William P. Zarakas

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a utility platform based on the traditional linear business model, which derives its revenues and profits primarily from intermediating transactions between buyers and sellers, in order to produce market growth, as benchmark platform businesses have.

TL;DR: More utilities than ever before are preparing plans to invest in asset hardening and system resiliency, specifically in response to the potential for increases in prolonged outages caused by the greater frequency of severe weather events as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The evolution of the competitive telecom industry provides an instructive analogy with respect to the way that monopoly providers responded to the opening up of their infrastructure to competitors and the rapid development of intermodal competition as discussed by the authors.