Fifty Million People Affected in Massive Northeast Blackout
On August 14, a massive blackout swept across major portions of the northeastern United States and southern Canada. Workers in major cities including...
That Glorious Darkness
The darkness of which I speak is the gloom that descended on 50 million people on the East Coast. It was Aug. 14, 2003, at 4:11 p.m. Eastern Standard...
IMO Releases Details of Power Restoration Effort
Canada's Independent Electricity Market Operator (IMO) has released a chronology of the events in Ontario immediately prior to and following the blackout...
Ofgem Investigating Power Failure in London
Britain's Office of Gas and Electric Markets (Ofgem) regulator is investigating the power failure that occurred Aug. 28, 2003, in London, England. Ofgem's...
New Source Review Regulations Will Bolster Electric Reliability as Emissions Continue to Decrease
The Edison Electric Institute welcomed the Bush administration's New Source Review (NSR) regulations, declaring that the final rule issued today will...
United States: Industry Votes to Approve NERC Cyber Security Standard
The electric industry has voted to approve a cyber security standard that will help to ensure the continued reliability of North American bulk electric...
United States: Utilities Continue to Outsource More Services
Utilities are increasingly outsourcing specific tasks, and one of the most common outsourced functions is bill printing and mailing. About one-third of...
Faster Fault Finding and Service Restoration
Cobb Electric Membership Corp. (Cobb EMC; Kennesaw, Georgia, U.S.) has reduced outage restoration time from more than an hour to just five minutes by...
United States: Panel Concludes: Electric Retail Consumers Make Needs Known
After a year of in-depth study and review, the CECA Electric Industry Restructuring Forum, convened by the Consumer Energy Council of America (CECA),...
Global Positioning Satellite Hastens Emergency Repair
The global positioning satellite (GPS) emergency repair system in service at Shanghai Municipal Electric Power Co. (SMEPC; Shanghai, China) offers a management...
United States: Satisfaction with Electric Utilities Falls as Electric Bills Increase 9% over 2002
Rising electric bills, coupled with the slumping economy, are taking a toll on the satisfaction levels of business customers with their electric utility...
Utility Studies Voluntary Demand Reductions Using THE DEMAND EXCHANGE
For 30 years, utilities have used voluntary customer-direct, load-control programs with customers to reduce electricity use during critical times. Progress...
Custom Power Choices Abound
As commercial and industrial customers become more and more reliant on high-quality and high-reliability electric power, utilities have considered approaches...
Niagara Mohawk Installs Two Million Metering Points to Support AMR
Niagara Mohawk (Syracuse, New York, U.S.), a National Grid company, has engaged Plexus Research Inc. (Boxborough, Massachusetts, U.S.) for consulting...
Surge Suppression Offerings Spark Response
Increasing awareness among end users of the need for surge-protection devices for their sensitive home electronics and appliances has led to a growing...
Total Web Solutions Allows Power Users to Read Power Metering Data Directly Through the Web
Electro Industries/GaugeTech (EIG; Westbury, New York, U.S.) introduces Total Web Solutions (TWS), an advanced Ethernet card and Web-reporting tool for...
The Virtual Utility Becomes A Reality in South Texas
Investor-owned Sharyland Utilities (SU; McAllen, Texas, U.S.) is the first new electric utility in Texas since the founding of the Public Utility Commission...
2002 Demand-Response Benchmarking Tool
The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and the Peak Load Management Alliance (PLMA) announce that the 2002 On-Line Demand Response Benchmarking System is...
KEPCO Develops Automatic Power Restoration System
While Korea's transmission systems include 765-, 345- and 154-kV design voltages, the Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) has increasingly invested in...
Oncor Connects Advanced Metering Over Ethernet
Oncor, the regulated energy-delivery business within TXU Corp. (Dallas, Texas, U.S.), is the first company in the United States to rely on high-speed...
Siemens Lets Customers Save on Travel Expenses With Live Access to Remote-Acceptance Testing of Power Transformers
Although a special trip to the manufacturing plant to witness final-acceptance testing of their power transformers is important for most customers, they...
United States: PSE Customers Choose Green Power Plan
An increasing number of Puget Sound Energy (PSE; Bellevue, Washington) customers are willing to pay a little extra to buy solar and wind power. Nearly...
City Power Improves Customer Service
City Power (Johannesburg, South Africa) is focusing on improved customer care while ensuring long-term sustainability and reliability of the entire operations...
NES Tackles Circuit Reliability
To meet growing power demand, Nashville Electric Service (NES; Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.), with assistance from ABB Utility Consulting, completed a 20-year...
Power Quality and Reliability Can't Wait for Deregulation
Each of us involved with electrical design, operations or customer service has an interest in power quality and reliability. Then again, we also realize...
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