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INTRODUCTION Many non-residential customers of electric utilities may be eligible to have their periodic utility bill amount computed in two or more different ways depending on their energy usage and its pattern. The customer's usage category is usually determined by the recent history of peak power demand and total energy ......

Today's natural gas market demands that gas utilities collect high frequency reads. hourly or daily, in order to maintain a competitive edge in at deregulated market. NERTEC's AMR system offers gas utilities straightforward solutions that go well beyond meter reading. A NERTEC AMR system can simplify existing processes by eliminating ......

In today's natural gas market, interval data collection is becoming more important. No longer are weekly or monthly reads enough. Gas utilities must be in a position to collect higher frequency reads, hourly or daily, in order to maintain a competitive edge in a deregulated market. NERTEC offers gas utilities ......

HEADNOTE U.S. utilities have a lot to learn about avoiding power outages. They can benefit from the experience of foreign utilities, other U.S. industries, and even their own nuclear power plants. The United States ranks toward the bottom among developed nations in terms of the reliability of its electricity service....

The North American electric system is one of the great engineering achievements of the past century. Today, more than 3,000 electric utilities deliver almost 4 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity over 160,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines to more than 280 million customers nationwide. Ensuring that the system delivers a reliable ......

HEADNOTE Abstract Energy markets are deregulating rapidly, and the price of energy is expected to decrease. Energy suppliers that traditionally operated as regulated monopolies must now find ways to improve their productivity. Energy utilities are typically asset-intensive, so maintenance activities present a potential area for productivity improvement. Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) ......

Between 1989 and 1999, U.S. electric utilities spent $14.7 billion on demand-side management (DSM) programs aimed at encouraging their customers to make investments in energy efficiency. This study relies on panel data on 324 utilities spanning 11 years to estimate the effect of DSM expenditures on retail electricity sales. Our ......