PECO Crews Respond to Violent Spring Storm
PECO crews continue to restore electric customers to service as the spring’s first strong wind and rainstorm knocked out service to more than 50,000 electric customers. ...
Texas Pilot Project Offers Insight into Impact of Electricity Deregulation
A pilot effort by six Texas communities to bring lower electricity rates to residents received a lukewarm response from electricity providers, demonstrating how deregulation and current state law is not benefiting all Texans....
PJM Regional Power Grid Ready for Hot Weather Power Demand
Power supplies should be adequate this summer in the PJM Interconnection, the nation's largest power grid, which manages the power supply for all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia....
CenterPoint Energy Files to Deploy Up to 250,000 Interactive Meters
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.'s electric transmission and distribution subsidiary, CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, has filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas an Advanced Metering System (AMS) initial deployment plan. ...
BPL Global Expands Broadband Over Power Lines in Caracas
BPL Global, Ltd.'s BPL implementation in Caracas, Venezuela, has been deemed successful by La Nueva Electricidad de Caracas (EDC). ...
Ontario Implements Demand Response
Constellation NewEnergy, a subsidiary of Constellation Energy, now offers its NewResponse demand-response program to commercial, industrial and governmental...
Early Automation Efforts Seek Reliability Results
Customer Satisfaction Will Remain High if we minimize the number and duration of outages a customer experiences. To continue already high customer-satisfaction...
Siemens and eMeter Partner in Meter Data Management Sector
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany) and eMeter Corp. (San Mateo, California, U.S.) have partnered to market the Energy IP management software for processing...
Caracus, Venezuela, Experiences Power Failure
A power outage left at least 40 percent of Venezuela without electricity on Tuesday, including much of Caracas...
New England Predicts Potential Record-Breaking Electricity Use
Despite the potential for record-breaking electricity use, power supplies should be sufficient to meet consumer demand in New England this summer, according to ISO New England Inc., the operator of the region's bulk power system and wholesale electricity markets...
California ISO Assessment: Conservation, Demand Response Will be Called On
California should have enough power to keep the lights on and air conditioners humming this summer although there will likely be days--especially in Southern California--when conservation and voluntary demand response programs will be called on to ease the strain on the power grid....
Missouri Commission Approves Electric Service Reliability Rules
The Missouri Public Service Commission, on a vote of 3-1, has adopted final rules designed to increase electric service reliability for customers of the four investor-owned utilities in Missouri. ...
FERC Proposes Reliability Standards, Adopts Penalty Notice Policy for Violations
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today further refined its electric reliability program by adopting administrative policy for FERC review of notices of penalty filed by the Commission-certified electric reliability organization (ERO), and by proposing to adopt six modified reliability standards from the ERO. ...
Florida Utility to Stage Mock Disaster
In an effort to test the response time and operational readiness of its personnel, Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA) conducted a full-scale mock disaster exercise on April 8....
Study: Reducing Voltage Helps Utilities Lower Costs
Reducing the voltage on power distribution can continue meeting consumer expectations while saving energy for both the customer and the utility, according to a recent study performed by R. W. Beck. ...
Power by the Hour
We Use Many Names and Acronyms to Describe the Simple-Yet-Powerful Tool Called Demand-Side Management. It is not uncommon to find demand management, demand-side...
CSU Hits Metering Project Milestone
Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU; Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.), a community-owned utility serving customers in Colorado Springs and the surrounding...
PG&E Selects Aclara RF Electric Devices for SmartMeter Program
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG San Francisco, California, U.S.) has selected the STAR Network system from Aclara RF Systems Inc. (formerly Hexagram),...
Lake Country Power Deploys Automated Metering Infrastructure
Lake Country Power of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, U.S., has successfully deployed a full two-way automated metering infrastructure (AMI) to its entire service...
Integration of Variable Generation
As Part of Our Continual Assessment of Bulk Power System Reliability as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), we've identified a...
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