Canada: BC Hydro Accenture Agreement to Save Costs
BC Hydro (Vancouver, British Columbia) and Accenture (Vancouver) have signed a 10-year, US$1.45 billion agreement designed to save BC Hydro customers...
Norway: ABB Tenders Cable Contract with Nexans
Abb has awarded a Euro 41 million contract to cable-provider Nexans (Paris, France) for the supply of 165 km (103 miles) of umbilical cables and 26.5...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Want to be a hero to upper management? Then bury your problems. Submerge them. Keep them from seeing the light of day. Drive down costs of your underground...
Make Sure Your Gun is Loaded
What are you going to do now, Commanding Officer (CO)? These words still bounce around in my mind after 40 years. The place is Ft. Riley, Kansas, U.S.,...
United States: Andrew to Acquire Allen in $500 Million Stock-for-Stock Transaction
Andrew Corp. and Allen Telecom Inc. () have signed a definitive agreement under which Andrew will acquire Allen in a stock-for-stock transaction valued...
United States: English Calls for Time-Out as Congress Considers Misguided Electricity Legislation
Glenn English, CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NERCA), voiced concern about the congressional leadership's timing and content...
United States: NPPD Awards Contract To GE Network Solutions
Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD; Columbus, Nebraska), the state's largest electric utility, awarded GE Network Solutions (Atlanta, Georgia) a multimillion...
Utilities Gear Up For the Future
These are hardly fat and happy times for the electric industry. Utility stock downgrades have become common on Wall Street. As of early March, the Dow...
United States: GE, EPIS Develop Tools For FERC's SMD
GE Power Systems Energy Consulting (PSEC; Atlanta, Georgia) and EPIS Inc. (West Linn, Oregon) announce a joint-development project to provide analytical...
United States: Northeast Utilities Contracts ALSTOM to Supply STATCOM Technology
In an effort to solve voltage-disturbance problems in southwestern Connecticut, Northeast Utilities Service Co. (NU; Berlin, Connecticut) awarded ALSTOM...
Vegetation Managers Weigh Costs Against Performance
What separates one utility vegetation management program from another? Of course good programs address system reliability, vendor cost, quality and customer...
Europe: European Power in NUMBERS: Select Report Findings
The European Union (EU) electricity directive was widely hailed as a significant achievement when it was passed in 1996, but seen from today's perspective,...
Germany/Canada: German Fuel Cell Test and Evaluation Center Places Order for a Fuel Cell Advanced Test Station
ZSW (Ulm, Germany), a research and development organization working in the field of renewable energies, batteries and fuel cells, has selected a test...
United States: Cisco Joins Consortium to Improve Electricity System
The Electricity Innovation Institute (E2I; Palo Alto, California) announced that Cisco Systems Inc. (San Jose, California), a leader in networking for...
The Amazing Metamorphosis Of Illinois Power
I always like a road trip, so with a little extra money left in my 2002 travel budget, I decided to hit the road in mid-December and pay a visit to a...
Nord Pool Chooses OM as Clearing Technology Partner
Nord Pool's wholly owned subsidiary, Nordic Electricity Clearing House ASA (NECH; Oslo, Norway), reached an extensive cooperation agreement with OM (Stockholm,...
Retooling to Transact Energy
In the fall of 2001, Georgia System Operations Corp. (GSOC; Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.) faced a major business and technical challenge. GSOC's business environment...
Romania/Japan: ALSTOM to Create Telecoms Network for Romania
ALSTOM, the leader of a consortium with Japanese firm ITOCHU, has won a Euro 21.9 million contract with Romanian transmission system operator Transelectrica...
Seattle City Light Takes A Forward Look
Seattle City Light's (SCL; Seattle, Washington, U.S.) underground secondary network-distribution system is one of the larger ones in the United States,...
United States: Hubbell Acquires Pole Line Hardware Assets
Hubbell Power Systems Inc. (Orange, Connecticut) acquired the assets of the pole line hardware business of Cooper Power Systems Inc. (Waukesha, Wisconsin),...
United States: Itron Announces Agreement to Acquire Silicon Energy
Itron Inc. (Spokane, Washington) has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Silicon Energy for a total consideration of US$71.2 million. The...
United States: Utility Executives Lose Confidence in Deregulation
Confidence in deregulation has fallen over the last 12 months among senior executives in global energy utility companies, according to a new survey by...
Russia: Lenenergo Board Examines Financial Results
At its meeting on Nov. 21, 2002, in Lenenergo's head office in St. Petersburg, Russia, the company's board of directors met to discuss the restructuring...
Tensioners Go High Tech
Following its merger with Cantamessa S.E. in 2000, the new Tesmec Group (Nuovo Gruppo Tesmec S.p.A.) became the largest international manufacturer of...
Time for a Health Check
January is a great time to reflect on what has been and to plan for what will be. But before I focus on industry trends, I'd like to come clean about...
Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | Next
