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Take it public The failure of energy deregulation should make us reconsider blind faith in the market -- and take a second look at public power systems like the one that lights up Hollywood...   |
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Michael Schrage |
The Voodoo Economics Behind Utility Computing Before you sign up for pay-as-you-go, you need to understand how utilities can manipulate and hide the true costs of plugging in. |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2005
Matt Thurmond |
Utilities That Pay YOU Electric utilities are some of the highest dividend payers in the market. |
Entrepreneur
February 2004
Dian Vujovich |
Power Play Utility stocks have gone back to basics. |
BusinessWeek
June 4, 2007
Aaron Pressman |
New Spark In Utility Stocks Why the once-staid utility sector is generating breathtaking returns. |
Reason
June 2001
Michael W. Lynch & Adrian Moore |
Power Tripped Faulty re-regulation turns out the lights in the Golden State... |
Salon.com
February 14, 2001
Anthony York |
Energy vultures California's electricity crisis could have been avoided if profiteering power-generating companies hadn't blocked further deregulation.... |
Financial Advisor
February 2005
Marla Brill |
Power Up Utility funds shined in 2004, but rising interest rates could slow them down. |
Salon.com
January 18, 2001
Damien Cave |
Green power in the red Electricity deregulation is bankrupting California's fledgling eco-friendly energy industry... |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Robert Glynn During the energy deregulation boom of the late 1990s, PG&E Corp. Chairman and CEO Robert D. Glynn Jr. made several strategic bets that didn't pan out. |
Fast Company
July 2009
Anya Kamenetz |
Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got. |
Reason
June 2001
Michael W. Lynch |
Keystone Success Why Pennsylvania's electricity deregulation plan has worked -- so far... |
Inc.
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Emily Barker |
Upstarts: Energy Deregulation Where do you buy your electricity? If you don't have a choice now, you will soon... |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2010
Eric Dutram |
Thursday's ETF to Watch: XLUS XLUS tracks the S&P SmallCap 600 Utilities Index which consists of common stocks of U.S. utility companies. |
Reason
June 2009
Lynne Kiesling |
Electric Intelligence Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies. |
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2008
Zoe Van Schyndel |
Will Utilities Keep Shining? These utility ETFs have decent yields and low volatility, and they offer safe havens when markets are roiled. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Power: Keep The Candles Handy -- And Light A Few For the power sector, 2003 will be remembered as the year the lights went out. To avoid another blackout like the one that darkened big chunks of Canada and the U.S. in August, the industry will work harder this year. |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2009
Elliott J. Orsillo |
Utilities: Diamonds in the Rough? Today's utilities could be tomorrow's clean-energy diamonds. |
CRM
January 27, 2012
Leonard Klie |
Customer Interaction with Utilities via Social Media Is on the Rise New research also finds a growing number of utilities share information about service issues with customers via social media. |
Investment Advisor
November 2005
Kathleen M. McBride |
Bright Idea Judith Saryan's Eaton Vance Utilities Fund generates returns, dividends, and value. Advisors need to look at where this fund would fit in an investor's portfolio. |
Salon.com
January 27, 2001
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Gov. Davis and the failure of power California's energy crisis is another lesson in the need for campaign finance reform... |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2011
Robert Eberhard |
Don't Fear the Megalopolis An examination of utilities that serve the urban region along the east coast. |
Reason
June 2001
Carolyn Lochhead |
Electrifying Performances California's senators' responses to the energy crisis... |
CIO
May 15, 2001
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What a Switch! Before deregulation, utilities didn't have to worry about customer service. Now they do. But buying CRM software won't do the trick... |
The Motley Fool
July 31, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Southern Talk for Income Investors Investors, despite Southern Company's solid results, it's too early to get a definitive grip on general public utility trends for the quarter. |
AFP eWire
May 23, 2005 |
Nonprofit Seeks to Encourage Utility Philanthropy The Utility Customers Charitable Trust is urging utility companies to begin Round Up programs that could ultimately lead to $1 billion a year in charitable giving. |
InternetNews
December 9, 2005
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Analysts: Utility Computing a "Developing Concept" Customers and vendors like IBM, Hewlett Packard and Sun Microsystems are only taking baby steps toward utility computing, according to new research. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2011
Charles Paikert |
Wealth Management Market Report: Hunting for Big Game in Tinsel Town Like the glamorous actors and actresses Los Angeles is famous for, the city's wealth management market stands out on the national scene. |
Salon.com
July 31, 2001
William Bradley |
Gray Davis' Edison problem The governor struggles to orchestrate a multimillion-dollar bailout of the utility that has spent big bucks on his campaign... |
CRM
December 16, 2010 |
Utilities Need to Improve Customer Experiences to Create Loyalty, Survey Finds A Twitter poll conducted by Nuance signals new opportunities for utilities to use mobile self-service and proactive notifications to improve the customer service experience. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2004
Jim Mueller |
PG&E's Dividend At first glance, Pacific Gas & Electric seems to be using debt to finance its recently announced dividend. Say it isn't so! But don't jump to conclusions. Consumers and shareholders win on this deal. |
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PG&E: A Utility Struggles to Adapt to the Information Age Pacific Gas and Electric Company may be an ancient dinosaur, but one of its problems is too much technology. That is, too many scattered information technology systems that don't talk to one another. |
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How to Begin a Customer Care Overhaul A shift is already under way in how utilities companies interact with their customers, but it will need to pick up considerable steam in coming years. |
CIO
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Kim S. Nash |
How TXU Energy Uses ERP to Give Power to Customers The utility opened up its ERP data so customers can have more control over their electricity use. |
Home Toys
December 2005
Brian Golden |
The Energy Crisis Gets Personal Just as the Internet empowered millions with easy access to information and brand new ways to communicate, emerging technologies will also bring sweeping changes in energy production and consumption. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2009
Rich Duprey |
Utility to Drive Smart Grid Advances Drive a car with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake, and you'll get some idea of how we're driving our energy sector today. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2006
William Sweet |
Get-Rich-Quick Scheme ConsumerPowerline, a four-year-old New York company, is showing its clients how to make money, and quite a lot of it, by not using electricity. |
The Motley Fool
September 5, 2011
Tierney Plumb |
In the News: Duke Merger With Progress Pushes On A key consumer group signs off on a $13.7 billion deal between the utility giants. |
CRM
December 1, 2007
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Market Focus: Energy/Utilities -- Speaking Truth to Power (Companies) Analytics are increasingly leveraged for insight into customer behavior. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. |
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February 4, 2005
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Shared Data Services Several consulting firms and one vendor are looking to build separate utilities that would allow broker-dealers and investment managers to outsource their data services to achieve cost savings. A second model being considered is a utility owned and operated by the industry firms themselves. |
The Motley Fool
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Jeremy Bowman |
It's Lights Out For Utilities Investors Utilities were the best performing sector last year. That momentum won't continue in 2012. |
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November 2011
Marla Brill |
Powering Up Utility stocks are a lower-risk way to achieve incremental returns, says manager Mario Gabelli of the Gabelli Utilities Fund. |
The Motley Fool
May 4, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
PG&E: A Safe Cleantech Play? The West Coast utility company is involved in a variety of renewable energy projects that could make it a legitimate cleantech investment. |
The Motley Fool
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Ivan Martchev |
Buy What Hasn't Rallied: Utilities At the end of August, utilities were one of only two sectors in the red for the year. What gives? |
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September 1, 2001
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Lessons from California's Power Crisis Clearly, what happened in California was not what was planned. It is not surprising that policymakers around the world are now asking questions... |
CFO
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Anne Stuart |
Utility Computing It's a little bit outsourcing. It's a little bit re-architecting. It's hard to describe. As with any potential technology revolution, the concept of utility computing faces plenty of potential barriers. |
InternetNews
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Michael Hickins |
Oracle Stacks Utilities Suite Oracle buys Lodestar to offer the utilities industry a wider range of management software tools. |
