Siemens Equips Stadium with Solar Power System
Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD; Erlangen, Germany) has installed a photovoltaic system at the Nuremberg soccer stadium. Siemens PTD...
Northpower Selects Intergraph's G/Technology to Streamline Operations in New Zealand
Northpower Ltd. has selected Intergraph Corp.'s G/Technology to streamline operations and optimize decision support among its network lines division....
TXU Contracts with InfrastruX for Utility Infrastructure and Management Services
TXU Electric Delivery (Dallas, Texas, U.S.), a subsidiary of TXU Corp., has signed a 10-year, US$8.7 billion agreement with InfrastruX Energy Group for...
UPS Competition Heats Up in Europe
Investments in the uninterruptible power-supply (UPS) markets in Europe are on the rise, according to consulting company Frost & Sullivan (London, England)....
Consulting Groups Form Alliance
Consulting firms Commonwealth Associated Inc. (Jackson, Michigan, U.S.) and The Louis Berger Group Inc. (East Orange, New Jersey, U.S.) have signed a...
Puget Energy Sells InfrastruX Group to Focus on Utility Business
The Tenaska Power Fund has acquired InfrastruX Group Inc. (Bellevue, Washington, U.S.), a national provider of infrastructure construction services to...
Little Utility Takes Big Steps
I went to visit Craig Broussard in Herber City, Utah. I just had to see what his local utility, Herber Light & Power Co. was doing. I first ran into Broussard...
Wrtsil Delivers a 163-MWe Gas Power Plant to PG&E
W Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) was selected to deliver a 163 MWe gas-fired power plant to Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG San Francisco, California, U.S.)....
Qualified Contractors
One of the utility management enigmas puzzling me is that, on one hand, our industry is being pushed steadily and persistently to be more competitive,...
QVM Sets Standard
BASF Professional Vegetation Management's Quality Vegetation Management (QVM) is a standard for vegetation-management practices designed to help vegetation...
A Tale of Two Careers
For nearly 34 years, I had the good fortune to work for Wisconsin Energy Corp. Throughout my career there, I was able to learn nearly every facet of the...
ITC Buys Michigan Electric Transmission
ITC Holdings Corp. (Novi, Michigan, U.S.) has closed a deal to acquire all of the outstanding equity interests in Michigan Electric Transmission Co.,...
Pole Committee Marks 100 Years
The Southern California Joint Pole Committee (SCJPC) is commemorating 100 years of cooperation among utilities this year. Originally named the Los Angeles...
GE, PowerLight and Catavento Break Ground on Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant
GE Energy Financial Services, PowerLight Corp. and Catavento Lda broke ground on June 6, 2006, on one of the world's largest solar photovoltaic power...
RAO UES of Russia Grows Competitive Procurement Transactions in 2005
RAO UES Holding Co. (Moscow, Russia) carried out 9245 procurement transactions on a competitive basis in 2005, which represents an increase of 24% compared...
PSN Components Buys Newell Porcelain, Forms NEWELL-PSN
PSN Components (Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.), a global manufacturer of high-quality electro-porcelain insulators for medium- and high-voltage applications,...
Let's Take the Long View
We might be our own worst enemy when it comes to working with suppliers in the purchase and installation of equipment and materials for our power-delivery...
Buying Transformers
The days of short lead times, stable materials markets, and endless production capacity for large power and generator step-up transformers are over. Today's...
Entergy Heads Back to New Orleans
Entergy has resumed operations out of its New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., corporate headquarters, which had been displaced by Hurricane Katrina last year....
Investment Group Acquires Hunt Technologies
Hunt Technologies (Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, U.S.), a supplier of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and meter monitoring technology, signed an acquisition...
G&W Purchases Product Line
G&W Electric (Blue Island, Illinois, U.S.) has purchased the MacLean Power Systems (Franklin Park, Illinois) cable terminations product line. The purchase...
New Group Serves N.W. Interconnection
ColumbiaGrid, a new entity created to improve the operational efficiency, reliability and planned expansion of the Northwest interconnected electric transmission...
Direct Energy Acquires Entergy's ERCOT Customer Base
Direct Energy (Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.) has acquired the competitive electric customer base of Entergy Solutions Ltd., located in the Electric Reliability...
Bright Minds, Bright Ideas to Converge at IEEE PES T&D
What a tortous path we traversed as we chased the holy grail of deregulation. There's a reason our dear congressmen and regulators saved this industry...
International Transmission Company Now Known as ITCTransmission
International Transmission Company (Novi, Michigan, U.S.) has changed its name to ITCTransmission. The name change was announced on March 15. The company...
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