The Case for Utilities to Bundle Their Energy Businesses—Before They’re Cannibalized The utility industry has already been undergoing significant change over the past 25 years, with the rise of independent grid operators, competitive energy markets and the split of vertically-integrated business models. But the rise of distributed energy is creating more turmoil for the utility … Continue reading The Case for Utilities to Bundle Their Energy Businesses—Before They’re Cannibalized→
The Energy and Utilities Sector Remains Vulnerable to Hackers For years, energy and utility organizations have been high-profile targets for hackers, cyberterrorists and foreign governments. Infrastructure organizations are seen as vulnerable targets that can be used to cause mass disruption with a relatively few keystrokes pressed from a home located a few blocks away or … Continue reading The Energy and Utilities Sector Remains Vulnerable to Hackers→
Augmented reality already a reality for utilities In February 2017 the Economist magazine ran an article entitled The promise of augmented reality, saying: “If companies ranging from giants like Microsoft and Google to newcomers like Magic Leap and Meta have their way, the next thing to leap from fiction to fact will be augmented reality … Continue reading #Augmented_reality already a reality for utilities→
Is The U.S. Utility Industry Breaking Free From Its Death Spiral? The U.S. investor owned electric utility industry raked in the money in 2016. According numbers just re-leased by industry trade group the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), pretax operating income (operating mar-gin) rose a solid 3 percent and net income for common stock (excluding extraordinary … Continue reading Is The U.S. Utility Industry Breaking Free From Its #Death_Spiral?→
The Beginning Of The End For U.S. Utilities? Capital expenditure projections for the electricity industry in the U.S. were just released by the Edison Electric Institute (EEI). The data show a utility industry with plans for continued healthy levels of spending. Interestingly, planned capex is even above projections made last year despite long term kilowatt … Continue reading The Beginning Of The End For U.S. Utilities?→
Why electric utilities must update their business models Due to a variety of factors, the traditional business model for the nation’s investor-owned electric utilities, such as TXU or Reliant Energy, is in trouble. In fact, these factors – led by a rapid movement away from the decades-old system of generating electricity from large, centralized power … Continue reading Why electric utilities must update their business models→
Drones-as-a-service: These days, utilities are outsourcing everything AES spent years developing its own program, but as is often the case with new technologies, found a partnership was the fastest way to scale up value. With apologies to Clint Eastwood, a utility’s got to know its limitations. The use of drones — small, unmanned aerial vehicles … Continue reading #Drone s-as-a-service: These days, utilities are #outsourcing everything→
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