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Visions for a sustainable energy future
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London : CRC Pr., 2008
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xiv, 252 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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9780849398179

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This book offers a unique insight into the corporate health of energy companies in an evolving landscape of deregulation. Cutting across both historical and present-day situations, it demonstrates important elements vital to the success of energy companies coming out of a safe regulated structure and dealing with a new competitive environment.

Targeted at corporate executives, energy professionals, the financial and investment communities, strategic planners and regulators, readers will find this resource helpful to understand how energy companies can meet the challenges of a competitive environment, what it will take to evolve into healthy energy companies, the impacts of deregulation and assessment of successful and unsuccessful strategies for energy companies, the role of technology in business/product reinvention and a successful business model, and the differences and similarities of electricity to other commodities-the challenges to generation, power delivery, environmental science and end-use sectors of the business.


Author Notes

Mark A. Gabriel is an executive management consultant and principal with R.W. Beck, a national engineering-based consulting firm


Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introductionp. xi
Chapter 1 Megatrends and the Energy Horizonp. 1
Market trends vs. Megatrendsp. 1
Current Crossroads: The Electric Sector Todayp. 4
Energy Business Capital Expenditures As a Percent of Revenuep. 6
Inherent Conflicts in the Electricity Sectorp. 11
Relieving the Conflictp. 14
Chapter 2 Incenting Innovation: A Competitive Regulatory Frameworkp. 19
The Regulatory Dilemmap. 20
Electricity Company Responses to Deregulation: Invest in the Newp. 24
Finding the Right (and Profitable) Customer Compactp. 33
Turning a Megatrend into Business Opportunityp. 35
Competitive Regulation: The Infrastructure Investment Modelp. 38
Chapter 3 The Destiny of Energy Business Evolutionp. 41
Developing a Stable Business Modelp. 44
The Art of Business Reinvention: A Classic and Stable Business Modelp. 56
The Unique Attributes of the Electricity Industryp. 62
Succeeding with the Destiny of Business Evolutionp. 66
Chapter 4 The Destiny of Demographicsp. 71
The Aging Workforce-A Gap of Knowledgep. 74
Growing Population Shifts-A Booming Retirement Issuep. 91
Increased Consumer Demand-A Boomer Phenomenonp. 95
Succeeding with the Destiny of Demographicsp. 103
Chapter 5 The Destiny of Carbon Constraints and Capacity Demandsp. 109
Supply-side Issues and the Carbon Conflictp. 113
Fueling the Future: Facing the Conflictp. 120
Incentives to Help Replace Conflict and Costly Compliancep. 161
Succeeding with the Megatrend of Conflict
Chapter 6 The Destiny of Intelligent Infrastructurep. 169
Our National Power Grid... Nowp. 172
The Vision-Enhanced Power Flow with Digital Controlp. 180
Succeeding with the Megatrend of Connectivityp. 195
Chapter 7 The Destiny of Customer Engagementp. 201
It's Your Father's Energy Interfacep. 203
The Intelligent Energy Portalp. 206
The Art of Energy Efficiency and Smart Controlp. 215
Succeeding with the Megatrend of Choicep. 218
Chapter 8 The Destination: A Transformed Electricity Sectorp. 223
A Vision for the Industry's Futurep. 228
Transformative Paths in Telecommunicationsp. 233
Getting There from Herep. 236
A Healthy Balancep. 236
Repair, Replace, Rebuild vs. Investing in Innovationp. 237
Building a Model for the Futurep. 240
Conclusionp. 245
Ten Ideas for the Futurep. 245
Indexp. 249