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Monthly Issue | November 15, 2012

Clean Air Rules: Unintended Consequences Generator?

It’s hard to come up with a law affecting the electricity business that has more moving parts than the Clean Air Act. What’s worse, like a legislative Rube Goldberg device,…


Whistleblower Heartaches, Headaches and Heads Ups

Dealing with disgruntled employees is a major challenge of management, but dealing with disgruntled employees who have decided to take their complaints outside the organization can be exponentially worse. Simply…


Financing U.S. Renewable Energy Projects in a Post-Subsidy World

The Federal renewable energy production tax credit (PTC) was created when Congress enacted the Energy Policy Act of 1992. The PTC for renewable energy generating projects signaled the birth of…


FERC Proposes Regulatory Regime for Solar Storms

In late October, with a Halloween moon appearing in the night sky, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) adopted a controversial notice of proposed rulemaking on “geomagnetic disturbances,” with comments…


Creating Customer-Friendly Utility Communications

Here’s an example of clear, customer-friendly messaging: It costs $1.36 per year to charge your iPad. Note the simplicity and the customer-centeredness of the message. It doesn’t offer a range,…


A Call to Elevate Electric Sector Cyber Security Leadership

Around the world, it’s hard to miss the constant media and analyst drumbeat of warnings about new threats to critical energy infrastructures. Yet recent reports by Carnegie Mellon University and…


Lessons in Innovation from Sir Edmund Hillary

“Well George, we knocked the bastard off.” These were the first words of Edmund Hillary to his old friend George Low meeting him near the South Col of Mount Everest.…


Workplace Drama: Leadership Is About Course Correction, Not Perfection

Leaders can get off course for a variety of reasons, however one of the main reasons is the inability to set boundaries. To be more specific, the inability to enforce…


The Management Intelligence of the Octopus

A committed omnivore, I took octopus off my personal menu more than 10 years ago. It’s not that the weird, eight-armed critters are endangered; they aren’t. It’s because they are…


Why Swooning SWU Prices Will Continue

Domestic competition is coming to the U.S. market for enriched uranium reactor fuel, with one competitor to what had been the only American firm making separative work units (SWUs) expanding…


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