Ensure Your SSO Is Ready for the Next Integration
How do you strategize for post-merger integration before it happens? How do you ensure that you are able to accelerate the integration planning process?
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How do you strategize for post-merger integration before it happens? How do you ensure that you are able to accelerate the integration planning process?
ScottMadden joined industry leaders as a sponsor and presenter at Infocast’s 19th Annual Transmission Summit. Here, a partner at ScottMadden, reviewed the generation landscape and the impacts of the Clean Power Plan.
ScottMadden partnered with a multifunction shared service organization (SSO) in the entertainment industry to assess its security practices. The SSO had a typical design, where confidential data (e.g., salary, social security number, personal address) moved through many systems and was subjected to multiple touch points and delivery options. A security control framework, based on ISO 27001, had been implemented by the enterprise; however, policies and related security controls were incomplete. As with many SSOs, data security often came secondary to gains in operational efficiency and customer service, which were more visible to the business.
Plant recoveries are large initiatives that require extensive time, knowledge, skill, and coordination to improve not only plant operations, but also plant culture and the effectiveness of the personnel. Download the report to get a better understanding of the initial questions you may have as you start to think about your nuclear plant recovery effort.
In this edition of the Nuclear Plant Recovery Series, the second article in the six-part series, we answer some of the initial questions you may have as you start to think about your nuclear plant recovery effort.
Download ReportInvestor-owned utilities in Illinois recently announced their support for sweeping energy legislation to address unprofitable nuclear operations after results from MISO’s April capacity auction saw an approximate 50% YoY decline to $72/MW-day. If the proposed Next Generation Energy Plan (NGEP) fails to be passed before the current legislative session ends on May 31, Exelon plans to retire its Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear plants, which would decrease the state’s carbon-emission-free electricity significantly.
In mid-April, Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) and Ameren Illinois (AI) filed their sixth annual formula rate updates in accordance with the Illinois Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act (EIMA). Since their inception, Illinois’ formula rates have resulted in declining authorized returns on equity (ROEs) for the state’s investor-owned utilities. Yet utility earnings have increased as investments in authorized rate base projects have grown.
In March 2016, Edison International launched a new business providing energy consulting services to large energy users, including commercial buildings, data centers, retail, industrial, health care, and educational institutions. The business—called Edison Energy—will identify, develop, and integrate an array of energy solutions for the largest energy users nationwide.
To coincide with the release of the latest Energy Industry Update, ScottMadden joined forces with Energy Central to present an interactive webinar, “ScottMadden’s Energy Industry Update – Neither Fish nor Fowl.” During this session, our industry experts shared their views and fielded questions related to the energy transitions in Texas and Hawaii and cybersecurity information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT).
In this section, we review developments in wholesale power markets and in selected trends in North American power supply, including nuclear power and decentralized generation.
In December 2015, General Motors (GM) agreed to buy wind power from EDP Renewables to power more than half of a vehicle assembly line in Arlington, Texas.
In this section, we summarize key clean tech developments, such as Clean Power Plan litigation and planning, Congress’ extension of renewables tax incentives, and continued activity in the electric vehicle sector.
In this section, we review energy and utility companies and how they are accommodating larger penetration of renewable resources (including distributed PV) on their systems as well as the ongoing convergence of information technology and operational technology and how that is affecting cybersecurity efforts.
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