FERC, NRC Commissioners to Discuss Grid Reliability April 8, 2008, in Washington, DC
Commissioners and staff from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will meet at FERC headquarters in Washington, D.C., April 8 to discuss and make presentations on bulk power system (wholesale electricity grid) reliability activities affecting nuclear power plants, planning for new reactors and cyber security. ...
Online Calculators Benefit Customers
PECO (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is providing environmental and energy-saving information to its customers through a new series of Web-based calculators...
PG&E's SmartMeter Program Integrates Ecologic Analytics' MDMS and Goes Live with a Phased Customer Rollout
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG San Francisco, California, U.S.) has completed the implementation and integration of Ecologic Analytics' (Bloomington, Minnesota,...
Refining Reliability Standards
The North American Reliability Corporation's Recent Paper Adequate Level of Reliability Deserves Our Full Attention. Achieving this in the nation's electric...
ERCOT Demand Response Program Helps Restore Frequency Following Grid Event
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) implemented the second stage of its emergency grid procedures Tuesday evening following a sudden drop in the system frequency....
NERC to Conduct Evaluation of Florida Disturbance; CEO Commends Utilities for Restoration Efforts
At approximately 1:09 p.m. EST Tuesday, customers of at least four utilities in Florida lost power....
Blackout Hits Florida; Reason Remains Unknown
Florida Power & Light still does not know how a glitch at a substation triggered a blackout that cut power to millions across south Florida. ...
Westar Energy Publishes Comprehensive Energy Plan
Westar Energy, Inc., Topeka, Kansas, has published a comprehensive energy plan that outlines the company's plans to meet growing customer needs while operating in rapidly changing financial, environmental and political climates...
J.D. Power: Business Customers' Satisfaction With Electric Utilities Continues to Climb to a New High
Continuing a steady upward trend since 2004, business customer satisfaction with electric utility providers has reached record high levels, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Electric Utility Business Customer Satisfaction Study...
NERC Board Addresses Key Blackout Recommendation, Approves New Reliability Standard
The North American Electric Reliability Corp.’s independent Board of Trustees approved an important standard addressing a key recommendation from the U.S. – Canada Joint Task Force on last week....
Ameren Illinois Utilities Assign 900 Workers to Restore Service Following Ice Storm
More than 700 Ameren Illinois Utility workers and outside contractor personnel from across Illinois are working to restore power to about 13,400 AmerenCIPS customers in Southern Illinois. ...
Filipino President Orders Expanded Rural Electrification Program Completed Before 2010
Filipino President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo instructed the country's Department of Energy (DOE) to complete the government’s Expanded Rural Electrification Program before 2010. ...
High Winds Knock Out Power to 75,000 Appalachian Customers in Virginia
More than 75,0000 Appalachian Power Virginia customers lost electricity by mid-day Sunday as high winds blew across the company’s service territory, knocking down trees and sending debris into power lines. ...
Two ComEd Field Employees Violently Attacked Over the Past Two Weeks
Two ComEd field employees were violently attacked in Joliet and Kankakee over the past two weeks, raising the number of vicious assaults against ComEd field employees to 27 since Jan. 2006. ...
NYISO Found Fully Compliant with Reliability Standards
The operation of the bulk electricity system by the New York Independent System Operator is in full compliance with federal reliability standards, according to a recent audit. ...
China State Grid Says Power to Resume Shortly in Worst-Hit Areas
The State Grid of China said that power could be partially restored on Saturday in the worst-hit region in the central province of Hunan, ending an eight-day blackout caused by heavy snow. ...
ComEd Reliability Performance in 2007 Improves
Even though 2007 was ComEd's most active storm year in a decade, the utility achieved impressive reliability improvements on behalf of customers. ...
Seattle Utility to Install IEE Meter Data Management
To improve billing processes for its largest commercial and industrial (C&I) customers, Seattle City Light (SCL; Seattle, Washington, U.S.) will deploy...
Duke's Utility of the Future Includes 57,500 Echelon Smart Meters
Duke Energy (Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.) and Echelon (San Jose, California, U.S.) announce an expansion of the Duke Energy Utility of the Future...
Customer Exchange Portals
As smart grid systems are developed and refined, automated metering infrastructure (AMI) will no doubt play a key role in a fully automated grid, and...
Hydro One Crews Restore Power to 70,000 Affected by Winter Storm
Snow and high winds gusting above 90 km/hr that moved across parts of Ontario this week knocked out power to approximately 90,000 Hydro One customers. ...
Ameren Illinois Utilities Restore Service
Ameren Illinois Utility crews at 8 a.m. today have restored power to about 26,000 of the nearly 30,000 customers who lost power when a fast moving storm packing winds of up to 50 mph raced across Illinois yesterday afternoon and evening....
South Africa Declares National Electricity Emergency
At the end of a week of unprecedented power cuts across southern Africa, South Africa's Cabinet declared a "national electricity emergency" and announced energy-saving measures including solar power and more use of gas. ...
Con Edison to Submit Emergency Implementation Plan
The New York State Public Service Commission has directed Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. to submit an implementation plan addressing the independent management audit of its electric emergency outage response program....
China's State Grid Urges Government to Intervene in Power Crisis
The State Grid Corp. has asked the Chinese government to provide more assistance in handling the current power supply crisis, and to do all it can to boost the delivery of coal to key regions, according to Shanghai's China Business News...
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