The Virtual Utility
Accounting, Technology & Competitive Aspects of the Emerging Industry
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Author
Contributions
- Preston, Alistair - Contributor
Publication
1997 - Springer US, Boston, MA, United States
Language
English
Word Count
102,250 words, Guess
Page Count
409 pages
Physical Format
Electronic resource
Identifiers
- Internet Archivevirtualutilityac00awer
- ISBN-101461378273
- ISBN-101461561671
- ISBN-139781461378273
- ISBN-139781461561675
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number851741542
- Better World Books9781461378273
- Better World Books9781461561675
- Open LibraryOL27094602M
Classifications
- DDC338.6
- LCCHD28-70
- LCCHD2321-4730.9
and 1 more
- LCCHD28-70HD2321-4730.9
Description
The virtual utility (VU) is a flexible collaboration of independent, market-driven entities that provide efficient energy service demanded by consumers without necessarily owning the corresponding assets. The VU becomes a metaphor for lean, flexible electricity production/delivery and flexible, customer-oriented energy service provision. Experience in manufacturing suggests that traditional engineering and accounting-based approaches to valuing radical innovations such as the VU are limited in that they fail to consider the full spectrum of benefits that new technologies may yield when fully exploited in a new production process. The purpose of this book is to identify new areas of research by presenting new academic and practitioner research intended to further our understanding of the strategic, technologically-driven issues confronting the electricity production/distribution process.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy Series -- 26
- Topics in regulatory economics and policy -- 26.
Other Editions
- The Virtual Utility: Accounting, Technology & Competitive Aspects of the Emerging Industry
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