PECO: Storms Caused 67% of Power Outages During Summer Season
PECO said 44 percent of power outages that affected its customers this year occurred mainly during July and August, about double the monthly average....
FERC Acts to Expand Demand Response with New Measurement Standards
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission laid the groundwork for expanding the use of demand response in organized wholesale markets when it proposed standards for measuring and verifying the performance of demand response services. ...
DOE Delivers More than $354 Million for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Projects in 22 States
Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced that more than $354 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is being awarded to 22 states to support energy efficiency and conservation activities. ...
Southern California Edison Installs First of 5 Million Smart Meters
Southern California Edison kicked off its Edison SmartConnect program yesterday by installing the first of 5 million smart meters to help customers save energy and money. ...
DTE Energy to Expand Advanced Metering Program
DTE Energy will expand its advanced metering program to provide electric customers in a section of Bloomfield Township in Michigan with new meter technology that provides more accurate information about their energy usage and a system for recognizing power outages without customer input. ...
Utilities Investing More In Assistance Programs To Help Low-Income Customers
As the number of consumers who struggle to pay their energy bills has grown, utilities have expanded their services to assist their low-income customers. ...
Ameren Companies Providing Power Outage Data over Handheld Devices
Ameren companies in Illinois and Missouri are among the first electric utility companies in the nation to offer Mobile Power Outage Information, or "ameren.mobi," to their 2.4 million electric customers in Illinois and Missouri. ...
Southern California Edison Forgives Bills for Fire Victims
Southern California Edison (SCE) customers whose homes were destroyed or rendered uninhabitable by recent wildfires will not have to pay for electricity used since the last bill they received at those damaged residences....
Customers Benefit from Single-Phase Reclosing
Potential Reliability Benefits Could be Achieved Through the Implementation of single-phase reclosing and lockout in distribution feeders. However, several...
Santa Clara Issues RFP for SVP Meter Connect Program
Silicon Valley Power (SVP; Santa Clara, California, U.S.), the city of Santa Clara's municipal electric utility, has issued a request for proposals (RFP)...
California Utility to Use Distributed Energy Storage to Reduce Peak Demand
Ice Energy has announced an agreement with Redding Electric Utility to provide the California-based utility with its Ice Bear distributed energy storage system to permanently reduce peak summer electrical demand...
Top Utility Web Sites Announced
According to the latest E SOURCE benchmark results for the performance of North American utility web sites, the top-rated U.S. electric and gas web sites belong to Avista Utilities, Arizona Public Service, South Carolina Electric and Gas, Wisconsin Public Service, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Alliant Energy. ...
Ameren Illinois Utilities Work to Turn the Lights on in the Wake of Wednesday's Storms
After severe storms left about 20,000 customers without power yesterday afternoon and evening, the Ameren Illinois Utilities have restored service to about 17,000 customers...
Overall Customer Satisfaction Decreases for Texas Residential Retail Electric Providers
Wide fluctuations in electricity prices during the past year have led to a decrease in overall customer satisfaction with residential retail electric providers in Texas, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Texas Residential Retail Electric Provider Customer Satisfaction Study...
Electrical Grids in Europe Need to Be Smarter, Says NextGen Research
The electrical power infrastructure of Europe is similarly antiquated to the U.S., and needs to be upgraded if the EU is to attain its 20/20/20 goals of reducing carbon emissions by 20%, improving energy efficiency by 20% and increasing the use of renewable energy sources by 20%, all by the year 2020...
Survey: Energy Infrastructure Upgrade Needed to Meet Consumer Demand
Burson-Marsteller has released the results of the 2009 Green Power Progress Survey: A Study of Consumer Demand for Green Power Infrastructure, Renewable Energy & Technologies....
Utility Praised for Quick Response, Restoration after Hurricane Ike
As Hurricane Ike's 110-mile-per-hour winds pounded buildings, trees, and electric infrastructure in September 2008, Houston-based CenterPoint Energy braced for the aftermath with an outage operations application built on ESRI's geographic information system (GIS) technology. ...
Energy Usage on Track
Today, Consumers Use Smart Phones While on the Go, wave smart debit cards to make everyday purchases and drive smarter cars. In the electric industry,...
Honeywell's Night Shift Program Reduces Peak Cooling Demand by up to 95%
Honeywell (Minneapolis, Minnesota) has announced a $4.25 million permanent load-shifting program with Southern California Edison (SCE; Rosemead, California)...
PECO Contracts with Enspiria Solutions to Evaluate Smart Meter Technologies
PECO (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) has selected Enspiria Solutions (www.enspiria.com) to support the utility in looking at smart meter technologies....
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