Commentary
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Jun 01, 2010 |According to Hughes Belin (2010), "Tout Brussels" gathered on Tuesday (April 13) for the presentation of 'Roadmap 2050', by which he meant the flamboyant occasion on which the European Climate Foundation (ECF) -- a so-called think tank -- unveiled still another green fantasy about how Europe could be decarbonised for little more than lunch money.
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May 27, 2010 |
"Companies that take the lead on sustainability will be market makers rather than market takers." Those are not the words of an environmental guru, but the words of the World Economic Forum's Consumer Industries community, which features consumer giants like Nestlé, Kraft and Unilever. -
May 19, 2010 |
The need for Straight through Processing (STP) in Energy trading systems is inevitable for improving the efficiency of the business organization. Non STP systems are plagued with many problems like multiple entries, difficulty in tracking defects, more cost spent on infrastructure issue, etc. In a STP trading system, risk factors like credit, market, regulatory and operational are managed better so that the system has less manual interference and becomes more effective. There have been quite a few disasters in trading firms due to lack of control on processes, regulation and compliance. -
May 19, 2010 |
In early April, a small group of academics and consumer advocates assembled in Newark to discuss some of the issues surrounding dynamic pricing. One of the attendees, Brattle Group's Dr. Ahmad Faruqui, presented a paper titled, "The Ethics of Dynamic Pricing". Dr. Faruqui subsequently circulated his paper, which is how I learned about the meeting and his topic. -
May 13, 2010 |Until about 2008 it was the oil optimists who gave most of the parties -- or at least supplied the music. It is highly significant -- and enjoyable -- that we only encounter a few of those people at the present time, although it continues to be annoying when we suddenly find ourselves confronted with humourless pundits who reject mainstream economics, geology, and statistics, and denounce the oil market realism that is occasionally showcased by our sterling media.
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Apr 20, 2010 |
Consumers were previously treated in a homogeneous, today with the introduction of new technologies each consumer will have different features. For the success of Utilities in developing this new scenario, they must have the ability to understand the different distribution topologies and further understand the consumption profile of each class of consumer. -
Apr 06, 2010 |I never contemplate the 'details' of energy wars, and that means the kind predicted for the future by Len Gould, as well as the one that Alan Greenspan -- the former director of the United States central bank (or Federal Reserve System) -- believes began in 2003, and to a limited extent is still taking place.
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Apr 01, 2010 |
What is the dream of Utilities with the development and deployment of Smart Grid, if the utilities could direct the policies of the planning area of Smart Grid, we'll see that the area associated HAN and the Consumers would be placed in the background?
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Mar 31, 2010 |
Solar energy is an enormous resource that is readily available in all countries throughout the world, and all the space above the earth. Long ago scientists calculated that an hour's worth of sunlight bathing the planet held far more energy than humans worldwide could consume in a year. I firmly believe that India should accelerate the use of all forms of Renewable Energy (photovoltaic, thermal solar, solar lamps, solar pumps, wind power, biomass, biogas, and hydro), and more proactively promote Energy Efficiency. However, in this article, I will only focus on the use of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology to meet India's future energy needs.< -
Mar 25, 2010 |
The credit crisis that has dominated the international agenda for the last year has been largely driven by systemic shocks to global financial markets, yet one of the biggest shocks to individual financial institutions came from within: the boards and senior management of many companies had failed to understand adequately their portfolio risk exposure and associated capital requirements. Across the financial industry, overreliance on quantitative measures to capture the risk associated with increasingly complex portfolios led to complacency over the source and size of underlying exposures.
