Keep Our Assets Healthy
Worldwide, Most Utilities have Created Asset Management Organizations over the past 5 to 10 years with the goal of better investing in building and maintaining...
Mobile GIS Improves Productivity in the Field
Linemen today log on to laptops in their trucks to view digital maps and pinpoint locations on the transmission grid. Rather than relying on paper-based...
Allegheny Power Modernizing Power Grid
Allegheny Power is contracting Augusta Systems for an electricity grid modernization project. ...
City of Anaheim Deploys Advanced Control Systems Outage Management System in Support of Smart-Grid Strategy
The City of Anaheim Public Utilities (Anaheim, California, U.S.) has completed the production deployment of the Advanced Control Systems' (ACS; Atlanta,...
Psymetrix Receives Transpower Contract
Transpower New Zealand Ltd. has awarded Psymetrix Ltd. (Edinburgh, Scotland) a contract for the supply of its StormMinder power dynamics management (PDM)...
Kenya to Upgrade SCADA Control System
ABB has signed a $25 million contract with Kenya Power & Lighting Co (KPLC) to upgrade and expand the system that controls Kenya's power transmission network and the distribution network in the capital city of Nairobi. ...
UTC: Utilities Should Be Working Now on NERC CIP Compliance
Many utilities have taken steps to comply with new North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards aimed at protecting the electric power grid from cyber attack, but few utilities are CIP-compliant, and there is much work to be done. ...
Field Inspection Data Goes Mainstream
Tucson Electric Power used to record line inspection data on paper patrol sheets. If there were not any problems, the sheets were simply filed away for...
SCADA/EMS Improvements to Power Quality in Kenya
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) has signed a $25 million contract with Kenya Power & Lighting Co. (KPLC) to upgrade and expand the system that controls Kenya's...
ENEE Recovers Revenue in Honduras with Elster's EnergyAxis System
Empresa Nacional de Energia Electrica (ENEE) is realizing significant cost savings and revenue recovery since it inaugurated Elster Electricity's EnergyAxis...
Southern Selects Siemens PTD's EMS
Southern Company (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.) has selected Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution Inc.'s (Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.) Spectrum Power...
SEC Manages Mobile Workforce
Virginia is the seventh fastest growing state and its burgeoning population is having an impact on the power supply. During the past five years, Southside...
Creating a Smart Grid
SMART GRID IS A HOT TOPIC IN THE UTILITY BUSINESS TODAY. All of the industry's stakeholders are interested in this subject and involved at some level....
Targeted Mitigation Improves Reliability
Lightning, or the related cause of equipment failure after a lightning storm, has been found to be the cause of many distribution-system interruptions...
Panamanian Electric Company to Upgrade Distribution Infrastructure
Elektra Noreste S.A., a Panamanian electricity company, has contracted with Telvent to upgrade Elektra Noreste's electricity management systems ...
ComEd Reports Monitoring Success
On-line transformer monitoring has been in use for several years with good success at the ComEd division of Exelon Corp. The key to capturing all the...
Consider the True Cost Of Transformer Losses
Renewables are the preferred energies to fit the demand in the liberalized generation market in Spain. In particular, wind, solar and hydro benefit from...
ConsumerPowerline Leads Effort to Protect City's Energy Grid
Energy is the lifeblood of New York City, and over the past few summers, there have been major power outages that, in the broiling heat, have stopped...
OSIsoft, Enspiria Solutions Form Alliance to Provide Real-Time Reliability and Asset Management Solutions
Enspiria Solutions (Denver, Colorado, U.S.) and OSIsoft Inc. (San Leandro, California, U.S.) have partnered to provide PI System integration services...
Ventyx Solution Optimizes Field Workforce Management
Utilities across the board strive to maximize worker productivity and reduce costs. Streamlining workforce management processes is one solution that can...
OneGIS Implements GIS for Dyersburg Electric System
OneGIS (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.) has completed its work on a geographic information system (GIS) for the city of Dyersburg, Tennessee, U.S., with the installation...
Ventyx Solution Optimizes Field Workforce Management
Utilities across the board strive to maximize worker productivity and reduce costs. Streamlining workforce management processes is one solution that can...
Edison Int'l Chairman: Smart Grid Technologies Could Prevent Cascading Regional Blackouts
In testimony before a U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Subcommittee, Edison International Chairman John E. Bryson predicted a new grid management technology pioneered by the company's utility, Southern California Edison, could one day help prevent regional power blackouts such as the Northeast blackout of August 2003 that affected 50 million utility customers in eight states and Canada....
Oracle Buys Lodestar in Quest to Create Complete Utility Application Suite
Software giant Oracle (Redwood Shores, California, U.S.; www.oracle.com) has agreed to acquire Lodestar Corp. (Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S.), a provider...
CenterPoint Taps IBM to Help Build Intelligent Network
CenterPoint Energy (CNP; Houston, Texas, U.S.) is working with IBM (Armonk, New York, U.S.) to create an intelligent utility network (IUN). Built using...
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