Forum Examines Cyber Security
A group of industrial automation, control systems and SCADA vendors, along with the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) of the U.S. Department of...
Bangladesh Implements Electricity Rationing to Cope with Power Crisis
The Bangladeshi government will implement "electricity rationing" starting from Sunday to cope with the ongoing power crisis, according to a government order issued on Sunday. ...
Report: Technology Set to Revolutionize Energy Use, Marketplace
The hottest sector in the technology market over the next decade will be products that make reducing power bills and conserving energy as easy as managing cell phone minutes, a report released by the Galvin Electricity Initiative found...
FirstEnergy Reports 2006 Reliability Improvements
Significant progress was made during 2006 to enhance service reliability for customers of FirstEnergy Corp.'s Pennsylvania utilities...
Xcel Energy Expands Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program
Cellnet Technology Inc. (Alpharetta, Georgia, U.S.) has executed a major expansion with longstanding customer Xcel Energy (Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.)....
Communications Link Customers with Utilities
Customers measure the service received from their utility by its ability to respond to problems. ...
Toronto Hydro-Electric Meet Smart Metering Needs with EnergyAxis System
Toronto Hydro-Electric System is expanding the Energy-Axis System that it began testing in 2004. Toronto Hydro-Electric System selected Elster Electricity's...
SCE Approaches Massive AMI Rollout
Southern California Edison envisions an advanced metering system that brings customer-usage data into the digital central nervous system of its power...
Electricity Token Meters: Suppliers Respond to Ofgem's Call for Action
Three energy suppliers npower, ScottishPower and Powergen have promised to do more to avoid plunging customers into debt, after action by energy regulator...
Dominican Republic's Edesur to Install DCSI's AMI at 100% of its C/I Sites
Empresa Distribuidora de Electricidad del Sur (Edesur; Dominican Republic) has awarded Distribution Control Systems Inc. (DCSI; St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.)...
Unconventional Solutions For Rural Utilities
Improving service quality to rural areas is challenging due to the high cost of traditional improvements with only marginal benefits to customers. National...
Emergency Outages Widespread Among Utilities
According to an online survey conducted among 100 storm personnel from 45 utilities, 87% of the utilities face a large-scale emergency situation at least...
Prolonged Drought Leads to Power Shortages in Kenya
A prolonged drought in Kenya has been causing severe power shortages across the nation. Nearly 75% of Kenya's electricity is generated by hydropower from...
SCE Honored for AMR Initiative
The Utility Planning Network, a membership-based peer group of utility professionals worldwide that facilitates the annual Metering Awards Program, has...
Tracking Down Power-Quality Problems
If there is one thing constant about distribution systems, it is that they are always changing. Customers acquire more electric equipment. New accounts...
PG&E Goes Live with SPL Software
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG San Francisco, California, U.S.) has upgraded to SPL's Customer Care & Billing (CC&B) software. It also replaced its existing...
Co-Op Enjoys Big AMR Benefits
South Central Power began it's automated meter reading (amr) project 1999. The project focused on two specific AMR devices, one was the early phone-based...
New Zealand Examines Blackout
After the major power outage that occurred in Auckland, New Zealand, in June 2006, Transpower, the owner and operator of the national grid, is striving...
JEA to Migrate to SPL's Customer Care and Billing Solution
JEA (Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.) has chosen to migrate from the PeopleSoft CIS (customer information system), an earlier SPL CIS product, to SPL's Customer...
Customers Access Outage Map
When the power goes out, Nashville Electric Service (NES; Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.) customers turn to the Internet to access the utility's newly developed,...
Ontario Embraces Smart Metering
The Ministry of Energy of Ontario has indicated that the pending retirement of coal plants combined with the natural overall growth in the demand for...
TXU Electric Delivery Flips The Reliability Switch
In an effort to provide industry-leading customer service , TXU Electric delivery (Dallas, Texas, U.S.) has set an objective for achieving top-decile performance...
Wake Forest Deploys TS2 AMI
The Town of Wake Forest, North Carolina, U.S., is installing Hunt Technologies' TS2 AMI system to provide advanced two-way communications for the 6000...
PG&E Reacts Favorably to SmartMeter Proposed Decision
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG San Francisco, California, U.S.) reacted favorably to a proposed decision before the California Public Utilities Commission...
Embracing Customers
Nowadays, we're all feeling the crunch of soaring energy costs at the gas pump, in our homes and even in the cost of doing business each day. In many...
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