The Evolution of Japan’s Liberalized Electricity Market Tokyo, Japan, March 20, 2025. Skipping Stone has announced the publication of a complimentary white paper, Retail 3.0, written by Chairman & CEO Peter Weigand. The paper discusses the evolution of Japan’s electricity markets since the original liberalization in the period from 2000 through 2024. The paper goes […]
Los Angeles – March 4, 2025 – Skipping Stone’s latest white paper, “Acquiring Books of Customers vs. Improving Customer Retention,” addresses the Retail Energy Providers’ (REP) costly cycle of customer churn, i.e., losing customers, buying them back, and repeating the process. Skipping Stone CEO Peter Weigand — a former U.S. energy retailer CEO and global energy […]
Boston – May 22, 2024 – Skipping Stone President, Greg Lander, and CEO, Peter Weigand have collaborated to develop a comprehensive set of solutions to finally solve the elusive gas and electric market synchronization issues. This paper is a follow-on to the original paper published in 2013 that resulted in several operational changes to address […]
Los Angeles – January 25, 2024 – Skipping Stone has been named International Energy Consultancy of the Year 2023 by Acquisition International publications. According to AI, Skipping Stone was awarded for “exceling at collaborating with clients to curate new ideas, tactics, and strategies, and once a strategy is clearly defined, the team provides a host […]
Los Angeles – February 1, 2024 – Skipping Stone surveyed energy executives across the globe to get their views on a variety of energy transformation topics to gauge trends for 2024 and beyond. Survey results compare views from the U.S., Japan, and other global leaders. On many topics, energy leaders’ views diverge significantly from government […]
Announces New Client Promotion Tokyo, Japan April 5, 2023. TESLA Asia Pacific is delighted to announce its new office in Tokyo as well as a partnership with Skipping Stone. TESLA specializes in delivering power and gas demand forecasting and has been providing accurate forecasts to over 200 utility companies in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East […]
Tokyo, Japan – November 8, 2022 – Skipping Stone, a global energy markets strategy consulting and implementation services firm, announced today that Takashi Saka has joined the firm as Senior Consultant, Skipping Stone Japan. Saka will be responsible for leading the company’s Japan risk management services, trading, and wholesale client engagements for ETRM technologies initiatives. […]
Tokyo, Japan – November 1, 2022 – Skipping Stone, a global energy markets strategy consulting and implementation services firm, today announced the promotion of Hiroshi Okuyama as President of Skipping Stone Japan. Prior to the promotion, Okuyama was the Executive Vice President leading the company’s risk management services and wholesale markets practice areas where he […]
Los Angeles, CA – August 6, 2021 –Skipping Stone has been recognized as the Best Specialist Energy Consulting Firm – USA, a Global Excellence Award, for the second year in a row by Acquisition International magazine. The magazine hand picks Global Excellence recipients each year based on the comprehensive analysis and research undertaken by the […]
Boston, Massachusetts – June 2, 2021 – Skipping Stone, a global energy consulting and market services firm, released today the results of their follow-up study on coronavirus impacts on energy markets. The original study conducted in March 2020, when Covid-19 was new, measured what companies planned to do in response to stay-at-home orders and other societal […]