Telkonet to Deliver Broadband to Ameren Customers in the Midwest
Telkonet Inc. (Germantown, Maryland, U.S.) has partnered with Ameren Energy Communications and River City Internet Group (RCIG; Creve Coeur, Missouri,...
The Greening of Energy
Several years ago I was asked to speak at a green energy conference in Portland, Oregon, U.S. I predicted that, at best, wind and solar energy would enable...
Black & Veatch Opens Vietnam Branch
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.) has opened an energy office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to provide support for the growing power and hydrocarbon...
Residential Interest in Backup Power Grows
A growth spurt of distributed energy (DE) technology is occurring in the residential market, according to a recent consumer survey by Energy Insights...
WEG Purchases Part of Voltran Ltd.
WEG Electric Motors Corp. has acquired part of Mexican transformer manufacturer Voltran Ltd. This newly formed alliance will facilitate the advance of...
Eesti Energia Buys Scandinavian Company
Estonian national energy company Eesti Energia has purchased Scandinavian energy-trading company Solidus, marking Eesti Energia's first acquisition outside...
I've Been to Varennes
I've visited just about every utility labratory in North America over the years, but I've never managed to make it to the Institute de Research Hydro-Qubec...
Reverse Online Auction Saves Maryland Millions in Energy Procurement
Maryland's Department of General Services (DGS) will realize more than US$7 million in savings by having procured electricity through an online energy...
New Jersey College Offers Online Utility Technology Bachelor's Degree Program
PSE&G (Newark, New Jersey, U.S.) and Thomas Edison State College (Trenton, New Jersey) have partnered to develop the nation's first bachelor's degree...
Cooper Power Buys Cannon Technologies
Cooper Industries (Houston, Texas, U.S.) announced in mid-August that its subsidiary Cooper Power Systems Inc. has acquired Cannon Technologies Inc. (Minneapolis,...
ITC Holdings Creates New Subsidiaries
ITC Holdings has formed two new subsidiaries. ITC Grid Development was established to focus on bringing much needed improvements to the nation's electricity...
Why Interoperability?
As telecommunications and banking illustrate, interoperability is a necessary platform for innovation of services and technologies that create new value...
Taking training the extra mile
When I took the job as electric training director for the Missouri Public Utility Alliance (MPUA) in January of 2001 and began visiting utilities, I heard...
U.S. Electricity Rates Remain Highest in Deregulated States
The national average price of electricity in the United States rose by 10.9% from April 2005 to April 2006, according to a survey conducted by NUS Consulting...
Beijing to host ciced 2006
Engineers and technical managers from electric power distribution companies, equipment manufacturing factories, research and development institutes and...
U.S. Heat Wave Sets Record Demand
All seven U.S. regional independent electric grid operators set new record demands in July as they met the challenge of record high temperatures without...
Municipals & Cooperatives: Speed And Size Are On Their Side
According to the American Public Power Association (APPA), more than 2000 cities and towns in the United States run on power electricity that comes from...
Look at the numbers
Power industry demographics are not usually a topic of interest for an engineer. My curiosity about this subject started when I worked at a utility that...
Executive Roundtable
The editorial staff of Transmission & Distribution World, along with the power-delivery unit of Black & Veach (B&V), convened a group of industry experts...
CEMIG Establishes Outsourcing Strategy
Structural changes made in the Brazilian electric power market, industry deregulation, the privatization of companies, the institution of free consumers...
National Grid and KeySpan Propose Merger
KeySpan Corp. and National Grid have proposed a merger to provide customer savings and allow them to operate more efficiently, manage energy supply costs...
Baltimore Considers Public Power
The Baltimore City Council is looking into creating a municipal electric utility to provide a more reasonable rate than the current service providers...
ABB to Support Irish Electric Market
Through a multimillion-euro contract, ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) will provide the computer systems and software infrastructure for Ireland's new single...
Duquesne Light Purchased for US$1.6 Billion
On July 6, 2006, the Macquarie Consortium announced plans to buy Duquesne Light Holdings Inc. for US$1.6 billion and assume more than $1.26 billion in...
Honolulu to Test Municipal Wi-Fi
Chinatown, a Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S., neighborhood, is establishing a public-private partnership with Internet service provider (ISP) EarthLink in a pilot...
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