Cooper Power Systems to Supply PG&E with Demand Management Solution
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG San Francisco, California, U.S.) has selected Cooper Power Systems (Houston, Texas, U.S.; www.cooperpower.com), a division...
DOE Selects ACS's Smart Grid Simulator
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Modern Grid Initiative (MGI) has licensed Advanced Control Systems Inc.'s...
Better Than Perfect
No topic is more important to our future than the proper management of the power-delivery assets that generate the revenues that provide our livelihoods....
Embedded Intelligence
When a transmission line trips, the operations center knows about it immediately. Power is quickly rerouted through other lines by remote switching and...
Critical Connections
Would you like to use automation in your electric distribution business, to maximize customer service, minimize outages and their duration, and to get...
The Road to Asset Allocations
Utilities are being squeezed on all sides to perform better. They are pounded by regulators, hounded by special interest groups and bound by customer...
Exelon Energy Delivery Selects CGI to Automate Field Operations
Exelon Energy Delivery (EED), a unit of Exelon Corp., has selected CGI Group Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.cgi.com), a provider of utility solutions...
Salt River Project Reaches Benchmark in EnergyAxis System Expansion
Elster Electricity, LLC (www.elsterelectricity.com) announces that the Salt River Project Agricultural and Improvement Power District in Phoenix, Arizona,...
Valley Electric Association Conducts Energy Conservation Pilot
Distribution Control Systems Inc. (DCSI; St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.; www.twacs.com), a subsidiary of ESCO Technologies Inc., announces that its TWACS two-way...
Endesa Project Included in CENIT Programme Network Intelligence, Control
An announcement was made yesterday that the board of the Ministry for Industry’s Industrial Technological Development Centre (CDTI for its initials in Spanish) has included an Endesa-led project in the second edition of the CENIT Programme. ...
DOE Focuses on Cyber SECURITY
The potential for vulnerabilities in the electronic systems that monitor and control our energy infrastructure has increased steadily since the mid-1990s....
Utility Embraces Off-the-Shelf Software
Salt River Project is undertaking an enterprise-wide work and asset management initiative to standardize and consolidate work processes, data and information...
The Intelligent Utility An Alternate Reality
The intelligent grid is receiving much press from the vendor community. One concept of an intelligent grid hinges on a super network connecting the national...
PJM Awards AREVA T&D Market Settlements System
PJM Interconnection (Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S.) has awarded AREVA T&D (Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.) a contract to implement its new Market Settlements...
Advanced Control of Distribution Circuits
Today, the electric industry has a full toolbox available to provide highly advanced technological solutions to the problems facing the distribution network. ...
Mobile Technologies Keep Linemen in the Loop
Maintaining a constant line of communication is a vital part of electric utility field operations. This is especially true in the work of linemen. Every...
Utility Develops an Economy GIS Solution
Most U.S. electric utility companies were born before 1903. ITCTransmission (Novi, Michigan, U.S.) wasn't born until March 2003, when DTE Energy (Detroit,...
InfoShare Across the Enterprise
More than a decade ago, Kansas City Power & Light(KCP&L) began a major initiative to improve customer service and enhance operational efficiency by automating...
Geokosmos Completes 3-D Mapping Project in Andalusia
Geokosmos, a Moscow-based air survey company, has completed a 3-D mapping project using up-to-date digital technologies in Andalusia, an autonomous region...
Blackout: Shocked Into Action
The blackout on August 14, 2003, was the largest in US history. It started with a line going out in Ohio. It affected eight U.S. states and one Canadian...
Energy Central
In March 2006, Hawaiian Electric Co. Inc went live with its new US $23 million dispatch center and energy management system (EMS). The project involved...
Forced to Backfeed
At 12:40 P.M. on Tuesday, May 30, 2006, Western Power was faced with an unplanned outage at its Clarence Street (CL) Substation located in an inner suburb...
Austin Energy Takes Laptops to the Field
Austin Energy is a community-owned electric utility and a department of the City of Austin, Texas, serving 366,161 customer accounts out of a population...
Working Seamlessly
We've all heard the statement, if you don't know where you are headed any road will do. This applies to all projects and especially to investments in...
Telvent Upgrades Technology Infrastructure for Venezuela's Main Electricity Company
Telvent (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) has signed a contract with Venezuela's main electricity company, Compaa Annima de Administracin y Fomento Elctrico...
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