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• Emergency Preparedness Is Key To Maintaining Community Continuity

  

  Daniel O'Neill, President and Managing Consultant, O'Neill Management Consulting, LLC

  07.10.08 - Local newspapers all over America are running headlines these days that cite their power companies' performance in emergencies.
  

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• Zero Emissions Pricing?

  

  Bill Roth, Managing Partner, Northern California Community Technologies (NCCT)

  06.26.08 - Are we pricing electricity correctly? In the 1980's while working within a utility open to testing innovative ideas, the answer to that question was "no."
  

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• With Minimal History or Precedent, Public Utility Property Tax Appeals are Ripe for Success

  

  Jerry Grad, President and CEO, International Property Tax Institute
  Mordechai Katzman, President, Rethink Solutions, Inc

  06.13.08 - All businesses across all industry types, developing or mature, look for that elusive competitive advantage over their rivals. There are many approaches company executives take in the search for that advantage.
  

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• NERC CIP is a Cyber Security Step in the Right Direction, But Utilities Need to Keep Walking Further Up That Road

  

  Neal Westermeyer, Chief Operating Officer, Aegis Technologies Inc.

  05.22.08 - Over 50 years ago, the Ford Motor Company built a good part of its sales and marketing efforts around the "Lifeguard" design that enhanced the safety of its passenger cars.
  

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• Corporate CIO Staffs Are Confused About Interoperability, And They Are Not Alone!

  

  Rik Drummond, CEO and Chief Scientist, Drummond Group Inc.

  05.08.08 - The software purchasing community requires interoperable products in their networks, value and supply chains that install easily to begin intercommunicating with other like products in a straight forward manner. This frequently is not the case even with products that call themselves interoperable, and this may costs the organization hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional IT expense.
  

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• Documentation and Training - The Next Edge in Business Resiliency

  

  Peter Curtis, President, Power Management Concepts, LLC

  04.24.08 - Spending millions of dollars on business resiliency and reliability is a good start, especially when you know your organization can lose a massive amount of money if downtime occurred precisely at the right processing moment. Reliability and facility infrastructure health is not guaranteed simply by investing in and installing new equipment.
  

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• A Pragmatic Approach to Successful EAM Implementation in the Energy and Utilities Industry

  

  Michael Blalock, Director of Business Development, Utilities, IFS North America

  04.10.08 - In the face of decreased capital spending and lower profits, it is not surprising that energy and utility managers are looking to technology and automation, including enterprise asset management (EAM) applications, for their salvation. Unfortunately, the business applications chosen are only tools, and do not guarantee success.
  

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• Does a Service-Oriented Architecture Make Sense for Energy Trading and Risk Management?

  

  Louis Caron, Principal, RiskAdvisory
  Dominic Pazzula, Lead Consultant, Talon Risk, Inc.

  03.27.08 - Service-Oriented Architecture, or SOA, is one of the hottest buzz-words in IT. But what is an SOA and why is it important to companies needing energy risk management solutions?
  

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• Addressing GHG can Facilitate Siting Coal-Fired Power Plants

  

  Richard Goodwin, Environmental Engineering Consultant

  03.13.08 - During the last several months, thousands of megawatts of new coal-fired power plants have been delayed or cancelled (e.g. Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, and Idaho). An often-cited, recent Kansas decision denied an air permit to Sunflower Electric Power due to the absence of CO2 removal.
  

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• NERC / CIP Cyber Security: Leveraging Existing Controls to Secure the Enterprise

  Kevin McDonald, Senior NERC Cyber Security Analyst, ICF International

  02.28.08 - On January 17, 2008, FERC approved the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Cyber Security Standards. In a 200+-page ruling, FERC outlined the comments and responses to several key areas in the CIP standards.
  

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