corp. for Unfair Business Practices 

Feb 1, 2002

The attorney general of California, Bill Lockyer, charged Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. (PG&E Corp.) with illegal, unfair and fraudulent business practices...

United States: Deregulation in Texas Experiencing Snags 

Feb 1, 2002

Deregulation in Texas, which officially began Jan. 1, 2002, is off to a rocky start. Although the state began its pilot program in July to test-run deregulation,...

United States: MISO, PJM Form Single Energy Market 

Feb 1, 2002

On Jan. 21, 2002, the PJM Interconnection and the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator Inc. (MISO) executed a letter of intent to develop...

Electrifying Rural Morocco 

Jan 1, 2002, By Gerry George, International Editor

The Moroccan government launched the Global Rural Electrification Program (PERG) in January 1996. This program is the most popular and federative project...

After the Gold Rush 

Jan 1, 2002, By James R. Dukart, Contributing Writer

Throughout its history, California has had its fair share of economic booms and busts. In the mid-1800s, prospectors streamed across the Rockies to pan...

It's a New Day 

Jan 1, 2002, By Earl Hazan, Contributing Editor

In an unexciting business that intrudes on the public's consciousness only rarely, people take the nation's electric utilities for granted as part of...

Powering The Globe 

Jan 1, 2002, By Gerry George, International Editor

In developing countries, the demand for electrical energy continues to rise, while in developed countries, consumers seek higher standards of system reliability...

Data for Dollars 

Oct 1, 2001, By Roberta Laccetti and Elizabeth Hicks, National Grid USA

If you were to write a play about the restructured electric-power industry, something along the lines of Shakespeare's with each segment of the business...

Emerging Super Contractors Flex Their Muscles 

Sep 1, 2001, By Rick Bush, Editor-in-Chief

Dan Jentz knows more than a little about contracting. As director of contracting at ComEd (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), Jentz contracted out underground...

PSE&G Insulates Itself From Failure 

Sep 1, 2001, By George Binas, PSE&G

Deregulation has forced many utilities to operate as for profit enterprises, with emphasis on cost reduction. To meet reduction requirements, utilities...

A Scientific Approach 

Sep 1, 2001, By Steve Burns, Gulf Power Co.

Electric utilities are particularly sensitive to public opinion not only about what the electric services cost, but also about routine company operations...

Global ViewpointAn Engineer in the Commodity Trading Pit 

Feb 1, 1997, By Earl Hazan, Consulting Editor

I was invited by the management of the New York Commodity Exchange to view its operations and to learn how electricity would be traded among investors...

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