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E-raamat: Visions for a Sustainable Energy Future [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

(Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, US)
  • Formaat: 266 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jan-2008
  • Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • ISBN-13: 9781003151289
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  • Formaat: 266 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jan-2008
  • Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • ISBN-13: 9781003151289
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.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Megatrends and the Energy Horizon
1(18)
Market trends vs. Megatrends
1(3)
Current Crossroads: The Electric Sector Today
4(2)
Energy Business Capital Expenditures As a Percent of Revenue
6(5)
Inherent Conflicts in the Electricity Sector
11(3)
Relieving the Conflict
14(5)
Incenting Innovation: A Competitive Regulatory Framework
19(22)
The Regulatory Dilemma
20(4)
Electricity Company Responses to Deregulation: Invest in the New
24(9)
Finding the Right (and Profitable) Customer Compact
33(2)
Turning a Megatrend into Business Opportunity
35(3)
Competitive Regulation: The Infrastructure Investment Model
38(3)
The Destiny of Energy Business Evolution
41(30)
Developing a Stable Business Model
44(12)
The Art of Business Reinvention: A Classic and Stable Business Model
56(6)
The Unique Attributes of the Electricity Industry
62(4)
Succeeding with the Destiny of Business Evolution
66(5)
The Destiny of Demographics
71(38)
The Aging Workforce---A Gap of Knowledge
74(17)
Growing Population Shifts---A Booming Retirement Issue
91(4)
Increased Consumer Demand---A Boomer Phenomenon
95(8)
Succeeding with the Destiny of Demographics
103(6)
The Destiny of Carbon Constraints and Capacity Demands
109(60)
Supply-side Issues and the Carbon Conflict
113(7)
Fueling the Future: Facing the Conflict
120(41)
Incentives to Help Replace Conflict and Costly Compliance
161(8)
Succeeding with the Megatrend of Conflict
The Destiny of Intelligent Infrastructure
169(32)
Our National Power Grid... Now
172(8)
The Vision---Enhanced Power Flow with Digital Control
180(15)
Succeeding with the Megatrend of Connectivity
195(6)
The Destiny of Customer Engagement
201(22)
It's Your Father's Energy Interface
203(3)
The Intelligent Energy Portal
206(9)
The Art of Energy Efficiency and Smart Control
215(3)
Succeeding with the Megatrend of Choice
218(5)
The Destination: A Transformed Electricity Sector
223(22)
A Vision for the Industry's Future
228(5)
Transformative Paths in Telecommunications
233(3)
Getting There from Here
236(1)
A Healthy Balance
236(1)
Repair, Replace, Rebuild vs. Investing in Innovation
237(3)
Building a Model for the Future
240(5)
Conclusion 245(1)
Ten Ideas for the Future 245(4)
Index 249


Dr Mark A Gabriel, PhD,