To all readers of the IPPSO FACTO magazine,
2020 is turning out to be a year of major disruption, with nearly all businesses reorganizing themselves to reflect dramatically different conditions.
APPrO’s magazine, IPPSO FACTO, intends to embrace new opportunities and recognize new realities. After publishing hardcopy magazines on a bimonthly basis for more than 30 years, APPrO has decided to revise the magazine format. Going forward, the IPPSO FACTO magazine will be delivered in electronic form only. It will no longer be printed on paper and mailed to you, our readers.
In addition, we will be moving to a quarterly publication cycle, rather than bimonthly. Since November 1988, the IPPSO FACTO magazine has been published bimonthly, or six times per year. We plan to bring you the same high quality content as always, in a more flexible and sustainable form.
The IPPSO FACTO magazine has gone through many stages of evolution since the first edition was distributed on April 6, 1987. From a 2-page newsletter, the magazine progressed through several distinct phases, sometimes incorporating additional serialized publications on power project finance, on regulatory processes, and on other topics of interest. The graphic format was revamped in 1988, 2004, and 2008, each time reflecting the evolving needs of the readership and the growing capabilities of the organization. In 2006, APPrO began publishing on the web, at the domain http://magazine.appro.org. In fact, you can still find most of the magazine’s content on the APPrO website going back to that date.
All told, since inception, APPrO has published a total of 282 editions and supplements of the IPPSO FACTO magazine. Electronic copies of all these publications are still available in the APPrO archives.
Cover of an early edition of IPPSO FACTO November 1988
What the future holds is of course a work in progress and a question we intend to explore with you, our readers, in the days ahead. News and information is just as important as it ever was, while the options for receiving content are improving and multiplying.
You will undoubtedly have noticed that APPrO magazine content has already been provided in multiple formats besides hardcopy printing. Examples include:
a) APPrO’s weekly bulletin “PowerBrief” distributed by email every Thursday
b) In HTML formatted content on the APPrO magazine website http://magazine.appro.org
c) On CD-ROM (primarily for supplements containing conference proceedings)
d) In postings on LinkedIn, Energy Central and other third party online platforms
e) In blogs, social media postings, and many other media.
For those readers whose hardcopy subscriptions expire at the end of August, we encourage you to re-subscribe to the electronic edition of the magazine this fall. For those readers who continue to subscribe to the electronic distribution, please make sure you have supplied APPrO with your most current email address.
Of course, this is also an excellent time to let APPrO know what you think of the magazine, what it should be focusing on, and how it should position itself for the future.
From the entire team at APPrO, I’d like to say that we are deeply grateful for your continued readership.
We look forward to hearing your views on how to approach the future.
Sincerely,
Jake Brooks, Editor