Friends, colleagues, and co-workers uniformly called him "The Boss." His life was a story of failure after failure. His greatest fame was his greatest failure—a journey begun nearly 100 years…
Power
Monthly Issue | January 1, 2012
Keeping up with what's going on in the field of human resource management-once upon a time, we called it "personnel management," but I guess that sounds too impersonal these days-is…
As the resource gets increased and more sophisticated scrutiny, natural gas from shale looks increasingly like a revolutionary force in energy markets. Most recently, the Washington-based environmental and energy think…
Philip LeGoy, senior consultant of power plant design for Ireland's Electricity Supply Board, says his country is regularly obtaining 25% of its electricity from wind. "If I've got 1,000 megawatts…
Gas turbines are expensive. Although peaking units aren't as costly as baseload units, letting them sit idle is still a waste. Yet that is what peaking units spend nearly all…
As demonstrated by last fall's unexpected snowfall in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, and the ensuing lengthy outages and public outrage, crisis communications is a hot topic for power…
The phrase "workplace drama" gets various responses: I work with an office full of women, and they have catfights. You should see my boss. He's impossible. My daughter is a…
While taxpayer support has often led to critical innovations (like the Internet), obviously not every investment pans out, such as the $525 million pumped into Solyndra, which went bankrupt in…
Utility organizations are struggling to find a way to more effectively and efficiently communicate with their customers about basic information, including their amount due, ways to lower energy usage, and…
Despite the uncertainty about utility cyber security regulations, there are steps that electric utilities, owners and operators of generation and transmission facilities, and industrials with on-site generation can take now…