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...
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...
NH Utility Engages Plexus Research to Examine AMR
New Hampshire Electric Co-op Inc. (NHEC; Plymouth, New Hampshire, U.S.) engaged Plexus Research Inc. (Boxborough, Massachusetts, U.S.) to facilitate its...
Texas Remains Electric Choice Leader, RED Index Shows, But U.S. Progress Stalled; Restructuring Continues in Canada and Overseas
Texas continues to lead the United States in electricity restructuring, but progress in this country has virtually ground to a halt......
AMR on a Micro Scale
Nashville Electric Service (NES, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.) had an expensive problem. After spending more than US$1.9 million in 1998 to collect beginning...
Charlotte Utility Signs AMR Contract with Itron
Itron Inc. (Spokane, Washington, U.S.) will provide Charlotte Mecklenburg Utilities (CMU) with technology to automate data collection from 30,000 of its...
Impact of DG on Reliability
Sustained interruptions are one of the most common power-quality problems, and in the utility industry, they generally fall under the umbrella. The problem...
NH Utility Engages Plexus Research to Examine AMR
New Hampshire Electric Co-op Inc. (NHEC, Plymouth, New Hampshire, U.S.) engaged Plexus Research Inc. (Boxborough, Massachusetts, U.S.) to facilitate its...
Russia: Lenenergo Power Output Sharply up in 2002
JSC is the largest utility in northwest Russia, with a franchise of 6.4 million people in St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city, and the Leningrad...
Kansas City on Ice
On the morning of Jan. 31, 2002, 305,000 of the 450,000 customers (68%) of Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) were without...
PG&E Offers Online Energy-Efficiency Analysis Tools
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E, San Francisco, California, U.S.) launched new online tools on its Web site (www.pge.com) designed to help customers...
Canada: New Contract Options for Ontario Electricity Consumers
Direct Energy Marketing Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) is offering consumers a three-year fixed electricity contract with a one-year opt-out clause. The new...
Xcel Energy's Saver's Switch Program Reduces Energy Costs for Customers
Ten percent of Xcel Energy's (Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.) 3.2 million electricity customers in Minnesota, Colorado, Texas and other states have signed...
Swiss Utility Specifies ION 7600 Meters
AEW ENERGIE AG (AEW, Switzerland) has selected Power Measurement (Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada) and its Swiss distributor, Herren Electronics,...
Reliability Revisited
Editor in Chief Rick Bush received the following letter in response to his editorial Redefining Transmission, which appeared in the May 2002 issue of...
ComEd Connects with SmartSynch SmartMeters
Recognizing the need for easily accessible and timely energy-usage information, Commonwealth Edison (ComEd, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) recently contracted...
The Cogen Customer Connection
Each independent power producer connecting to the grid seems to have a unique story to tell. In this case, two stories emerge. Entergy Wholesale Operations...
Country Energy Takes the Lead with Complex C&I Capabilities
Country Energy rapidly deployed Peace Software's (Miami, Florida, U.S.) Energy CIS (Customer Information System) to compete in the Australian full retail...
Italy: ENEL Customers Receive Advanced Digital Meters
ENEL has created the Contatore Elettronico project, a plan to replace old meters with more technologically advanced units that can be remotely monitored...
ESCO Subsidiary Wins AMR Contract
The Distribution Control Systems Inc. (DCSI) subsidiary of ESCO Technologies Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.) has received a contract from PPL Electric...
npower Simplifies Billing Processes
npower (Worcester, England), one of the United Kingdom's largest retail energy companies, has successfully implemented SPL WorldGroup's (London) customer...
United States: OG&E and Suppliers Tackle February 2002 Ice Storm
Two days before the dramatic February 2002 ice storm hit Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, Ben Brandt, manager of procurement and resources services for...
DEMCO Adapts Programs To Ensure Reliability
Up until 1993, Dixie Electric Membership Cooperative's (DEMCO) right-of-way (R/W) program was on an eight- to nine-year cycle of distribution trimming...
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