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Peter Noland

Consulting Partner Artois-Bell
	Member Since: 07/16/04 Author Rating: Silver Article Count: 6 Email this author Phone: (650) 712-0797

Background

Peter Noland is with Artios-Bell. Most recently he was Vice President of Strategy & Alliances for IKUN Energy LLC (IKUN). IKUN is a supplier of natural gas in both the wholesale and retail markets, and is a provider of natural gas and energy data services to Federal, Commercial, Industrial & Utility Customers. IKUN is a wholly owned subsidiary of NANA Development Corporation, a $1.5 Billion Alaska based holding company operating businesses in the information technology, energy, minerals, real estate, construction & hospitality industries.

Previously, Mr. Noland was President of Strategic Energy Process, LLC (SEP), a software development and consulting company focused on developing customized key account solutions and software applications for utilities and energy marketers. Prior to that he was a co-founder and principal of ECS Energy, which provided energy management consulting and energy information services to major commercial and industrial customers.

Mr. Noland graduated from the University of Richmond (Va.) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance.

He can be reached at (650) 712-0797 or at peternoland@gmail.com

Articles

7.29.10	Demand Response - Quantifying the Impact on the Customer Topic: Demand Response Article Viewed 1146 Times; 10 comments Demand Response (DR) is already a clear cut winner in category of "killer apps" in the evolving Smart Grid. A key area of opportunity moving forward, and which may help provide a more comprehensive valuation of DR programs, may thus be to give deeper consideration as to DR's impact upon the utility's relationship with its customers.

12.10.09	Buying Energy Commodity - It's as Simple as Usage and Price Topic: Billing & Customer Care Article Viewed 3477 Times; 3 comments All buying and selling of an energy commodity (natural gas and electricity) by both end-user customers and their energy suppliers, involves a simultaneous look and interpretation of only two variables: energy usage and energy price. While conceptually simple, in reality marrying accurate energy usage and price information is extraordinarily difficult, first and foremost because the added dimension of time must be considered as both variables are in a constant state of change.

5.2.05	Advanced Metering - A perspective on opportunities for Utility customer service Topic: Metering Article Viewed 4685 Times; Comment on this article There appears to be a general industry acknowledgement about the benefits of advanced metering capabilities and the significant value of the interval data extracted from these systems.

12.17.04	The Utility Account Manager - Automating the highest point of leverage with Commercial and Industrial Customers Topic: Infomation Technology Article Viewed 4835 Times; Comment on this article It appears the market for Information Technology (IT) spending is seeing slight gains at U.S. utility companies, especially for smaller to mid-size projects that leverage the existing technology investment and present a demonstrable and clear-cut ROI.

9.15.04	Outage Management -- High Impact Utility Marketing to C&I Customers Topic: Grid Operations Article Viewed 5350 Times; Comment on this article In today's environment a utility is more than likely highly focused on a "back to basics" strategy of delivering maximum customer service and reliability in the most cost effective manner within its core service territory.

7.19.04	The utility dilemma - How to service the small to mid-size commercial customer? Topic: Billing & Customer Care Article Viewed 5275 Times; 1 comments In listening to Utility Key Account organizations discuss their goals, one often hears two inherently conflicting objectives - (1) "We want to substantially increase our customer service scores" and (2) "We want to reduce our costs of servicing these customers."

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