Echelon Electricity Meter Receives Measurement Canada Approval
Echelon Corp. has announced that its Networked Energy Services smart meter has received certification from Measurement Canada...
AmerenUE Brings in 640 Lineworkers to Assist with Mid-Missouri Power Restoration
AmerenUE has brought in 640 lineworkers from outside the area to assist central Missouri crews with power restoration following the recent ice storm. ...
Progress Energy Sending Crews to Oklahoma to Assist in Ice Storm Restoration
Progress Energy Carolinas is deploying more than 160 line and service personnel and other contract line and tree crews to assist an Oklahoma utility in restoring electric service in the wake of recent storms have dumped more than two inches of ice. ...
Oncor Sends Crews North to Assist OG&E
Oncor is responding to a request from Oklahoma Gas & Electric to help restore power following a devastating ice storm, leaving 220,000 Oklahoma residents without power. ...
Ameren Illinois Utilities Work to Restore Service in Jacksonville and Other Central Illinois Communities
The Ameren Illinois utilities have assigned nearly 150 Ameren employees as well as more than 270 workers from other contracting companies to restore electrical service in Jacksonville and other Central and West Central Illinois communities. ...
ComEd Improves Service Requests
ComEd invested heavily in 2007 to improve service to customers seeking a new electrical connection or a change in service, and homebuilders, commercial...
Utility Deploys Advanced Metering Infrastructure System in Four Months
In an industry where advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) deployments can take as long as two years, the ability to successfully implement a full system...
Rocky Mountain Power's New Light on Flicker
Has your Utility ever been Challenged by an Industrial Customer when Measuring Voltage Fluctuation and Light Flicker? How did your utility handle it?...
ETSA Utilities in Australia to Enhance Supply Reliability
ETSA Utilities has begun an early summer preparation program to enhance supply reliability for its 782,000 customers as South Australia moves into an early bushfire alert....
Report: Automated Meter Reading Growth Slows in 2007 But Resurgence Is on Horizon
The percentage of utilities planning installations of advanced metering systems doubled in 2007, according to Chartwell's latest state-of-the-industry automated meter reading (AMR) survey and report. ...
Study: Consumers Worldwide Would Switch to Energy Providers That Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Nearly nine out of 10 consumers worldwide said they would switch to energy providers that offer products and services that help reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study on climate change released last month by Accenture....
Allegheny Power Seeks Pennsylvania Authorization for Wind Energy Program
Allegheny Power has filed an application with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to offer a voluntary wind energy program to its customers in the state...
Atlantic City Electric Unveils Plan to Lower Energy Use, Improve Reliability, Protect Environment
Atlantic City Electric has proposed an ambitious program for investing in innovative technologies and new measures that will help its customers manage their energy use, reduce the total cost of energy and help protect the environment...
FERC Acts to Improve Transmission Reliability, Lower Power Costs
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has acted to improve reliability of the interstate transmission system by approving requests for transmission investment incentives for new grid construction...
Consumers Energy Developing High-Tech Meter System As Part of $6 Billion Plan to Invest in Reliability
Consumers Energy is developing a high-tech meter system as part of its five- year plan to invest $6 billion in energy reliability and customer service in Michigan. ...
Electricity Projected to be Reliable throughout North America in Coming Winter Season
The outlook for electricity reliability for the coming winter season is good, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) announced in its annual 2007/2008 Winter Reliability Assessment. ...
SDG&E Completes Service Restoration to All Fire-Impacted Customers
San Diego Gas & Electric officials yesterday announced they had restored electrical service to all customers who experienced outages related to last month’s wildfires. ...
NYSEG and RG&E Continue Work on Advanced Metering Plans
While continuing to work with the New York Public Service Commission to secure approval in December 2007 for the deployment of advanced electric and natural gas meters, NYSEG and RG&E, which are subsidiaries of Energy East Corp., are completing a rigorous analysis of proposals from vendors to install a sophisticated system of advanced meters and a data management center. ...
Commission Cites Con Edison’s Reliability
The New York State Public Service Commission has ordered that Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. provide $18 million for the benefit of ratepayers after the company failed to meet certain reliability threshold targets for interruption frequency and duration in its network and radial systems....
Wireless Sensor Networking Energizes the Utility Market
Driven by new regulation, a global energy crisis, advanced metering with embedded wireless sensor networks has grown from a few thousand units in 2004 to 1.5 million smart meters this year, according to ON World. ...
IEEE Updates Gold Book Reliability Standard
Reliability is a critical issue in industrial and commercial power distribution systems. ...
Demand-Response Efforts Grow
Demand-response and advanced-metering programs have grown significantly over the past year, according to a recent report by the Federal Energy Regulatory...
Garland Enhances Customer Service
The City of Garland, the third largest municipal utility in the state of Texas, has successfully implemented the Ventyx's (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.) latest...
SDG&E Expects 97% of Fire-Impacted Customers Restored by Nov. 4
San Diego Gas & Electric officials said they have completed most of their damage assessments from the devastating Southern California wildfires and now expect to restore service to 97% of impacted customers by this weekend. ...
Kentucky Commission to Require More Data on Electric Reliability
Electric utilities in Kentucky are being told to provide the Kentucky Public Service Commission with more detailed information about the reliability of their distribution systems....
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