Edison Electric Institute Announces Edison Award Winners
Public Service Enterprise Group and Portland General Electric have both been named winners of the domestic Edison Award by the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), while British Columbia Transmission Corp. and Hydro-Québec were named as joint winners of the international Edison Award....
Texas Commission Rule Requires Utilities to File Storm Hardening Plans
The Texas Public Utility Commission has approved a new rule requiring electric utilities to file storm hardening plans to reduce outages and limit infrastructure damage from weather-related events....
Home Energy Management to be a Critical Element of the Smart Grid User Experience, Says Pike Research
With technology vendors from small device startups to Microsoft and Google moving into the home energy management (HEM) market, and with governments and utilities investing billions of dollars into smart grid and smart meter deployments, sales of HEM systems will grow rapidly over the next several years....
Report Examines High-Impact, Low-Frequency Risks to the Grid
The North American Electric Reliability Corp. and the U.S. Department of Energy released a report today that identifies a certain class of high-impact, low-frequency risk shown to have the potential to significantly affect the reliability of the North American bulk power system....
CenterPoint Energy Gears Up for Hurricane Season
Hurricane season officially begins today, and just as CenterPoint Energy has an Emergency Operations Plan, the company urges customers to have their own emergency plan ready to implement should a hurricane strike....
Back to the Business of Delivering Power
Great Lakes Energy, like many cooperatives across the nation, spent half a decade in the late 1990s focusing its member-satisfaction efforts on diversification...
Power Quality and Wind
Supplying a growing consumer demand is the foundation of the electric power industry. In recent years, coal generation has become a major source of contention...
Face-to-Face Contact
The Utility Arborist Association's System Forester Task Force has researched and evaluated the typical practices involved in customer interface for line...
Microsoft's Hohm Scores Now Available for 60 Million Homes
More than 60 million homeowners can now answer one simple question: Am I an energy hog or an energy miser? Microsoft Corp. announces the availability...
A Culture of Reliability
Improving reliability was a top priority for utility executives following the August 2003 blackout that unraveled the northeastern United States and southeastern...
Oncor Launches Storm Outage Map
To satisfy customers’ desire for more information on restoration efforts, Oncor is piloting a new website including a map of outages and real-time weather information....
OG&E Opens Tornado-Response Customer Walk-up Centers
OG&E is opening walk-up centers for customers affected by the May 10 tornadoes...
PG&E Provides Detailed Reports on SmartMeter Program, Announces Further Steps to Address Customer Questions
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in San Francisco has released 45 reports dating back to August 2006, that provide a detailed look inside the company's SmartMeter program....
The Virtual Call Center
The Mutual Assistance Routing System (MARS) is a high-tech solution to provide customer care backup assistance to member utilities of the Southeastern...
Honeywell Uses Residential Programs to Drive Energy Efficiency in the Carolinas
Honeywell has announced two separate three-year contracts with Progress Energy to manage and deliver energy-efficiency programs for residential customers...
Brazil to Launch a New National Energy-Efficiency Program
The Brazilian government (GOB) plans to release a National Plan for Energy Efficiency to gradually decrease energy consumption and save 106 TWh by 2030....
PG&E Embarks on Major Solar Initiative
The California Public Utilities Commission has approved plans for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) to begin implementing a major new solar photovoltaic...
Austin to Receive $10 Million to Expand Efficiency Programs
The city of Austin, Texas, U.S., has been awarded $10 million in federal stimulus funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and implement...
Trimming Your Way to a More Reliable Future
Ten years ago, Nashville Electric Service, one of the 12 largest public electric utilities in the United States, had tree-related outages 10 times that...
EF Johnson Technologies Receives Orders to Support DoD's AMI Program
EF Johnson Technologies Inc.'s 3e Technologies International (3eTI) subsidiary has received orders valued at $4.5 million from U.S. Department of Defense...
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