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...
Historical Trending Uncovers Potential Relay Problems
The prime objective for protection engineers is to achieve system reliability by maintaining the physical integrity of installed equipment. In this respect,...
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...
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...
Japan: Tohuku Electric's Internal Venture Program Creates New Company
In May 2000, as part of its 50th anniversary observance, Tohuku Electric established its Venture Support Program, an internal venture business incubator...
Kirchhoff's Laws Cannot Be Repealed, Legislated or Ignored
The events in California that led to what is now referred to as the have surfaced several new problems for the electric-power industry. The case study...
Organizational Change Management: Theory and Practice
As regulatory pressures, increasing customer demands and competitive forces impact utilities worldwide, change is becoming the norm rather than the exception....
United States: California Attorney General Sues PG&E Corp. for Unfair Business Practices
The attorney general of California, Bill Lockyer, charged Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. (PG&E Corp.) with illegal, unfair and fraudulent business practices...
Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | Next
