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EnerVision is a business, technical analysis, marketing and management
consulting organization designed to serve electric cooperatives and
public utility markets. We are innovative, independent and offer a
full range of business-related services. These services include power
supply and transmission planning, technical services, market research,
rate design, and management consulting.
EnerVision is an employee-owned consulting
business formed in October of 1998. We work with utility clients of
all sizes and in all markets to improve customer relationships, load
factors, revenues and business operations. Our client base includes
more than 125 public power utilities and affiliate organizations in
over 25 states across the
U.S.
Fresh ideas, the ability to get things done
and a thorough understanding of public power principles, advantages,
and ideals are our strengths. Our experience means that clients can
expect results, quality, and cost-effective performance, without
having to educate us about the public power ways of doing business.
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What Can We Do About Our Cost of Power? |
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 With
the soaring cost of fuel recently, many of our clients are asking
us "what can we do about our cost of power?" While a particularly
timely question, it is actually a good question to ask anytime
considering the sheer magnitude of the costs involved -
approximately 60-70% of your members' bills can be directly
related to the cost of power.
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A Disaster Waiting to Happen? |
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 No
amount of planning can prevent some disasters from happening, but
as has become all too apparent recently, how you respond to a
disaster makes all the difference in the world. We need only look
at the government's (local, state, and national) responses to
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to see that there can be long term
repercussions from actions taken in the first few hours following
a disaster. In hindsight, many "common sense" steps that
could/should have been taken were unfortunately not - largely
because of a lack of proper planning.
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Employee Surveys - Invaluable Feedback from Your Most Valuable
Assets |
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 Electric
cooperatives routinely conduct member surveys to gain feedback
about the quality of service they are receiving. These surveys
provide crucial input for strategic planning, new products and
service offerings, as well as gaining knowledge of issues that are
important to the member/owners. While member surveys provide
cooperatives with valuable insight into improving the quality of
service for their customers, there is another key group of people
who can provide significant feedback for improving service -
cooperative employees.
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Implications of Energy Policy Act of 2005 |
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No
need to break out the leisure suits and disco balls yet, but many
provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 will seem like a
return to the 1970's for electric utilities - particularly those
areas of the Act which directly impact distribution cooperatives.
Yes, there are incentives for innovative technologies,
particularly those related to generation, that result in cleaner
air or are simply new and improved compared to current technology.
Coal gasification, fuel cells, renewables and nuclear energy all
get a boost from incentives. Sections with significant impact on
cooperatives, though, are in the Titles covering electricity and
energy efficiency.
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October 2005
