Branko Terzic, U.S. and Global Regulatory Policy leader, Energy & Resources, Deloitte Services LP, authors a biweekly front-page column called "Terzic on Strategy" in the New Power Executive. This electronic newsletter is distributed to nearly 20,000 industry participants. The below "Terzic on Strategy" articles were published in 2007:
Coal, Nuclear or Gas | November 30, 2007
Terzic discusses the difficulty in evaluating reports of a recent sale of the Serbian National Oil & Gas company to Russia’s Gazprom.
Efficiency Via Decoupling | November 9, 2007
Terzic discusses that the creation of shareholder value is management’s primary mission and reviews an earlier eight-step program for value creation.
It's About Value | October 26, 2007
Terzic mentions that decoupling is proposed as a mechanism to remove disincentives and provide incentive, for regulated electric and gas utilities to promote energy efficiency and conservation.
A Tribute to Bonbright | October 12, 2007
Terzic discusses Professor C. Bonbright’s classic text “Principles of Public Utility Rate,” first published in 1961, and reflects on the text‘s enduring value.
Nega-Watts Revisited | September 14, 2007
Terzic discusses recent variations on a proposal made some years ago that utility investment in efficiency and conservation be granted similar rate-making treatment as investment in a new energy supply.
Timing Is Everything | September 14, 2007
Terzic reviews the last three decades' factors causing changes in electric power prices and revisits his 1986 proposal to treat utility investments in conservation and efficiency in a similar manner as that regulators give to a new energy supply.
Public Concern, Utility Regulation | August 31, 2007
Terzic takes on the issue of whether regulated public utilities have an incentive to defer maintenance and neglect service quality. Reflecting on a hundred years of regulation, Terzic finds that regulation can ensure adequate and reliable service at reasonable rates.
Capital's Cinderella | August 10, 2007
Terzic discusses the role of depreciation as an element of the revenue requirement of a regulated public utility.
European Crosscurrents | July 13, 2007
Terzic discusses lessons the new world can learn from the old world when it comes to energy policy in electricity and natural gas.
Morality and Energy | June 29, 2007
Read the viewpoint that energy efficiency is a moral obligation and that expenditure on energy efficiency today will offer immediate economic benefits.
Sustainability and Energy Service Companies | June 8, 2007
Is the timing right for U.S.corporate investment in energy efficiency technologies and demand-reduction measures to accelerate?
Clean Coal Support | May 25, 2007
Terzic discusses the 2007 Deloitte Survey of Consumer Opinion on Alternative and Renewable Energy released during the 2007 Deloitte Energy Conference held in Washington, D.C.
Energy for Life | May 11, 2007
Terzic discusses how the demand for energy is increasing worldwide, with increased pressure on societies to improve their health, education and welfare systems.
Climate Change Component | April 13, 2007
Terzic discusses the likelihood that climate change legislation could pass this 110th session of Congress, if Representative John Dingell’s reported comment is indicative of congressional sentiment.
Carbon Transport | March 30, 2007
Terzic discusses a recent MIT study called "The Future of Coal," which forecasts a bleak future for coal without the development of viable carbon capture and sequestration advances on the scale necessary to meet coal-fueled power plant requirements.
Risk and Return | March 16, 2007
Terzic explores whether the nation’s public utilities, along with electric and natural gas infrastructure owners, will be able to build the new facilities needed to meet the expected doubling in energy demand during the next quarter century.
Winter Reprieve | February 27, 2007
Terzic observes that a review of public opinion polls in 2005 and 2004 finds energy prices a progressively lower priority as time goes on. He discusses how this might affect public utilties.
Helping Consumers Cope | January 31, 2007
Terzic discusses issues that the public should know about the energy industry.
Casino Royale | January 12, 2007
Terzic ponders how a "reasonable rate of return" ties in to the utility strategy of "back to basics." He addresses how regulators can establish a regulated utility structure with cost of service, with a reasonable rate of return.
