Electric Light & Power Articles, March 2008

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Sections

CS Week Promises the Best in Education and Networking

At CS Week Conference 32, executives, vice presidents, managers, directors and all levels of customer service personnel will have the opportunity to benefit ...

CS Week Up to the Challenge

CS Week is raising the bar in meter-to-cash educational offerings. Holding the bar steady only works when dancing the Limbo.

Risk Management

Risk Management the Smart Way

Use automation to manage regulatory and financial risk.

Generation

The LNG Business in the U.S.: Importers can set the stage for long-term success.

The worldwide demand for liquid natural gas has been increasing steadily due to economic growth ...

Renewables

Thermal Energy Storage

Shifting the air conditioning load can reduce peak power demand.

Energy Efficiency: The Challenge of Making it Work

Making it work is one of the industry?s toughest challenges.

IT/CIS & CRM

Benchmarking Inbound Call Center Operations: How do you compare?

As every call center manager knows, assembling the right mix of resources to ensure high-quality, cost-effective customer care is a constantly evolving challenge.

Establish a Brand ?Voice?

By automating communications, Aquila and Alliant improved customer service.

CS Week Conference Workshops

Concentrates on the various aspects of metering through to the accumulation of metering data for various purposes ...

T&D

Using CAIDI as a Leading Indicator

CL&P discovered the critical elements of effective outage response.

Management Methods

Seven criteria of the strategic business leader in energy

Is your company ready to move beyond the strategy of merely farming for organic growth? If so, you may be ready to build a hunting strategy ...

Finance

Federal Loan Guarantees ?Part Two?

Will they give the U.S. climate response a needed boost in 2008?

Exclusive C Three Equity Index: 2007 Gains Gone

February?s losses pile on top of January?s

Commentary

Commentary

It?s tough to describe the smart grid in words. It?s made up of lots of components, and many of them are quite technical.

Columns

Customer Servic, Utility Style

The Three C?s of Call Monitoring

Successful call center managers know that in addition to answering calls in a timely fashion, true success comes in providing quality information to customers during the call.

Benefit of Counsel

As Policymakers Fight Over Paradigms, a Crisis Looms

In "The Adventure of the Final Problem," Arthur Conan Doyle both introduced and did away with Sherlock Holmes? arch nemesis, the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty.

Taking it Into Account

Interconnection Overhaul Overdue

First-come, first-served rules governing interconnection to the high-voltage transmission grid are keeping generation off-line that is needed to serve load...

Managing Uncertainty

A New Environmental Era: Managing Renewable Energy Risk

Environmental impact and climate change related to fossil fuels have put renewable electricity sources?namely wind, solar, biomass and geothermal?at the top of the global energy agenda.

Features

Industry Report

C02: Climate Change Legislation

Federal climate change legislation is inevitable — that’s the consensus on U.S. global warming polkicy.

Climate Change Initiatives and The Bottom Line

What SEC reports reveal about the impact of legislation on power producers

This Issue

Issue 2
March 2008