The Virtual Utility Accounting, Technology & Competitive Aspects of the Emerging Industry
In the winter of 1996, after 4 years of planning and research, the Symposium on the Virtual Utility was held in Saratoga Springs, New York. It was sponsored by Niag ara Mohawk Power Corporation, Co-sponsored by CSC Index and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and hosted by...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1997, 1997
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1997 |
| Series: | Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 16 The Virtual Utility And Environmental Stewardship
- I Introduction
- Editor’s Introduction and Reader’s Guide to this Book
- II Historic and Strategic Perspective: From Monopoly Service to Virtual Utility
- 1 Consensus, Confrontation and Control in the American Electric Utility System: An Interpretative Framework for the Virtual Utility Conference
- 2 The Virtual Utility: Strategic and Managerial Perspectives: Welcoming Address
- 3 Being Virtual: Beyond Restructuring and How We Get There
- III The Virtual Utility: Planning and Strategic Investment Analysis
- 4 The Virtual Utility: Some Introductory Thoughts on Accounting, Learning and the Valuation of Radical Innovation
- 5 Justifying Capital Investments in the Emerging Electric Utility: Accounting for an Uncertain and Changing Industry Structure
- Discussion
- IV Risk Management, Options and Contracting for a Virtual Utility
- 6 Integrating Financial and Physical Contracting in Electric Power Markets
- 7 Capacity Prices in a Competitive Power Market
- 8 Managing Risk Using Renewable Energy Technologies
- Discussion
- V Industrial Organization, Technological Change and Strategic Response to Deregulation
- 9 Monopoly and Antitrust Policies in Network-Based Markets such as Electricity
- 10 Services in an Unbundled and Open Electric Services Marketplace
- 11 Technological Change and the Electric Power Industry: Insights from Telecommunications
- Discussion
- VI Network Architecture and Standardization
- 12 Interconnected System Operations and Expansion Planning in a Changing Industry: Coordination vs. Competition
- 13 Rules of the Road and Electric Traffic Controllers: Making a Virtual Utility Feasible
- Discussion—The Walrus and the Carpenter: Two Views on Network Services for Virtual Utilities
- VII From Monopoly Service to Virtual Utility
- 14 The Future Structureof the North American Utility Industry
- VIII Perspectives
- 15 The Bottom Line: A Summary and Analysis of the Virtual Utility Conference