Redefining Transmission
In my March editorial, I discussed how public utility commissions craft reliability-based rates. I mentioned that several utilities are now rewarded if...
Powerlink Uplinks
The commencement of the National Electricity Market in southern and eastern Australia in late 1998 introduced a new competitive business environment to...
United States: CDR Systems Acquires Product Line from Cooper
CDR Systems Corp. has acquired the Western Power Products fiberglass enclosures product line from Cooper Power Systems. CDR, through its existing product...
LG&E Energy Signs Systems Integration and Consulting Contract with SchlumbergerSema
LG&E Energy (Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.) has signed an information technology (IT) systems integration and consulting agreement with SchlumbergerSema....
United States: Three Utilities Withdraw Applications to GridSouth RTO
Duke Energy, CP&L and South Carolina Electric & Gas remain committed to the GridSouth RTO (regional transmission organization), but because of regulatory...
United States: S.D. Myers Acquires Ohio Transformer
S.D. Myers (Tallmadge, Ohio) acquired Ohio Transformer from Grand Eagle (Richfield, Ohio), which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2001. Included...
United States: Four Utility Industry Leaders Announce InterLock Partnership
InterLock Utility Solutions (St. Paul, Minnesota) unveiled a completely integrated operations automation solution for the utility industry last month...
Racing into Indianapolis
Indianapolis has proven to be a great show town for us in the past, so we are again wheeling the T&D World Expo into town. Yes, I know, the Indianapolis...
AEW Issues Contract to Power Measurement
AEW ENERGIE AG (AEW, Switzerland) has selected Power Measurement and its Swiss distributor Herren Electronics to supply ION intelligent metering and control...
LODESTAR Opens London Subsidiary
LODESTAR Corp. (Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S.) took a major step in its global expansion with the opening of its first international subsidiary, LODESTAR...
United States: Companies Agree to Terms Regarding Midlands Electricity
Aquila Inc. (formerly UtiliCorp United, Kansas City, Missouri) entered an agreement March 15 with FirstEnergy Corp. (Akron, Ohio) to acquire 79.9% interest...
Itron Completes Acquisition of LineSoft
Itron (Spokane, Washington, U.S.), a technology provider and source of knowledge to the energy and water industries for collecting, analyzing and applying...
Reinforcing the T&D Infrastructure
The electric-utility industry, the engine that drives the economies of countries around the world, has been the beneficiary of unending innovations in...
Europe: Unions Reject EdF Plan as French Privatization Pressure Builds
European Commission President Romano Prodi has threatened serious consequences for France if it fails to open its energy markets to competition during...
China: China to Deregulate Electricity Distribution
China's government has given the green light to a plan to deregulate the country's electricity-distribution monopoly. The plan would separate transmission...
SAIDI and SAIFI, Meet Your New Owner
Like other electric utilities in the mid-1990s, Northeast Utilities (NU, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.) recognized that the significant changes occurring...
Sailing into Big Water
Loose from his moorings and with the wind at his back, Michael Hervey set sail to locate a new job opportunity. After 18 years with ComEd, Hervey was...
Canada: Canadian Companies Sign Outsourcing Agreement
Hydro One Networks Inc. and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Canada Inc. (both of Toronto, Canada) announce that Inergi LP will manage and operate existing business...
Entergy Achieves Significant Savings
In 1997, Entergy Corp. (New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.) embarked on a concerted effort to overhaul its vegetation management program. The aim was to improve...
GRU Explains Outsourcing
Utilities large and small have been outsourcing a variety of services for years. In the area of vegetation management, this generally includes services...
LIPA Advances To the Next Level
Long Island Power Authority (LIPA, Long Island, New York, U.S.) was created as a state municipal agency to absorb the debt of the Shoreham Nuclear Power...
Russia: UES to Create Wholesale Generating Companies
RAO Unified Energy Systems of Russia (UES, Moscow) will begin setting up wholesale generating companies as a result of its split with other shareholders...
United States: Utilities Form Non-Profit
Colectric Partners Inc. (Jacksonville, Florida) is a membership-based organization that is leveraging the collective physical, financial and intellectual...
E-Business Comes to Power Engineering
The Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution Group (Siemens PTD, Erlangen, Germany) has developed an E-Business solution called Concert. This sophisticated...
Europe: EdF Expands UK Operations
Electricit de France (EdF) has strengthened its presence in the British electricity market with its takeover of Eastern Electricity, formerly TXU Europe's...
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