GeoDigital Acquires Powel Inc.
Norway's Powel AS has sold the assets of its U.S. subsidiary Powel Inc. to digital mapping, imaging and data acquisition services firm GeoDigital International...
AES Finalizes Acquisition of DPL Inc
The AES Corp. has announced that its acquisition of DPL Inc. has closed, effective Monday, having received all necessary regulatory approvals and consents....
BPA and California ISO Enhance Regional Coordination With Faster Response in Energy Scheduling
Northwest wind energy producers can now balance the variable output of their resource by scheduling their electricity into California every thirty minutes instead of only once an hour. ...
President of Connecticut Light & Power Resigns After Storm-Caused Power Outages
Northeast Utilities’ Chairman Charles W. Shivery last week announced changes in senior leadership and in the emergency preparedness organization of its Connecticut Light & Power operating company. ...
Energy Storage Groups Join Forces
The Electricity Storage Association has signed agreements to work with industry groups in three states--California, New York and Texas. ...
Closing the Knowlege Gap
We all know we are approaching a crisis in power engineering education. A generation gap has developed in the electric power industry, resulting from...
Sensei Solution and Southern States Announce Strategic Partnership
Sensei Solutions, a provider of electric utility smart grid solutions, announces an equity investment by and strategic partnership with Southern States,...
The Test of Time
Last month, in Rick's Rules of Survival, I summarized methods of managing a difficult boss. But how is it that we have created a corporate environment...
FERC Sets New Compensation Method for Regulation Service
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) acted today to remedy undue discrimination and ensure just and reasonable rates for providers of a service that organized wholesale power market operators use to balance supply and demand and ensure the reliability of their systems. ...
Exelon, Constellation Strengthen Merger Proposal
Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) and Constellation Energy (NYSE:CEG) today filed rebuttal testimony with the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) that strengthens the companies' commitments related to the proposed merger, which is currently under review by the PSC. ...
Global Electricity Transformers Market to Reach US$53.6 Billion, 9.7 Million Units by 2017
GIA has released a comprehensive global report on transformers markets. ...
Grid, Storage, and Electric Vehicle M&A Hits $2.4 Billion in 1H 2011
Merger and acquisition (M&A) deals – just in the first six months of 2011 – have already totaled twice those made during all of 2010, and many more cash-starved smart grid, energy storage, and electric vehicle (EV) start-ups are due for the auction block, according to a new report from Lux Research....
FERC Conditionally Authorizes Duke Energy-Progress Energy Merger
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has conditionally authorized the proposed merger of Duke Energy and Progress Energy, subject to the agency's approval of mitigation measures to address its finding that the combined company could have an adverse effect on competition in Carolinas power markets...
S&C Celebrates the Past 100 Years, Commits to the Next 100 Years
S&C Electric Co. celebrated its 100-year anniversary on Sept. 25, 2011, with a daylong extravaganza for family and friends: family because S&C is employee-owned....
FERC Advises MISO to Resubmit Entergy Cost-Allocation Proposal
In June 2011, MISO asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to waive, during a transition period, tariff provisions related to the cost allocation...
Parsons Brinckerhoff Wins South Australian Engineering Excellence Award
Parsons Brinckerhoff together with its client and project owner ElectraNet were recognized for innovative work on the Clare North substation project in...
Next-Generation Engineers
On May 25, 1961, President Kennedy proclaimed that the U.S would send an American to the moon and back before that decade was out. The space program in...
Are You Debit or Credit?
A few months ago, about 1,500 power engineers descended on Detroit, Michigan, U.S., for the IEEE Power & Energy Society's 2011 General Meeting. Once a...
Rick's Rules of Survival
Are you tired of being manipulated by your boss as he tries to squeeze every last drop of productivity out of you? And, at the same time, does your boss...
MISO to Re-File Entergy Cost Allocation Proposal According to FERC Guidance
In June 2011, MISO asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to waive, during a transition period, tariff provisions related to the cost allocation of network upgrades associated with Multi-Value Projects in order to establish a smooth and fair transition for integrating Entergy operating companies into MISO. ...
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