FERC Approves New Reliability Standards for Cyber Security
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved eight new mandatory critical infrastructure protection (CIP) reliability standards to protect the nation’s bulk power system against potential disruptions from cyber security breaches...
Duke Energy Denies Allegations in Contract Lawsuit
Duke Energy has issued the following statement in regard to a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court yesterday alleging that the company and certain affiliates conspired through various transactions to set inequitable utility prices to the detriment of the complaining customers: ...
PECO Reports Improved Reliability in 2007
PECO said it kept the lights on more reliably for its customers in 2007, and the average outage was much shorter than the previous year, too. ...
Brazil Has No Risk of Energy Blackout, President Says
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that the country would not have the risk of an energy blackout like the one that led to rationing for citizens in 2001....
Edison Electric Institute Honors Electric Utilities with Emergency Recovery, Assistance Awards
The Edison Electric Institute last week honored 14 electric utilities for their outstanding efforts to restore electric service or assist other utilities in restoring service following major storms or other natural events during 2007....
ComEd Earns National Award for Outstanding Emergency Response During August's 'Storm of the Decade'
The Edison Electric Institute today honored ComEd with the association's "Emergency Recovery Award" for outstanding efforts to restore power following last year's multi-front storm system that resulted in the worst damage to ComEd's electrical system in a decade. ...
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Restores Power to Thousands More Customers Despite New Storms
As a new set of winter storms sweep through Northern California, more than 700 utility crews continue to work around the clock to restore service to Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers and repair damage to electrical equipment...
Missouri Commission to Investigate Utilities' Storm Restoration Efforts
The Missouri Public Service Commission has directed the PSC staff to investigate the effectiveness of Aquila, Inc.’s, Empire Electric District's and AmerenUE's storm preparations and power restoration efforts following a severe ice storm that struck Missouri. “In December 2007, many electric utility customers in Missouri suffered extended electric power outages as the result ...
China Adds 85 Million kW of Power Capacity in 11 Months
China added 85 million kilowatts of power generating capacity from January to November this year to fuel its double-digit economic growth, according to the China Electricity Council (CEC). ...
Entergy Selects Elster's EnergyAxis Advanced Metering Infrastructure Solution
Entergy has selected Elster Integrated Solutions' (EIS) EnergyAxis Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) solution for its 3400 meter pilot in Baton Rouge,...
Utility to Deploy 22,000 Advanced Meters in Two Years
Lexington Electric (Lexington, Tennessee, U.S.) has begun an initiative to deploy the TS2 advanced metering solution from Cellnet+Hunt to 22,000 meters...
PG&E Begins Ambitious AMI Rollout
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has Embarked on the Largest Implementation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Technology in the United States to date....
The Needs of the Bulk Power System
In Addition to Setting and Enforcing Reliability Standards, part of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation's (NERC) role is to assess the...
KCP&L Named Most Reliable
After winning a regional ReliabilityOne award for 2007, Kansas City Power & Light (KCP Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) went on to win PA Consulting Group's...
Survey Shows Strong Support for Electricity Competition in Maryland
A new survey by the Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA), indicates that Maryland residential electricity consumers favor policies that promote competition and choice of suppliers in Maryland's electricity market....
'Smart Metering' to Experience a 24% Annual Growth Rate Through 2013
"Smart” metering – the remote management of utility meters by means of two-way communication with the utility – is on the cusp of some fairly significant growth, according to a new study from ABI Research. ...
High Winds Knock Out Power to Thousands in California
After the Los Angeles Department of Power and Water restored power to almost 14,000 customers who lost power during the night, continued high winds knocked out power to an additional 5,000 LADWP customers this morning. ...
PG&E Seeks to Upgrade SmartMeter Technology to Enhance Customer, Operational Benefits
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is seeking approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to begin installing next-generation high-tech electric meters during the next phase of its ongoing SmartMeter program...
Report: States Falling Short on Interconnection and Net Metering
A new report concludes that all 50 states are failing to provide easy access to the electrical grid for home-grown renewable energy systems, while only four states are doing their best to assure that the owners of such systems earn credit for power fed into the grid. ...
FERC Approves 3 Planning and Operating Reliability Standards
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today approved three reliability standards to further ensure the reliability of the nation’s bulk power electricity market. ...
Reliability Outlook for Ontario Positive
The outlook for Ontario's electricity system is positive said the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) in two new reports ...
Coalition: Ontario Should Abandon Time-of-Use Meters
The Ontario government would be doing consumers a favour if it were to follow the example of Hydro Quebec and abandon its plan to install so-called smart meters in all homes in the province, says the Ontario Electricity Coalition. ...
Ice Storm Sets New Record for OG&E Customer Outages
OGE Energy Corp. said that its OG&E utility subsidiary is restoring service to more than 300,000 customers who lost power following the Oklahoma ice storm of Dec. 8-10, a new record outage total for the company in a single storm. ...
SAP Unveils New Version of Customer Relationship Management Software
SAP AG has introduced a new version of SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), a component of the SAP Business Suite....
Japan’s Diamond Power Uses Itron’s IEE Customer Care
Itron has announced a multiple-year contract with Diamond Power to host a Japanese language-enabled version of its Itron Enterprise Edition Customer Care solution. ...
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