The Virtual Utility

I Introduction.- Editor’s Introduction and Reader’s Guide to this Book.- II Historic and Strategic Perspective: From Monopoly Service to Virtual Utility.- 1 Consensus, Confrontation and Control in the American Electric Utility System: An Interpretative Framework for the Virtual Utility Conference.- 2 The Virtual Utility: Strategic and Managerial Perspectives: Welcoming Address.- 3 Being Virtual: Beyond Restructuring and How We Get There.- III The Virtual Utility: Planning and Strategic Investment Analysis.- 4 The Virtual Utility: Some Introductory Thoughts on Accounting, Learning and the Valuation of Radical Innovation.- 5 Justifying Capital Investments in the Emerging Electric Utility: Accounting for an Uncertain and Changing Industry Structure.- Discussion.- IV Risk Management, Options and Contracting for a Virtual Utility.- 6 Integrating Financial and Physical Contracting in Electric Power Markets.- 7 Capacity Prices in a Competitive Power Market.- 8 Managing Risk Using Renewable Energy Technologies.- Discussion.- V Industrial Organization, Technological Change and Strategic Response to Deregulation.- 9 Monopoly and Antitrust Policies in Network-Based Markets such as Electricity.- 10 Services in an Unbundled and Open Electric Services Marketplace.- 11 Technological Change and the Electric Power Industry: Insights from Telecommunications.- Discussion.- VI Network Architecture and Standardization.- 12 Interconnected System Operations and Expansion Planning in a Changing Industry: Coordination vs. Competition.- 13 Rules of the Road and Electric Traffic Controllers: Making a Virtual Utility Feasible.- Discussion—The Walrus and the Carpenter: Two Views on Network Services for Virtual Utilities.- VII From Monopoly Service to Virtual Utility.- 14 The Future Structureof the North American Utility Industry.- VIII Perspectives.- 15 The Bottom Line: A Summary and Analysis of the Virtual Utility Conference.- 16 The Virtual Utility And Environmental Stewardship.