Progress Energy Taps Plexus Research to Assist in Major Mobile Meter-Reading Procurement
Progress Energy of Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., has selected Plexus Research (Boxborough, Massachusetts, U.S.) to assist the utility in acquiring a...
Focus on Efficiency
The editorial staff of Transmission & Distribution World along with ITRON convened a panel of industry experts to discuss the issues facing the power...
City of Anaheim Employs ArcFM and SAGE-FEI
The City of Anaheim Public Utilities Department (PUD; Anaheim, California, U.S.) is in production with Miner & Miner's (M Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.)...
Rural Utility Meets Current and Future Demands With Automated IMS Reliability Reporting
Utilities around the United States are under increased pressure to improve their processes for capturing customer interruption data. These data are used...
Colombia Utility Upgrades FRAMME-Based GMS Technology
Intergraph Corp. (Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.) announced in June that Empresas Publicas de Medellin E.S.P. (EEPPM), Colombia's multi-utility company, is...
PacifiCorp Sees Significant Gains with SPL MWM
SPL WorldGroup Inc. has released a case study today that demonstrates PacifiCorp increased metering field operations by 20% using SPL Mobile Workforce...
Tekla Xpower Extends Coverage Throughout Latvia
Latvia's national energy company, Latvenergo, has ordered an expansion of the Xpower network information system from Tekla (Espoo, Finland). After the...
BGE Links Service, Technology and Value For Customers
At Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE), we follow a continuous improvement concept that focuses on a single key service question: How can we improve customer...
Collaborative Field Inventory Yields Benefits for Utilities
In the Commonwealth of Virginia, Dominion and Verizon share thousands of utility poles in their combined service territories in an effort to reduce the...
At MISO, Emergency Drills Mean Communications
The extensive blackout of Aug. 14, 2003, reawakened a somewhat sleeping industry to the importance of emergency response and system restoration, heightening...
Georgia Power Forecasts Severe Weather
Georgia Power (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.) is monitoring weather closely to predict and plan for storms that might affect its system. Through a website developed...
KCP&L Awards Contract to Intergraph for Mobile Workforce Management
Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions (Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.) announced that Kansas City Power and Light (KCP Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) has...
City of Hamilton Implements ArcFM
The City of Hamilton, Ohio, U.S., a municipal utility serving 27,000 electric, gas, water, wastewater and public-safety customers, moved to ESRI's ArcGIS...
NSTAR Streamlines Work With MDSI's Advantex r7
NSTAR (Westwood, Massachusetts, U.S.) has selected Advantex r7 software by MDSI Mobile Data Solutions (Richmond, British Columbia, Canada) to manage service,...
har*GIS Announces Distribution Asset Maintenance Application
har*GIS Field Information Systems (Centennial, Colorado, U.S.) has released a software application that increases efficiencies in the maintenance of distribution...
Energy-Efficiency Measures Alleviate T&D Constraints
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that the cost to upgrade transmission and distribution to relieve constrained lines and meet growing...
TXU Energy Maps Corridors Using Fixed-Wing LiDAR Technology
TXU Energy (Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.) will use fixed-wing LiDAR technology to map 400-ft (122-m)-wide corridors for more than 450 miles (724 km) of its...
Line Loading and Clearance Calculations Improved
Georgia Power Co., a subsidiary of Southern Compnay, has seen its workforce change as a result of downsizing and retirements; therefore, the background...
Quick Restoration Remains A Top Priority at NSTAR
NSTAR Electric and Gas has been making changes in its approach to managing system and customer outages. We will not keep our customers in the dark literally...
Barrie Hydro Selects LiveTime Help Desk to Manage IT Service and Support
LiveTime Help Desk, a Web-based help desk management tool, has been deployed to manage the support of all information technology (IT) systems and infrastructure...
Salt River Project Moves Forward with Production-Scale Rollout of EnergyAxis System
Elster Electricity, LLC (Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.) announces that the Salt River Project Agricultural and Improvement Power District (SRP; Phoenix,...
Kentucky Utility Fires Up Its First SCADA System
A major substation fire underscored in dramatic fashion the need for a SCADA system at the Frankfort Electric and Water Plant Board (FEWPB). An internal...
Czech Electric Distribution Utility Migrates to ArcFM
ZCE, a regional Czech energy and distribution company, completed migration from ArcInfo 7 to ArcFM 8.3 within one year. The new solution provides enhanced...
PacifiCorp Selects KWI to Support Expanding ETRM
PacifiCorp (Portland, Oregon, U.S.) has contracted with KWI (Houston, Texas, U.S.) to upgrade its energy trading and risk management (ETRM) system to...
Grayson-Collin Electric Cooperative Installs StakeOut to Manage Growth
Grayson-Collin Electric Cooperative (Van Alstyne, Texas, U.S.) has purchased MiniMax Corp.'s StakeOut to manage and control its work-order process. We...
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