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Enhancing Revenue Protection with AMI
January 1, 2009
With the right combination of hardware, software, and human intelligence, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) systems can improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of utility revenue-protection departments.
Content type: Best Practice | Document ID: IGS-BP-1 | Author: Dan Greenberg
An Investor's Guide to Renewable Power Technologies, Markets, and Policies
November 1, 2004
In this assessment of U.S. renewable power markets, technologies, and policies, we find that wind energy is the renewable power technology with the most favorable near-term investment outlook. We believe that investment opportunities also exist for geothermal energy, hydropower, and landfill gas generation ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: RPS-6 | Author: Brandon Owens, Adam Capage, Jack Ihle
U.S. Wind Prospects Wall Map
June 1, 2004
We've leveraged our extraordinary mapping capabilities, pushing the envelope of GIS analysis to offer you an invaluable perspective on current and future U.S. wind power development. starting with this U.S. wind power class map, we have eliminated areas that are unsuitable for development, such as ...
Content type: Research | Document ID: RPS-MAP04
Financing Wind
March 1, 2004
With an annual growth rate of 25 percent over the past three years, wind energy is the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. power market. Given the recent emergence of wind power in the U.S., it is more important than ever for market participants to become knowledgeable about the dynamics of wind project ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: RPS-4 | Author: Brandon Owens
Coal-Wind Integration: Strange Bedfellows May Provide a New Supply Option
December 1, 2003
Reductions in the cost of wind power and improvements in the operating characteristics of coal-fired generators have opened the door to the possibility of co-locating baseload coal-fired generators with intermittent wind turbines. For these projects, the coal plants would be dispatched so as to guarantee ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: RPS-3 | Author: Jack Ihle
Renewable Power Map
July 1, 2003
If a picture is worth a thousand words, this map is worth a million. Updated each year, this wall map displays existing and planned renewable energy generation across the U.S. by generation size and type. It also highlights key transmission constraints, indicates regions that offer the best renewable ...
Content type: Research | Document ID: RPS-MAP03
Power Price Stability: What's It Worth? The Value of Renewables as a Physical Hedge Against Natural Gas Price Movements
March 1, 2003
Renewable energy technologies, which do not require fossil fuel to generate electricity, promote power price stability by avoiding the risks associated with underlying natural gas price escalation, volatility, and delivery. In this report, we estimate the value of this physical hedge by quantifying costs ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: RPS-1 | Author: Brandon Owens
The Skinny on Distribution Automation
March 1, 2002
Although distribution automation offers many advantages and has recently seen improvements in functions and communication abilities, opinions differ on whether distribution automation provides the return on investment necessary to pursue it. E source looks at a number of successful distribution automation ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: SDM-5 | Author: Lew Rubin
Strategies for Aging Distribution Infrastructure
November 1, 2001
Aging electric distribution infrastructure presents managerial, budgetary, and performance challenges that could potentially strain the most cost-efficient utility. Many traditional planning, operating, and managerial prioritization methods still in use today by electric utilities are incompatible with ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: SDM-4 | Author: Ron Davis, Kristen Bertolone
Lessons in Remedial Reliability: ComEd and the Outages of the Summer of 1999
April 1, 2001
In this report, we examine the power outages in Chicago that made national news during the summer of 1999. Although the consumer and regulatory responses to these outages were extreme, the experience of Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) marks an important case study of the priority that a distribution company ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: SDM-2 | Author: Ron Davis, Carolyn Dunmire
Buying and Selling Infrastructure Services
November 1, 2000
Successful businesses formulate strategies around core competencies, investing in activities where they have a competitive advantage and outsourcing functions where they do not. This report examines how electric distribution companies are making strategic business decisions based on their self-assessed ...
Content type: Research, Service Report | Document ID: SDM-1 | Author: Ron Davis
Power Quality: Serving the Industrial and Hospital Sectors. How to Quantify, Package, Price, and Deliver PQ Solutions
October 1, 2000
E Source undertook a market research study with midsize industrial customers in six market sectors (printing and publishing, food processing, plastic or metal fabrication, fabric manufacturing or assembly, high-tech manufacturing, and hospital) to determine whether customers are interested in power quality ...
Content type: Market Study | Document ID: MCS-MPOW | Author: Charlotte Otero-Goodwin
