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The ScottMadden Energy Industry Update – Early Fall 2013ScottMadden, Inc.
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We are pleased to announce our Summer 2014 issue of the ScottMadden Energy Industry Update. This semi-annual publication offers our view of major events and emerging trends in the energy industry.
The energy and utility industries continue to anticipate and react to potential fundamental shifts in the 100+ year-old model of investment, regulation, and earnings. Policy and regulatory changes are big factors driving the design of the new landscape. For many of these changes, significant investment in existing and new infrastructure is needed across all parts of the energy value chain. And by the way, load growth is no longer, so investment and cost recovery are uncertain. Themed “I Feel the Earth Move under My Feet,” this issue surveys a broad array of strategic issues.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
With potentially costly environmental upgrades on the horizon and the need to increase capacity over the long term, capital needs for cooperatives are growing rapidly. At the same time, traditional sources of funding are being constrained. As cooperatives increasingly turn to the markets, how can they ensure their members continue to benefit from low capital cost?
This ScottMadden insight is the second in a series on “Five Strategic Priorities for Generation and Transmission Cooperatives.” The report summary can be found here: http://www.scottmadden.com/insight/516/five-strategic-priorities-for-generation-and-transmission-cooperatives.html.
To learn more, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
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The global renewable energy market has grown rapidly over the past few years. Driven by improving sector dynamics, renewable energy witnessing emergence of newer investment options in the capital markets segment.
The ScottMadden Energy Industry Update – Early Fall 2013ScottMadden, Inc.
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We are pleased to announce our Summer 2014 issue of the ScottMadden Energy Industry Update. This semi-annual publication offers our view of major events and emerging trends in the energy industry.
The energy and utility industries continue to anticipate and react to potential fundamental shifts in the 100+ year-old model of investment, regulation, and earnings. Policy and regulatory changes are big factors driving the design of the new landscape. For many of these changes, significant investment in existing and new infrastructure is needed across all parts of the energy value chain. And by the way, load growth is no longer, so investment and cost recovery are uncertain. Themed “I Feel the Earth Move under My Feet,” this issue surveys a broad array of strategic issues.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
With potentially costly environmental upgrades on the horizon and the need to increase capacity over the long term, capital needs for cooperatives are growing rapidly. At the same time, traditional sources of funding are being constrained. As cooperatives increasingly turn to the markets, how can they ensure their members continue to benefit from low capital cost?
This ScottMadden insight is the second in a series on “Five Strategic Priorities for Generation and Transmission Cooperatives.” The report summary can be found here: http://www.scottmadden.com/insight/516/five-strategic-priorities-for-generation-and-transmission-cooperatives.html.
To learn more, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
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A nation’s transition from one technological path to another is the underlying feature to understanding the transformation to an innovation-led system. The process of change and factors that favour the adoption of certain types of technologies over others enables to examine the role of different innovation mechanisms and actors that drive an economic and industrial transformation.
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The ScottMadden Energy Industry Update – Winter 2015ScottMadden, Inc.
We are pleased to announce our Winter 2015 issue of THE SCOTTMADDEN ENERGY INDUSTRY UPDATE. This semi-annual publication features our view of recent significant events and emerging trends in the energy industry.
With apologies to David Bowie, we enter 2015 to turn and face the strange and the opportunity of changes. As market changes, regulatory processes, and technology evolution unfold, energy and utility companies will face them and adapt.
We hope you will find THE SCOTTMADDEN ENERGY INDUSTRY UPDATE to be a useful and informative resource. If you would like to discuss our observations in greater detail or have us present them or our views on other industry or management issues to your executive team, please visit www.scottmadden.com or contact us at info@scottmadden.com.
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Utility planning is changing with the rapid growth of distributed solar in certain markets. Over the long term, market fundamentals favor the continued growth of distributed solar energy. This will access business and operational challenges for utilities. This insight outlines strategies utilities can deploy to successfully incorporate distributed solar energy into their business model or generation portfolio.
This semi-annual publication features our view of recent significant events and emerging trends in the energy industry. Themed “Managing with Uncertainty Fatigue,” this issue highlights the continuous challenges faced by the energy companies. Despite political and regulatory uncertainty in this election year, companies are running out of time in crafting adaptive strategies and are making substantial investment (and disinvestment) decisions despite this uncertainty.
Etude PwC/Strategy& sur les fusions-acquisitions dans le secteur de l'énergie...PwC France
http://bit.ly/TransactionsEnergie2015
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Notre analyse se fonde sur les transactions publiées dans la base de données « M&A Global » de Dealogic et portant sur l’ensemble des fusions-acquisitions dans les domaines de l’électricité, du gaz et des énergies renouvelables. Cette base de données englobe les transactions annoncées (celles en attente de clôture financière et juridique) et les opérations terminées. La valeur inscrite est celle de la contrepartie annoncée a priori ou posteriori et tient compte des éventuelles dettes ou autres passifs estimés. Les données de comparaison (années ou trimestres précédents) peuvent présenter des différences avec celles de nos précédentes éditions ou autres publications de l’année en cours en cas de mise à jour des informations ou d’affinements de la méthodologie ayant entraîné des modifications de la base de données.
This semi-annual publication features our view of recent significant events and emerging trends in the energy industry. Themed “Unprecedented Uncertainty, Extraordinary Investment,” this issue highlights the continuous challenges faced by the energy and utilities industries as world economic growth remains slow coming out of the current recession. Despite reduced energy demand, aging plants, shifting demand patterns, continued growth of renewable resources, and costly environmental regulations are driving substantial investment needs.
Misplaced expectations from climate disclosure initiativesNadia Ameli
The financial sector’s response to pressures around climate change has emphasized the role of disclosure, notably through the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. This Perspective examines two dimensions of the expectations behind transparency and disclosure initiatives: the belief that disinvestment is driven by disclosure; and that investment ‘switches’ from high- to low-carbon assets. We warn about the risk of disappointment from inflated expectations about what transparency can really deliver and suggest some areas that research and public policy should examine to mobilize the required capital to meet climate goals.
Investors can use this guide to: Decide whether energy productivity is a material issue for any portfolio companies; Prioritise and shortlist sectors or companies for engagement on energy issues; Access supporting information (including industry
examples) for engagement or discussions with companies; Support improved financial returns for portfolio companies through pursuing opportunities for their energy productivity improvement
The management of generation assets, never easy, is even more challenging in today’s environment of uncertain commodity prices, aging infrastructure, environmental mandates, and uncertainty in regulatory and capital markets. Cooperatives must respond by effectively planning their portfolios and getting the most out of the assets they have.
This ScottMadden insight is the first in a series on “Five Strategic Priorities for Generation and Transmission Cooperatives.” The report summary can be found here: http://www.scottmadden.com/insight/516/five-strategic-priorities-for-generation-and-transmission-cooperatives.html.
To learn more, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
The ScottMadden Energy Industry Update, the twice-per-year report issued by energy consulting firm ScottMadden. This particular edition takes a close look at the natural gas industry--in particular how ever-increasing gas resources can find adequate infrastructure to make their way to market.
Five Strategic Priorities: Generation and Transmission CooperativesScottMadden, Inc.
Generation and Transmission cooperatives face a rapidly changing business outlook with complex and high-stakes challenges on many fronts. We believe these organizations must address five key strategic priorities to confront the future with confidence including: managing generation assets, ensuring grid security and reliability, gaining access to capital markets, improving the effectiveness of stakeholder management, and fostering economic development.
This insight provides a summary for a five-part series that ScottMadden published. The full series can be found here: http://www.scottmadden.com/insight/516/five-strategic-priorities-for-generation-and-transmission-cooperatives.html.
To learn more, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
Creating IT Value-A Better Way to Make IT Investment DecisionsScottMadden, Inc.
All IT organizations are resource constrained—demand exceeds supply. Organizations need criteria to decide which projects warrant allocation of high-value constrained resources. This is the second in a series on maximizing IT investment value.
Given the myriad challenges faced by the industry today, natural gas local distribution companies can benefit from assessing business performance through benchmarking to help identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities. ScottMadden has a low-cost approach to providing this information to its clients, as described in our Natural Gas Benchmarking document. The objective of this review is to provide high-level financial and operating comparisons that will help company management identify potential opportunities for improvement.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
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