"These customers have zero ability to connect their usage to real-time pricing, " says Guthridge.
The only other item we buy in such quantities with such poor real-time pricing information is health care.
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About half of U.S. homes are on equalized billing programs that even out power bills month to month and are the antithesis of real-time pricing programs.
Early-stage drug developers can have a difficult time pricing and trading even in perfect market conditions, although the last one that came public, Tesaro Inc.
"You'd be led to believe that you put in real-time pricing and a nice Web site and immediately get a 15% reduction in energy use, " says Accenture's Guthridge.
But utilities have signed up few customers for real-time pricing.
Under such a scenario, known as dynamic or real-time pricing, it's expected that customers will turn up the temperature of their air conditioners a few degrees to save money.
Exelon ( EXC - news - people ), plans to put 8, 000 customers on real-time pricing among the 131, 000 homes it plans to equip with smart meters by next year.
Companies like mine are laying the groundwork for these changes by allowing the nation's utilities to effectively collect data from across their networks (down to the individual transformer) to help real-time pricing decision, real-time security and transmission.
One survey found that managers spent less than 10% of their time on pricing.
This data package, coupled with the intellectual property that enables appropriate time-delimited monopoly pricing to extract returns over time, is what creates the futures market for their currency.
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Why is time-sensitive pricing so uncommon in Hollywood?
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The report calls for an international framework on differential pricing in time for next year's G8 summit.
That led to pricing and time-frame terms the technicians couldn't meet.
One publisher said that while pricing is a worry, Amazon has been very fair and has indicated that publishers will have more say on pricing in time.
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As it is, time-of-week pricing in the film business is for the most part limited to half-hearted efforts like senior citizen matinees.
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The government said it was building on recent proposals by the energy regulator Ofgem, which has been looking into pricing for some time.
While we're looking forward to spending some serious alone time with the D2, pricing and release dates were absent from today's announcement, beyond arriving this quarter.
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This was a demonstration of a suite of open and extensible software applications for managing energy demand and time-of-use pricing by a firm in Boulder, Colorado, called Tendril.
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Since then, the salesforce has been reorganised, with the loss of 4, 000 jobs in the past year, and many sales have moved to Oracle's website, where new standardised pricing has replaced time-wasting negotiation.
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Meanwhile, HP after all this time told us nothing about pricing of the tablet, there was no mention of carrier partners and there are no assurances that the platform is going to attract robust support from developers.
Thus it becomes absolutely necessary for the company to remain competitive and maintain both share and pricing, although Time Warner Cable is not alone in this position as other highly leveraged companies like Sprint face similar issues.
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Ted Kennedy's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee gets enacted, health insurance pricing will enter a time warp.
Brands are having a harder time holding the line on premium pricing.
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They should be thinking about how to position themselves at the center of the energy information network, supplying the pricing and real-time usage information to the customer and his or her machines.
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Scatter pricing is when advertisers buy time during a season or based on specific targets or events.
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The solution to this dilemma is to make real-time (and day-ahead) pricing and meter data information to the customer at all times.
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