Electric Light & Power Articles, March 2009

Table of Contents

Sections

Energy Management

Strategies for Managing the Demand-Supply Equation

Buzzwords or industry trends? Energy efficiency (EE). Decoupling.

Energy Efficiency All Grown Up

It might be that after 30 years, energy efficiency (EE) has hit its prime with a galactic alignment of the planets of capacity needs ...

Generation

Clean-Coal Power Generation: The Uncertainties Beyond Carbon Policy

Although advocates claim clean-coal power generation must be an underpinning of future U.S. energy policy, such power plants are not yet a reality.

Renewables

Is Renewable Energy the Impossible Dream? Science Offers Insight on Wind Feasibility

“Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain.

T&D

Inciting Awareness: How DOE Supports the Smart Grid

However you choose to define it, there is no ignoring it, pooh-poohing it or pretending it doesn't exist.

T&D Market Index Provides Snapshot of Critical-Spend Categories

Denali Intelligence, a market research firm for sourcing professionals, released its latest (Q4) T&D Market Index.

IT/CIS & CRM

Mutual Assistance in Customer Service: The Latest Trend

Mutual assistance is the cornerstone of an industry that values safety and service.

Let CS Week Be Your Meter-to-Cash Stimulus Package

President Barack Obama's energy plan provides money and a public spotlight to the multiple facets of energy use, generation ... exploration and conservation that his administration will address.

CS Week Conference Workshops

Concentrates on the various aspects of metering and the collection of metering data for various purposes including...

Finance

Embracing the Changing Workforce: 7 Tips to Sustain a Successful Strategy

The electric utility industry expects major workforce challenges during the next decade.

Protecting the Coal Supply Chain: Planning for the Next Flu Pandemic

I was a resident advisor, or RA, when I was in college. I went to a little school in New England with only a few thousand students ,,,

CMS Energy Tops January

A positive natural gas rate case and an increase in its dividend helped CMS Energy, parent of Consumers Energy, to the top for the month.

Commentary

Commentary

These days it's hard to look beyond the U.S. economic environment and focus on other pertinent issues.

Columns

The Uncomfort Zone

Keeping the Ball Rolling

I know an advertising agency owner who never fully takes a vacation. He takes his family to fairly exotic locations ...

EE: Principles and Practices

Reinventing EE Delivery

Dr. Chip Bell is not only a friend, but a renowned customer service expert.

Taking it Into Account

Smarts Deliver More Than Backbone

Those channeling cash to the energy industry under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 must evaluate critically proposals to invest or guarantee ...

Benefit of Counsel

A New PURPA for Green Schools?

A potentially powerful and highly motivated coalition is pressing for changes in state and federal utility regulation ...

Economic Inquiry

Understanding Obama's Energy Policy: Definitions for the Armchair Economist

The new administration is pursuing transformation of America's century-old electricity industry.

Features

Industry Report

Yes We Did ... Now What?

As the new U.S. president promises the most costly changes to fight recession since World War II...

Economic Stimulus and the Power Industry

The electricity-related provisions in the economic stimulus package sharply brought into focus the essential nature of electricity to our nation's economic recovery.

This Issue

Volume 87
Issue 2
March 2009