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Best Practices: Chevron's IT Transformation to Align Business and IT Strategies
Table of Contents Published: 2009/11
This IDC Energy Insights report presents key business, IT, and upstream highlights for Chevron. ...

Best Practices: ExxonMobil's Upstream Strategy Is Driving IT Practices
Table of Contents Published: 2009/11
This IDC Energy Insights report presents key business, IT, and upstream highlights for ExxonMobil. ...

Best Practices: Bringing Stakeholders Together: The Amsterdam Smart City Project
Table of Contents Published: 2009/10
This document provides an in-depth look into the Amsterdam Smart City project, which seeks to demonstrate how energy can be saved today and tomorrow, through four focus areas, corresponding with the largest CO2 emitters in the city, they are: sustainable ...

Best Practices: Electric Vehicle Enabling in Denmark - The EDISON Consortium Project
Table of Contents Published: 2009/10
A massive diffusion of EVs (plug-in hybrid or pure plug-in electric) will impact customer energy use, load shapes, and utility system operations. ...

Market Analysis: Utility Attitudes Toward Energy Storage Technologies
Table of Contents Published: 2009/10
This IDC Energy Insights report focuses on utility attitudes and perceptions toward emerging energy storage technologies, including Lithium-ion batteries, NaS batteries, flow batteries, flywheels, and compressed air energy storage. ...

Best Practices: Pioneering Smarter Metering in Gas - The Gas Natural AMM Project Case Study
Table of Contents Published: 2009/09
This document provides an in-depth look at Gas Natural' s implementation of its Advanced Meter Management pilot project, which covered 10,000 meters installed across the Spanish territory. ...

Vendor Assessment: Buyer's Guide for Sustainability Services for Utilities -- It's All About Smart Metering and Carbon Emissions
Table of Contents Published: 2009/09
This IDC Energy Insights report provides technology services buyers with an analysis of the large professional service firms that provide strategy-level sustainability services, specifically related to the utility industry. ...

Technology Assessment: The Market for ETRM Applications
Table of Contents Published: 2009/08
This Energy Insights report provides a forecast for IT spending on energy trading and risk management (ETRM) software by oil and gas companies and utilities for 2007 through 2012. ...

Business Strategy: Beyond Web 2.0 -- Semantic Technology in the Oil and Gas Industry
Table of Contents Published: 2009/07
This Energy Insights report reviews the potential and use of Semantic Web technologies in the oil and gas industry. With the advent of the digital oilfield, information technology continues to be an important partner in meeting the business challenge of h ...

Business Strategy: Western Europe, Utilities Industry, IT Spending, 2009-2013 Forecast
Table of Contents Published: 2009/07
This IDC Energy Insights report presents the market sizing and forecast estimates for the utilities industry in Western Europe for 2008?2013. ...

Business Strategy: What's the Risk? Intelligent Grid Security Assessments
Table of Contents Published: 2009/07
This Energy Insights report on utilities and security services firms explains why and how cyber security risk is measured for intelligent grid infrastructure. ...

Technology Selection: New Generation of Power Generation and Implications for IT
Table of Contents Published: 2009/07
This Energy Insights report handicaps the outlook for different types of generation in the next 5?20 years and highlights the areas where information technology investment is expected. ...

Technology Selection: Utilities Industry IT Solutions and Technologies, 2009 Western European Survey
Table of Contents Published: 2009/07
This Energy Insights report provides an analysis of the results of the annual IDC-Energy Insights Survey covering France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. ...

Best Practices: OG&E Weather Normalization Case Study
Table of Contents Published: 2009/06
This Energy Insights report explores the hourly weather normalization model developed by OG&E and Itron to address a PUC mandate to use the system peak hour for cost allocation. Weather-normalized load data has many applications throughout the utility. ...

Best Practices: Utilities Industry IT Budget Distribution and Channel Selection, 2009 Western European Survey
Table of Contents Published: 2009/06
This IDC study provides an analysis of the results of the annual IDC-Energy Insights Survey covering France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. ...

Business Strategy: Impact of PHEVs on Utility Load Analysis
Table of Contents Published: 2009/06
This Energy Insights report explores some of the many ways that the increasing number of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) will affect the utility industry. ...

Putting the Control in Direct Load Control
Table of Contents Published: 2009/05
This Energy Insights report examines the results of five industry studies testing various curtailment strategies. ...

Vendor Assessment: Industry Short List for Scheduling, Nominations, and Settlement -- Closing the Loop on Energy Deals
Table of Contents Published: 2009/05
This report presents Vendor Assessment: Industry Short List for Scheduling, Nominations, and Settlement -- Closing the Loop on Energy Deals. ...

Central European Utility Industry Overview and IT Spending 2008-2012 Forecast
Table of Contents Published: 2009/04
This IDC study provides an overview of the many developments taking place in the utility industry in Central Europe and their consequences on IT spending. The study quantifies anticipated utility-sector IT spending in Central Europe through 2012. ...

Australia Utilities Information and Communication Technology Market 2008-2012 Forecast and Analysis
Table of Contents Published: 2009/03
This IDC study focuses on the utilities sector in Australia, providing a map of where short- and longer-term opportunities can be found, highlighting purchasing patterns for products and services by market. This IDC study is part of a series of reports fo ...

Best Practices: Case Studies of Advanced Electrical Energy Storage System Deployment
Table of Contents Published: 2009/03
This Energy Insights report evaluates advanced stationary energy storage technologies and a number of the real-world projects in which they are either being tested or commercially operated in the United States. Utility-scale advanced energy storage system ...

Carbon Capture and Storage: A Case for Action
Table of Contents Published: 2009/03
This Energy Insights report looks at the current situation of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, and their potential for the future. With energy demand expected to grow by 45% between now and 2030, and with that an increase in CO2 and other GH ...

Peak Time Rebate's Dirty Little Secret
Table of Contents Published: 2009/03
This Energy Insights report reveals Peak Time Rebate' s (PTR' s) potential dirty little secret - many customers will get paid for doing nothing, based on normal random variations in their electricity use. PTR programs are known as carrot-only or win-win p ...

Small Business Customers' Response to Time-Based Rates
Table of Contents Published: 2009/02
Utility companies are increasingly looking to time-based rates as a means to shift load and control costs. Most utility efforts in this area have focused on the extreme ends of the energy usage spectrum, either residential or large commercial and industri ...

Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry IT Spending Guide Methodology and Taxonomy, 3Q08
Table of Contents Published: 2009/02
This Energy Insights report provides a detailed description of Energy Insights' industry and technology taxonomy. ...

EMEA Utility Industry 2009 Top 10 Predictions
Table of Contents Published: 2009/01
This document is about EMEA Utility Industry 2009 Top 10 Predictions. ...

North America Utility Industry 2009 Top 10 Predictions
Table of Contents Published: 2009/01
This Energy Insights report presents our top 10 predictions for the North American utility industry in 2009. The content of this report will also be presented as part of a Web conference on January 8, 2009. ...

Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry 2009 Top 10 Predictions
Table of Contents Published: 2009/01
This Energy Insights report presents our top predictions for the oil and gas industry in 2009. Oil and gas companies are not immune to tough times, and the current economic conditions are creating and exacerbating different challenges within the indus ...

Beyond the Bill: In-Home Displays Deliver Energy Savings
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
This Energy Insights report - the fourth in a series on in-home displays - examines the impact of in-home display units on residential electricity consumption. We summarize the results of three industry pilots and look at the results achieved by a utility ...

Economic Crisis Response: U.S. IT 2008-2012 Forecast Update by Vertical
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
This Energy Insights Perspective augments other revised IDC forecasts by offering a posteconomic crisis update of the U.S. IT Budget Outlook and Spending Forecast by Vertical Market and Company Size, 1Q08 (IDC #212956, July 2008). ...

Energy Management for Customers: What's New in In-Home Displays?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
This Energy Insights report updates the vendors and features available in the in-home display (IHD) market for utilities and consumers. It also provides some information about pilots that are ongoing and gives utility personnel some ideas on what to consi ...

Intelligent Grids Serve Customers as well as Utilities
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
This Energy Insights report analyzes the intelligent grid from the standpoint of customer service and satisfaction. It provides guidance on technologies and strategies that utilities should be considering while building out the intelligent grid to preserv ...

Managing Carbon Emissions: Must-Have Technology for Compliance, Sustainability, and Cost of Carbon
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
This Energy Insights report describes the information technology stack that energy companies are adopting to meet their obligations for compliance, corporate responsibility, and carbon trading. This report begins with a description of the current business ...

Trends in Customer Response to High-Priced Energy
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
This Energy Insights report discusses customer reaction to rising energy prices from 2006 to 2008, the impact of higher gasoline prices on customers' household budgets, and actions customers are taking to manage their bills and control costs. Higher month ...

Utility IT Budget Survey for 2008-2009: Capital Investments and Economic Conditions Make Budgeting Critical
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
This Energy Insights report summarizes the results of the Utility IT Budget Survey for 2008-2009 and provides analysis of the survey results, as well as some comparison data from previous years' surveys. The document gives insights for CIOs to consider in ...

Web 2.0: New Collaboration Technologies for the Oil and Gas Industry
Table of Contents Published: 2008/12
This Energy Insights report discusses the results of interviews with oil and gas companies and independent software vendors that serve the oil and gas industry. Energy Insights asked these industry players about their company' s use of Web 2.0 technologie ...

Attitudes and Trends: Sustainability and the Greening of Utilities in North America
Table of Contents Published: 2008/11
This Energy Insights report discusses a phone survey on North American utilities conducted by Energy Insights to determine their attitudes toward green and sustainability initiatives. The key focus of the survey was to understand management and organizati ...

Europe Takes the Lion's Share of PV Market
Table of Contents Published: 2008/11
This Energy Insights Perspective examines the mercurial state of the solar photovoltaic (PV) market and explores the industry' s outlook as it relates to electric utilities. PV technology has come a long way since its initial rollout in the mid-20th centu ...

Refinery of the Future: The Industry's Vision
Table of Contents Published: 2008/11
This Energy Insights report reviews the major refining companies and their approach to a refinery of the future, along with information technology vendor offerings to this segment of the oil and gas industry. ...

Sustainability Attitudes and Trends in Oil and Gas
Table of Contents Published: 2008/11
This Energy Insights report discusses the results of a survey conducted via telephone with companies in North America regarding their attitudes related to green initiatives and sustainability. ...

A Broader Market for Prepayment Metering: Moving Beyond Payment-Challenged Customers
Table of Contents Published: 2008/10
This Energy Insights report summarizes key findings from the Energy Insights' 2008 National Residential Online Panel Prepayment Metering Survey. Although payment-challenged customers have been the primary market for prepayment metering, the survey finding ...

Industry Short List for Carbon Management - Compliance and Sustainability
Table of Contents Published: 2008/10
This Energy Insights report is intended to help executives arrive at a short list of IT suppliers in the carbon management application area that best address the needs of the business. Energy Insights used the Industry Short List methodology to compare te ...

Load Forecasting Salary Survey
Table of Contents Published: 2008/10
This Energy Insights update and the accompanying PowerPoint document present the results of Energy Insights' Load Forecasting Salary Survey. Load forecasting requires a unique set of skills and experience that are not typically required elsewhere within t ...

Upstream Oil and Gas: Committed to Technology to Bring Out the Oil
Table of Contents Published: 2008/10
This Energy Insights report discusses a research study conducted with upstream oil and gas companies to find out about their current and anticipated business and information technology investment priorities and strategies. The top IT and businesses trends ...

What's Next for PV?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/10
This Energy Insights Perspective examines the mercurial state of the solar photovoltaic (PV) market and explores the industry' s future outlook as it relates to electric utilities. PV technology has come a long way since its initial rollout in the mid-20t ...

A Competitive Analysis of the 2008 Top 10 EMEA IT Vendors in the Utilities Market
Table of Contents Published: 2008/09
This document is about A Competitive Analysis of the 2008 Top 10 EMEA IT Vendors in the Utilities Market. ...

Customer Satisfaction: What Technology Is Used? What Gets Measured?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/09
This Energy Insights report summarizes the results of a utility IT executive study on how utilities are measuring business performance related to customer satisfaction and some information from Energy Insights' National Residential Panel Customer Satisfac ...

Lessons Learned in Low-Income Energy Efficiency Programs
Table of Contents Published: 2008/09
This Energy Insights report discusses effective strategies for administering low-income energy efficiency programs and the challenges program managers face implementing the programs. Rising energy prices are taking their toll on most U.S. families, but lo ...

Western Europe, Utilities Industry, IT Spending, Forecast 2007-2012
Table of Contents Published: 2008/09
This Energy Insights report presents the market-sizing and forecast estimates for the utilities industry in Western Europe for 2007-2012. ...

American Electric Power: Using Information Technology to Manage Carbon Emissions
Table of Contents Published: 2008/08
This Energy Insights report details the example of American Electric Power, a utility taking a leadership role in sustainability and the use of information technology to help manage carbon emissions. The report describes the business challenges faced by t ...

Can't We All Just Get Along? IT and Load Research Departments Play Nicely in the Post-AMI World
Table of Contents Published: 2008/08
This Energy Insights report pays special attention to the way load research and IT departments interact to address the challenges presented by collecting, accessing, and validating the much larger quantities of interval data gathered by automated meter re ...

Leveraging IT in Building Green Businesses
Table of Contents Published: 2008/08
This study looks at how businesses within the manufacturing, retail, energy, and financial services sectors are working to create more sustainable business practices. In its most basic definition, sustainability means meeting the needs of the present with ...

Who's Next, McDonald's? The Intelligent Grid Technology Landscape and Vendor Bandwagon
Table of Contents Published: 2008/08
This Energy Insights report looks at the current intelligent grid technology and vendor landscape. Although many people in the utility industry claim that the intelligent grid is still a ways off for most utilities, Energy Insights has found that many uti ...

T&D Movers and Shakers: Technology Capabilities for Mobile Personnel and Assets
Table of Contents Published: 2008/07
This Energy Insights report discusses the mobile technology landscape in the North American utility industry and how utilities are using these technologies for their field crews in the energy delivery asset life-cycle business processes. Mobile personnel ...

Energy Trading and Risk Management for the Utility Industry - Going Steady
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
This Energy Insights report presents the market sizing and forecast for ETRM applications in the utility industry. This forecast covers the set of transactional and analytic applications used across the front, middle, and back offices of companies engagin ...

Energy Trading and Risk Management in the Oil and Gas Industry: The World of $125+-Per-Barrel Oil
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
This Energy Insights report presents the market sizing and forecast for ETRM applications in the oil and gas industry. This forecast covers the set of transactional and analytic applications used across the front, middle, and back offices of companies eng ...

Large Stationary Fuel Cells, 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
This Energy Insights report explores the technical, market, and policy trends impacting the development of the large fuel cell sector (25kW-5MW+). ...

To Call or Not to Call: When to Call Demand Response Events
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
This Energy Insights report examines seven fully deployed residential demand response programs and two pilot programs across the United States and Canada to uncover a variety of methods for calling events and allocating event hours. ...

Utility Renewable and Distributed Energy Strategies for Addressing Climate Change
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
This Energy Insights report evaluates how regulatory and market activity surrounding greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions in North America is triggering utility responses favorable to renewable energy (RE) and distributed energy (DE) technologies. ...

Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry IT Spending Guide Methodology and Taxonomy, Version 1, 2008
Table of Contents Published: 2008/06
This Energy Insights report provides a detailed description of Energy Insights' industry and technology taxonomy. ...

AGA EEI Customer Service Conference: Satisfaction Focuses on Energy Efficiency, Service Options, and Customer Touch Points
Table of Contents Published: 2008/05
This Energy Insights Perspective reviews the recent AGA EEI Customer Service Conference, with insights into the hot topics at the conference. This Perspective concludes with guidance in better customer service for utilities and vendors. ...

Technology Adoption in Upstream - The Pace Picks Up
Table of Contents Published: 2008/05
This Energy Insights report examines the recent advances in information technology that are particularly applicable to the upstream oil and gas industry, where the pace of technology investment is also picking up. The report covers new and emerging softwa ...

The Smarts of an Intelligent Grid: Analytics for Intelligent Grid Initiatives
Table of Contents Published: 2008/05
This report focuses on intelligent grid analytics and dives into how utilities and vendors are addressing the need to analyze more complex intelligent grid interactions and make effective decisions. ...

What Path are PHEVs Taking in Europe?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/05
This report examines how automakers, battery developers, utilities, and policy makers are approaching the possibilities of PHEVs as well as the technical challenges that must be overcome to achieve widespread commercialization. ...

AMI-Enabled Utility Programs - Customer Response to Real-Time Pricing
Table of Contents Published: 2008/04
National Residential Online Panel Real-Time Pricing Survey. Although some experts are skeptical about residential customers' interest and ability to respond to a real-time pricing (RTP) rate, the survey findings, along with the results of utility pilots a ...

Load Research Salary Survey
Table of Contents Published: 2008/04
This Energy Insights update and the accompanying PowerPoint document present the results of the Energy Insights Load Research Salary Survey. Load research requires a unique set of skills and experience that are not typically required elsewhere within the ...

Offshore Wind: Ready for Prime Time?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/04
This Energy Insights report examines the emerging offshore wind energy sector in Europe and its prospects for North American market penetration. ...

Demand Response Aggregators: Boosting Program Participation
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
This Energy Insights report looks at the reasons why utilities choose to work with demand response (DR) aggregators. ...

In-Home Display Units: An Evolving Market, Part 1
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
This Energy Insights report is the first in a two-part series that examines in-home energy display products that are currently available or soon to enter commercialization. ...

In-Home Display Units: An Evolving Market, Part 2
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
This Energy Insights report is the second in a two-part series that examines in-home display (IHD) products that are currently available and their planned upgrades. ...

U.S. Oil and Gas 2008 Go-to-Market Strategy Guide
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
This Energy Insights report presents a comprehensive view of the latest IT trends, challenges, and opportunities that will shape the U.S. oil and gas industry in 2008. From reporting on the general health of the industry, zeroing in on the fastest-growing ...

U.S. Utilities 2008 Go-to-Market Strategy Guide
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
This annual strategy guide presents a comprehensive view of the IT trends, challenges, and opportunities that will shape the U.S. utility industry in 2008. From reporting on the general health of the industry, zeroing in on the fastest-growing geographic ...

Western Europe, Utilities Industry, IT Solutions and Technologies: Energy Insights-IDC 2007 Survey
Table of Contents Published: 2008/03
This report provides an analysis of results of the annual Energy Insights-IDC European Vertical Market Survey covering France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K. ...

European Offshore Wind: Poised for Growth?
Table of Contents Published: 2008/02
This Energy Insights report examines the emerging offshore wind energy sector, particularly in Europe. ...

New Developments in High-Performance Computing: Bringing GPUs to Bear to Increase Computing Capabilities
Table of Contents Published: 2008/02
This Energy Insights report focuses on the challenges facing the oil industry as it works to meet increasing energy demand. ...

Pencils Down! Utilities Increase Technology Capabilities for Mobile Personnel and Assets
Table of Contents Published: 2008/02
This Energy Insights report discusses the mobile technology landscape in the North American utility industry and how utilities are using those technologies for their field crews in the asset life-cycle business processes. Mobile personnel - including fiel ...

Rising Energy Prices Are Fueling Business Customer Investment in Energy Efficiency
Table of Contents Published: 2008/02
This Energy Insights Perspective discusses the results of a 2007 Johnson Controls survey and how utilities can use this information to support their energy efficiency programs for business customers. ...

Global Oil and Gas 2008 Top 10 Predictions: Navigating a Healthy But Volatile Year
Table of Contents Published: 2008/01
This Energy Insights report covers our top 10 predictions for the global oil and gas industry in 2008. ...

North America Utility Industry 2008 Top 10 Predictions
Table of Contents Published: 2008/01
This Energy Insights report covers Energy Insights' top 10 predictions for the North American utility industry in 2008. The content of this report will also be presented as part of a Web conference on January 10, 2008. The scope of the report includes bot ...

Western Europe, Utilities Industry, IT Budget Distribution and Channel Selection: IDC 2007 Survey
Table of Contents Published: 2008/01
This report provides an analysis of results of the annual IDC Vertical Market Survey covering France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K. Analysis is focused on the utilities industry and is based on 99 interviews carried out between August and November 2 ...

Central Europe Utilities Survey and IT Spending Forecast 2007-2011
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
This study provides an overview of the utility industry in Central Europe as well as details of the structure of the utility markets in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. ...

Commercialization Starts for Residential Micro-CHP
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
This Energy Insights report explores the current status of key residential micro-CHP product manufacturers, both in the United States and abroad. ...

Distributed and Renewable Energy Outlook Fall 2007 Conference
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
This Energy Insights update includes the presentations from the Energy Insights Distributed and Renewable Energy Outlook conference held November 29-30, 2007, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which brought together industry leaders with diverse views to dis ...

Energy Use Data at Your Fingertips: Customer Reaction to In-Home Display Units
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
This Energy Insights report summarizes key findings from the 2007 Energy Insights National Residential Online Panel In-Home Display Survey. ...

Loyalty and Rebates: Two Sides of the Coin in Customer Satisfaction
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
This Energy Insights report presents information on rebates and customer loyalty programs. Energy efficiency is increasingly viewed as an important tool for utilities to maximize cost savings by offsetting generation capacity, particularly during peak loa ...

What's Up in Load Research
Table of Contents Published: 2007/12
This Energy Insights update provides highlights from the Western Load Research Association (WLRA) biannual conference held in late September in San Francisco. ...

Advanced Electrical Energy Storage: Case Studies of Early Commercial and Deployment Efforts
Table of Contents Published: 2007/11
This document is about Advanced Electrical Energy Storage: Case Studies of Early Commercial and Deployment Efforts. ...

Intelligent Utilities: The Future of Electric Grids
Table of Contents Published: 2007/11
This document is about Intelligent Utilities: The Future of Electric Grids ...

Tell Me More: What Customers Want on Their Monthly Bills
Table of Contents Published: 2007/11
This document is about Tell Me More: What Customers Want on Their Monthly Bills ...

VeQuiDs and QuiDs? Building the Information Foundation for Advanced Intelligent Grid Analytics
Table of Contents Published: 2007/11
This document is about VeQuiDs and QuiDs? Building the Information Foundation for Advanced Intelligent Grid Analytics ...

Industry Short List for Enterprise Asset Management for Refining: Keeping Petroleum Flowing
Table of Contents Published: 2007/10
This document is about Industry Short List for Enterprise Asset Management for Refining: Keeping Petroleum Flowing ...

Utility IT Budget Survey for 2007-2008: Innovation and Growth Strategies Are Increasingly Important
Table of Contents Published: 2007/10
This document is about Utility IT Budget Survey for 2007-2008: Innovation and Growth Strategies Are Increasingly Important ...

Facing the Carbon Footprint: Applying Information Technology to Emissions Strategy
Table of Contents Published: 2007/09
This document is about Facing the Carbon Footprint: Applying Information Technology to Emissions Strategy ...

PHEVs: On the Road to Being Part of the Distribution System?
Table of Contents Published: 2007/09
This document is about PHEVs: On the Road to Being Part of the Distribution System? ...

Should You Really Mind the Gap? Bridging the Intelligent Grid Gap Between the Substation and the Meter
Table of Contents Published: 2007/09
This document is about Should You Really Mind the Gap? Bridging the Intelligent Grid Gap Between the Substation and the Meter ...

Wind on the Wires: Providing Grid Access to Renewable Energy
Table of Contents Published: 2007/09
This document is about Wind on the Wires: Providing Grid Access to Renewable Energy ...

Customer Concerns About Climate Change
Table of Contents Published: 2007/08
This document is about Customer Concerns About Climate Change ...

Energy Trading and Risk Management in the Oil and Gas Industry - Electronic Trading Strong and Growing
Table of Contents Published: 2007/08
This document is about Energy Trading and Risk Management in the Oil and Gas Industry - Electronic Trading Strong and Growing ...

The Utility Meter-to-Cash Process: BPO Forecast and New Outsourcing Models
Table of Contents Published: 2007/08
This document is about The Utility Meter-to-Cash Process: BPO Forecast and New Outsourcing Models ...

Who Has What? Predictive Modeling Using Customer Billing Data
Table of Contents Published: 2007/08
This document is about Who Has What? Predictive Modeling Using Customer Billing Data ...

Working with What You Have - Operating Refineries in North America
Table of Contents Published: 2007/08
This document is about Working with What You Have - Operating Refineries in North America ...

Acquiring Renewable Energy: Case Studies of European Utility Drivers and Approaches
Table of Contents Published: 2007/07
This document is about Acquiring Renewable Energy: Case Studies of European Utility Drivers and Approaches ...

Crossing the Void: Customers Logging on to Utility Web Sites for Power Outage Information
Table of Contents Published: 2007/07
This document is about Crossing the Void: Customers Logging on to Utility Web Sites for Power Outage Information ...

U.S. Wind 2007: An Industry Primed for Sustained Growth
Table of Contents Published: 2007/07
This document is about U.S. Wind 2007: An Industry Primed for Sustained Growth ...

What's New with Demand Response
Table of Contents Published: 2007/07
This document is about What' s New with Demand Response ...

A Biomass Revival Under Way: Case Studies of Recent Projects Across the United States
Table of Contents Published: 2007/06
This document is about A Biomass Revival Under Way: Case Studies of Recent Projects Across the United States ...

Central Solar Thermal Power's Revival
Table of Contents Published: 2007/06
This document is about Central Solar Thermal Power' s Revival ...

Energy Trading and Risk Management - Electronic Trading Takes Off
Table of Contents Published: 2007/06
This document is about Energy Trading and Risk Management - Electronic Trading Takes Off ...

Smart Metering Update
Table of Contents Published: 2007/06
This document is about Smart Metering Update ...

Time-Based Pricing Programs: Creating a Favorable Customer Response
Table of Contents Published: 2007/06
This document is about Time-Based Pricing Programs: Creating a Favorable Customer Response ...

What If Coke Bought Up Pepsi? The Enterprise Versus Best-of-Breed Debate in Supply Chain Management for Energy Delivery
Table of Contents Published: 2007/06
This document is about What If Coke Bought Up Pepsi? The Enterprise Versus Best-of-Breed Debate in Supply Chain Management for Energy Delivery ...

Worldwide and North America Work and Asset Management 2006-2010 Spending Forecast and Analysis - Power Generation
Table of Contents Published: 2007/06
This document is about Worldwide and North America Work and Asset Management 2006-2010 Spending Forecast and Analysis - Power Generation ...

Distributed and Renewable Energy Outlook 2007 Spring Conference
Table of Contents Published: 2007/05
This document is about Distributed and Renewable Energy Outlook 2007 Spring Conference ...

Exploration and Production - Geology and Geophysics Software
Table of Contents Published: 2007/05
This document is about Exploration and Production - Geology and Geophysics Software ...

Revenue Assurance - Making the Best Return on Services and Products
Table of Contents Published: 2007/05
This document is about Revenue Assurance - Making the Best Return on Services and Products ...

Utility Dispatch of Customer-Sited Distributed Energy Assets 2007
Table of Contents Published: 2007/05
This document is about Utility Dispatch of Customer-Sited Distributed Energy Assets 2007 ...

Desire for Predictability Driving Adoption of Fixed Bills
Table of Contents Published: 2007/04
This document is about Desire for Predictability Driving Adoption of Fixed Bills ...

Energy Efficiency and Demand Response: Separate Efforts or Two Ends of a Continuum?
Table of Contents Published: 2007/04
This document is about Energy Efficiency and Demand Response: Separate Efforts or Two Ends of a Continuum? ...

Industry Short List for Work and Asset Management for Energy Delivery: 2007 Update
Table of Contents Published: 2007/04
This document is about Industry Short List for Work and Asset Management for Energy Delivery: 2007 Update ...

Industry Short List for Work and Asset Management for Power Generation: Keeping Availability Up
Table of Contents Published: 2007/04
This document is about Industry Short List for Work and Asset Management for Power Generation: Keeping Availability Up ...

Industry Short List: Customer Information Systems for Tier 1 Utilities
Table of Contents Published: 2007/04
This document is about Industry Short List: Customer Information Systems for Tier 1 Utilities ...

Breaking Free of the Old Pole and Chain: New Third-Party Communications Options to Support the Intelligent Grid
Table of Contents Published: 2007/03
This document is about Breaking Free of the Old Pole and Chain: New Third-Party Communications Options to Support the Intelligent Grid ...

Distributed Energy for Distribution System Support at DTE Energy
Table of Contents Published: 2007/03
This document is about Distributed Energy for Distribution System Support at DTE Energy ...

Getting the Tanker to Turn - Vendor Consolidation in the Utility Industry
Table of Contents Published: 2007/03
This document is about Getting the Tanker to Turn - Vendor Consolidation in the Utility Industry. ...

The CIS Market - Get Ready for Major Shifts
Table of Contents Published: 2007/03
This document is about The CIS Market - Get Ready for Major Shifts ...

Defining IT Governance and Emerging Trends to Drive Business Adaptability
Table of Contents Published: 2007/02
This document is about Defining IT Governance and Emerging Trends to Drive Business Adaptability ...

European Utility Industry 2007 Top 10 Predictions: A Year for a Wild Ride
Table of Contents Published: 2007/02
This document is about European Utility Industry 2007 Top 10 Predictions: A Year for a Wild Ride ...

PRODML: Enhancing the E&P Industry's Data Exchange and Reporting Mechanism
Table of Contents Published: 2007/02
This Energy Insights report presents the role of the Production XML (PRODML) standard in enhancing the exploration and production (E&P) industry' s production data exchange and reporting mechanisms. We describe the current industry dynamics related to the ...

Worldwide and North America Work and Asset Management 2006-2010 Spending Forecast and Analysis
Table of Contents Published: 2007/02
This Energy Insights report studies the work and asset management spending patterns of the energy delivery (i.e., transmission and distribution) business in the utility industry. ...

Managing AMI Data
Table of Contents Published: 2007/01
This Energy Insights report considers how installation of automated meter reading (AMR) and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) systems is affecting utility load research departments. ...

Renewable Energy as a Utility Hedge Strategy
Table of Contents Published: 2007/01
This Energy Insights report examines the viability of incorporating renewables as a utility hedge strategy against fossil fuel price fluctuations and potential environmental compliance costs. ...

Criteria Air Emissions and Distributed Energy: Pushing the Envelope for Technology and Economics
Table of Contents Published: 2006/12
This Energy Insights report describes the regulatory environment for criteria emissions and distributed energy (DE) at the national, state, and local levels. ...

E&P Industry Trends - From Angels and VCs to Engineers and Geophysicists
Table of Contents Published: 2006/12
This Energy Insights Perspective presents key exploration and production (E&P) industry trends based on Energy Insights' detailed analyses of important North American conferences held during fall 2006. ...

Residential Energy Efficiency Programs: Are Consumer Rebates Necessary?
Table of Contents Published: 2006/12
This Energy Insights report discusses whether it is necessary for utility companies to offer rebates to help influence residential consumers to purchase energy-efficient technologies. ...

Small Stationary Fuel Cells, 2006
Table of Contents Published: 2006/12
This Energy Insights report examines the market for small stationary fuel cells, ranging in size from 1kW to 20kW. ...

Time-of-Use and Critical Peak Pricing: Considerations for Program Design
Table of Contents Published: 2006/12
This Energy Insights report focuses on the design of voluntary time-of-use (TOU) programs designed to shift load from on-peak to off-peak periods. ...

Utility IT Budget: 2006-2007 Survey
Table of Contents Published: 2006/12
This Energy Insights report summarizes the results of the Utility IT Budget Survey for 2006-2007. The document also includes some analysis of the results at a strategic level. ...

Worldwide Energy Industry 2007 Top 10 Predictions
Table of Contents Published: 2006/12
This Energy Insights report covers our top 10 predictions for the energy industry in 2007. ...

Case Study: New York Power Authority Implements Portal to Enhance Generation Bidding Optimization
Table of Contents Published: 2006/11
This Energy Insights report describes in depth the experience that the New York Power Authority (NYPA) had in implementing a portal to enhance generation bid optimization in the New York deregulated energy marketplace. ...

Consumer Reaction to Rising Energy Prices
Table of Contents Published: 2006/11
This Energy Insights report discusses consumer reaction to rising energy prices, the impact of higher prices on customer satisfaction, and customer response to utility companies' efforts to help customers manage their increasing monthly bills. ...

Energy Insights: Central Europe Utilities Survey and IT Spending Forecast, 2006-2010
Table of Contents Published: 2006/11
This study provides an overview of the utility industry in Central Europe as well as details of the structure of the utility markets in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. ...

Gas Nominations Involve More than Just Scheduling
Table of Contents Published: 2006/11
This Energy Insights report discusses gas nominations, scheduling, and settlement for pipelines. ...

Industry Short List for Hydrocarbon Accounting
Table of Contents Published: 2006/11
This Energy Insights report is intended to help exploration and production (E&P) industry executives quickly arrive at a short list of hydrocarbon accounting application suppliers. ...

Large Stationary Fuel Cells 2006
Table of Contents Published: 2006/11
This Energy Insights report examines the market for large stationary fuel cells. ...

Smart Metering: Realizing the Benefits
Table of Contents Published: 2006/11
This Energy Insights report reviews the current drivers in smart metering for the meter-to-cash process within an energy provider and the drivers and benefits that affect energy consumers. ...

TXU Puts BPL in Spotlight, Possibly for BPL's Swan Song
Table of Contents Published: 2006/11
This Energy Insights update first reviews changes in the broadband over power line (BPL) industry since our July 2005 report, Broadband over Power Line: Impact for Utility Companies (Energy Insights #EI10050, July 2005). ...

Worldwide Utility Industry IT Spending Guide Taxonomy and Methodology
Table of Contents Published: 2006/11
This Energy Insights report provides a detailed description of Energy Insights' utility industry and technology taxonomy. ...

FERC's Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering: Low Penetration but Significant Potential
Table of Contents Published: 2006/10
This Energy Insights Perspective examines the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) report Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering and its implications for energy providers and technology vendors. ...

Residential Distributed Energy: A Growing and Evolving Market
Table of Contents Published: 2006/10
This Energy Insights report explores the current status of key manufacturer micro-combined heat and power (micro-CHP) products, both in the United States and abroad, with a focus on engine-driven systems, including Stirling engines. ...

Upstream Strategies at ExxonMobil
Table of Contents Published: 2006/10
This Energy Insights Perspective presents key upstream operational highlights for ExxonMobil in 2005. ...

Acquiring Renewable Energy: Case Studies of Utility Drivers and Approaches
Table of Contents Published: 2006/09
This Energy Insights report covers the policy, economic, and technology developments that are driving the acquisition of renewable energy by U.S. utilities. Ten case studies evaluate utility approaches to obtaining green energy resources and reveal the re ...

Are Consumers Ready to Plug into the Future of Hybrid Vehicles?
Table of Contents Published: 2006/09
This Energy Insights report discusses the potential market for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). A PHEV is similar to current hybrid vehicles available, but with the capability to recharge its larger battery using a standard 120-volt outlet. ...

Energy Market Profiles, 2006
Table of Contents Published: 2006/09
This Energy Insights update presents Energy Insights' Energy Market Profiles (EMP), which provide a snapshot of annual energy use by end use and fuel and region for major customer segments in the commercial, residential, and manufacturing segments. ...

Guarding the Door for Cybersecurity Attacks: Rethinking Network Automation and Control System Initiatives
Table of Contents Published: 2006/09
This Energy Insights report studies recent developments in cybersecurity for network automation and control systems. ...

Market Overview: Offshoring in the Utilities Industry Focuses on Projects
Table of Contents Published: 2006/09
This Energy Insights report reviews the use of offshore resources provided by offshore service firms in the utility industry. ...

Worldwide Oil and Gas IT Spending Guide Methodology and Taxonomy
Table of Contents Published: 2006/09
This Energy Insights report provides a detailed description of Energy Insights' industry and technology taxonomy. ...

Aging Workforce - The Big Crew Change in Exploration and Production
Table of Contents Published: 2006/08
This Energy Insights report explores and documents the aging workforce problem in the global exploration and production industry, with a specific emphasis on the problem of aging engineering and technical staff in the upstream line of the business. ...

Has Electrical Energy Storage Finally Arrived?: Case Studies of Successful Applications
Table of Contents Published: 2006/08
This Energy Insights Report profiles seven case studies that show how energy storage can cost-effectively defer T&D asset upgrades and provide grid support. Despite the potential of electric energy storage to improve the reliability and efficiency of the ...

Mergers and Acquisitions - IT Supports Synergy Savings for Utilities
Table of Contents Published: 2006/08
This Energy Insights Perspective discusses information technology's role in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) at utility companies. ...

Web Self-Service for Residential Customers
Table of Contents Published: 2006/08
This report examines residential customer website use and provides recommendations for improving websites and driving customers to the web. Results are based on primary market research from the 2006 Residential Customer Insights Market Survey, as well as ...

Demystifying the Digital Oilfield
Table of Contents Published: 2006/07
This Energy Insights report presents the opportunities and challenges for business process improvement in the exploration and production (E&P) industry through digital oilfield initiatives. ...

Gas Load Forecasting Best Practices
Table of Contents Published: 2006/07
Gas load forecasters face new challenges due to volatile, though generally rising gas prices, and larger than expected consumer responses to price changes. This report highlights these trends, based on discussions with gas load forecasters at eight utilit ...

Moving Beyond the Hype: The Future of the Intelligent Grid
Table of Contents Published: 2006/07
This Energy Insights report provides an overview of the intelligent grid and studies the implications of intelligent grid technologies for utilities. ...

Prepaid Metering: Moving Beyond Collection Challenges into Customer Service
Table of Contents Published: 2006/07
This Energy Insights report provides a look at the current situation in prepayment metering for energy companies in the United States, with specific case examples. ...

Results of the Distributed Energy 2006 Residential Market Survey
Table of Contents Published: 2006/07
Results of Energy Insights' market survey of over 1,000 residential customers indicate that the residential market in North America now offers increased opportunities for distributed energy (DE). ...

EnergyRisk Conference Summary - High Prices, Hedging, and Hurricanes
Table of Contents Published: 2006/06
This Energy Insights' Perspective examines the highlights of the North American EnergyRisk conference, the implications for information technology, and the intriguing IT offerings represented at the conference. ...

Microturbines 2006: Despite Lackluster Year, Opportunities Remain on the Horizon
Table of Contents Published: 2006/06
This report profiles the major players active in the market and provides information on their systems currently available, systems in development, and major installations. ...

Role of Technology in Mitigating Uncertainty and Risk for Exploration and Production Companies
Table of Contents Published: 2006/06
This Energy Insights Perspective examines 21 specific aspects of risk and uncertainty in the upstream oil and gas industry through real-world examples. ...

Customer Information Systems in Competitive Retail Markets
Table of Contents Published: 2006/05
This Energy Insights report provides an overview of the current situation in retail electric competition worldwide and examples of customer information systems in use by retail electric providers as well as information about the drivers those providers us ...

Growth and Change - Forecasting the Global Market for Energy Trading and Risk Management
Table of Contents Published: 2006/05
This Energy Insights report provides a market size and forecast for the energy trading and risk management (ETRM) applications market in the oil and gas (O&G) and utilities sectors. ...

Industry Short List for Work and Asset Management
Table of Contents Published: 2006/05
This Energy Insights report is intended to help energy and utility industry executives quickly arrive at a short list of work and asset management application suppliers. ...

The Renewed Push for PV: New Paths and Programs for Photovoltaics
Published: 2006/05
This report provides new path and programs for photovoltaics. ...

IT Effectiveness: Communicating the Value of IT Investment
Table of Contents Published: 2006/04
This Energy Insights update is the first in a series for the Energy Insights Energy Executive Council on IT effectiveness. ...

Looking Ahead: RTOs Take on Real-Time Challenges
Table of Contents Published: 2006/04
This Energy Insights report describes the activities of the regional transmission organizations (RTOs), summarizes ongoing projects at the RTOs, and presents a case study of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation at Midwest ISO. ...

Oil Sands and Conventional E&P in Western Canada - A Shift in the Global Energy Power Play?
Table of Contents Published: 2006/04
This Energy Insights report analyzes the unique business environment and the business processes and drivers that are influencing the oil sands industry and the conventional exploration and production (E&P) industry in Western Canada. ...

Smart Metering: Impact on Distribution Companies
Table of Contents Published: 2006/04
This Energy Insights report defines the emerging smart metering set of technologies, describes the business and regulatory drivers for investments in smart metering ...

Fleet Analytics - Optimizing Participation in the Market
Table of Contents Published: 2006/03
This Energy Insights report examines optimization used for unit commitment and economic dispatch from the perspective of the generation company. ...

High-Performance Computing in Seismic Interpretation and Reservoir Modeling
Table of Contents Published: 2006/03
This Energy Insights report presents the opportunities and challenges for high-performance computing (HPC) and visualization in business process improvement in the exploration industry. ...

How Hot Was It? Calculating Typical and Extreme Weather
Published: 2006/03
How Hot Was It? Calculating Typical and Extreme Weather ...

Load Forecasting Benchmarking and Best Practices
Table of Contents Published: 2006/03
The Load Forecasting Benchmarking and Best Practices project identifies today's best practices in short- and longer-term forecasting to provide actionable methods for improving load forecasting accuracy and processes, and reducing costs. ...

Production Accounting - Enabling Production Optimization and ERP Integration
Table of Contents Published: 2006/03
This Energy Insights report presents the opportunities and challenges for business process improvement in production accounting in the oil and gas industry. ...

Utility Economic Development: Perspectives on Trends and Practices
Table of Contents Published: 2006/03
Economic development has long been an important function for utilities as they aim for diversified revenue growth in fixed territories ...

Distributed Energy in the Healthcare Sector: An Update on the Market
Table of Contents Published: 2006/02
For today's increasingly digital and data-driven hospitals, consistently reliable power is essential. ...

Energy Upstream Industry Overview Part
Table of Contents Published: 2006/02
This Energy Insights report is the first part of a two-part document that examines the current business environment and drivers for investment in business process improvement and supporting technologies in the global energy upstream market. ...

The Power of the Incumbent - Entergy Nuclear to Deploy Indus
Published: 2006/02
This Energy Insights NewsFlash looks at Entergy Nuclear's considerations in choosing an enterprise asset management (EAM) vendor and provides a future outlook on EAM for generation. ...

Load Impacts of Distributed Energy
Table of Contents Published: 2006/01
Distributed energy (DE) refers to the use of small-scale power generation located close to the load being served. Factors stimulating interest in DE include utility restructuring, high electricity prices, and reliability concerns. ...

Looking Ahead - Operating Generation as a Fleet
Table of Contents Published: 2006/01
This Energy Insights report examines the current business and regulatory conditions shaping power generation. Power companies are taking a new approach to generation. Successful companies are operating generation as a fleet. ...

A Comprehensive Picture of Data Management in the Upstream Industry - Concepts, Challenges, and Opportunities
Table of Contents Published: 2005/12
A comprehensive picture of the various concepts, challenges, and opportunities for data management in the upstream oil and gas industry is presented in this report. ...

Abating Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Impact on Distributed Energy
Published: 2005/12
This report provides analysis regarding Greenhouse Gas Emissions. ...

Aging Workforce in the U.S. Wholesale Energy Business
Table of Contents Published: 2005/12
This Energy Insights study explores and documents the aging workforce problem in the U.S. utility industry, with a specific emphasis on the problem of aging engineering and technical staff in the energy delivery line of business. ...

Characteristics of Demand Response Customers: Utility Perspectives on C&I Participation and Motivation
Table of Contents Published: 2005/12
To be effective, a demand response (DR) program must typically be a win/win proposition for the sponsor and the customer. ...

Load Research Benchmarking and Best Practices
Table of Contents Published: 2005/12
The Load Forecasting Benchmarking and Best Practices project identifies today's best practices in short- and longer-term forecasting to provide actionable methods for improving load forecasting accuracy and processes, and reducing costs. ...

Marketing to Midsize-Business Customers: Part 1 - Case Studies
Table of Contents Published: 2005/12
The midsize-business market is a challenging segment for utilities to serve. Midsize businesses are more energy savvy than smaller businesses, but have little time for anything other than their core business functions. ...

Planning and Design Issues for Residential Direct Load Control Programs: Setting the Stage for Savings
Table of Contents Published: 2005/12
This report details the steps for successful program design, using four utility programs as case studies. ...

Renewable Energy Credits: Serving Voluntary and Compliance Markets
Table of Contents Published: 2005/12
Renewable energy credits (RECs) have grown to a hundred-million-dollar market in the U.S., driven by the growth in renewable portfolio standards and voluntary green pricing markets. ...

Worldwide Utilities Revenue for the Top 50 IT Vendors, 2004
Table of Contents Published: 2005/12
This Energy Insights update provides our best estimates of the worldwide utilities revenue of the top 50 IT vendors in CY04. This update provides one measurement of a vendor's strength in or reliance on the utilities industry. ...

Aging Workforce in the U.S. Energy Delivery Business
Table of Contents Published: 2005/11
This Energy Insights study explores and documents the aging-workforce problem in the U.S. utility industry, with a specific emphasis on the problem of aging engineering and technical staff in the energy delivery line of business. ...

Implementation Costs for Customer Information Systems in the U.S. Utility Industry
Table of Contents Published: 2005/11
This Energy Insights study provides a current analysis of customer information system (CIS) implementation costs for systems implemented within the past three years by U.S. utilities. ...

Natural Gas Prices Reach New Heights on Changing Fundamentals: A Revised Outlook and Implications for DE Markets
Table of Contents Published: 2005/11
Over the past five years, natural gas prices have been extremely volatile and have increased manyfold, reaching record highs in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. ...

Permitting Backup Generators for Demand Response: Navigating Air Quality Issues
Table of Contents Published: 2005/11
This report explores how utilities and aggregators can best navigate the regulatory maze to avoid critical showstoppers and benefit grid operators, consumers of electricity, and owners of backup generators. ...

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