Emergency Security
As we harden physical and cyber security in light of Sept. 11, hackers and a string of natural disasters, we must also consider sustaining operations...
Scandinavian System Upgraded
Energinet.dk (Fredericia, Denmark) and Statnett (Oslo, Norway) have selected ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) to upgrade the control system of their 30-year-old...
Energy Investment Firm Buys Majority Stake in MYR Group
William Koertner, the president and CEO of MYR Group Inc., was knee-deep in a swamp on a job site in Florida when the editors of Transmission & Distribution...
Intergraph Aids Security at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games
Intergraph Corp. customer Istituto Geografico Militare Italiano (IGMI), one of the national institutions providing the Italian government with digital...
Massachusetts Cuts Energy Costs
During a time when many utilities are raising their electric and gas rates, the state of Massachusetts expects to cut its energy costs. World Energy has...
Are We There Yet?
I have a relatively high tolerance for pain. Maybe that explains why my family still takes 14-hour road trips each Christmas from Kansas City to visit...
Utility Competition Thrives in Britain
Despite rises in energy bills in the last two years, competition among British energy suppliers remains strong, according to research published by Britain's...
U.S. Utilities Seeking to Raise Rates
Utilities all across the United States have been seeking rate increases. A few of those utilities include Puget Sound Energy (PSE; Bellevue, Washington,...
SMUD Receives New Technology From CIBER in Record Time
During the second half of 2005, CIBER Novasoft, a division of CIBER Inc., successfully implemented a new low-cost wireless warehouse management system...
GE, Australian Bank Vie for TXU's Distribution Assets
General Electric Co. and Australian investment bank Macquarie Bank Ltd. are both vying for a stake in TXU Corp.'s distribution business in a deal estimated...
FPL Group, Constellation Energy to Merge
LATE IN 2005, FPL GROUP AND CONSTELLATION ENERGY GROUP announced plans to merge, creating the United States' largest competitive energy supplier and its...
Northwest U.S. Transmission Owners Form New Organization
To achieve needed transmission improvements, Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Chelan County PUD, Grant County PUD, Puget Sound Energy and Seattle...
T&D World Names New Publisher, Technology Editor
Transmission & Distribution World announces the promotion of Phil Musser to publisher of the magazine. He previously served as its executive editor since...
FERC Reports to Congress on Refund Case Status
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), in its response to the energy crisis that affected California and other Western states in 2000 and 2001,...
TXU to Provide BPL to 2 Million Homes
TXU Electric Delivery and CURRENT Communications Group, LLC have entered into an agreement to transform TXU Electric Delivery's power distribution network...
ALLETE to Invest $60 Million in ATC
ALLETE Inc. (Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.) has signed an agreement with American Transmission Co. (ATC) that will allow ALLETE, through its Wisconsin subsidiary...
The Utility Leaders of the Future
If you take a close look at the demographic profile of employees at Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OG Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.), the portrait is not unlike...
NU to Divest Competitive Businesses
Broadening a strategy launched earlier this year when it announced its intention to exit the competitive energy wholesale marketing and services businesses,...
Fuel Cell Technology to Benefit from the Excess Burden on Transmission Networks
Fuel cell-based power generation technologies are expected to receive a huge boost due to current transmission networks' inability to handle excess demand,...
ITC Holds Strong in First Months on New York Stock Exchange
THIS HAS BEEN A YEAR OF FIRSTS FOR ITC (ITC Holdings Corp. and its principal operating subsidiary International Transmission Co.; Novi, Michigan, U.S.)....
AFTER THE MERGER: INTEGRATING DISPARATE SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES
DRIVING FORCES in our industry are changing the way in which utility companies like Xcel Energy must compete with rivals, work with suppliers and offer...
Entergy Corp.'s New Orleans Subsidiary Files for Bankruptcy Protection
In an effort to protect its customers and ensure continued progress in restoring power and gas service to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Entergy...
Aquila Agrees to Sell Selected Utility Assets in Transactions Totaling US$896.7 Million
Aquila Inc. (Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) has signed definitive agreements to sell four utility businesses identified for potential sale on March 14,...
MAINTAINING CRITICAL ASSETS
IT'S NOT ALL FUN AND GAMES when a utility embraces an asset management model and decides to rework its business processes. Developing an integrated business...
Hurricane Katrina Threatens To Disrupt IEEE PES T&D Expo
The IEEE PES T&D Expo is scheduled to come to New Orleans, Louisiana, October 9-14, 2005, to the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Unfortunately, Hurricane...
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