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Moving Toward Utility-Scale Deployment of Dynamic Pricing in Mass Markets

Prior studies have shown that dynamic pricing can provide numerous benefits to utilities and customers alike.

A Deployment Strategy for the Smart Grid: From the Generator to the Refrigerator

This white paper describes a coordinated, prioritized and customer-based development strategy for utilities considering the Smart Grid initiative.

A Guide to Transformer Winding Resistance Measurements

Matz Ohlen and Peter Werelius of Megger discuss the unique method of winding resistance measurements in transformers and how they are a fundamental importance to detecting potential mechanical and electrical problems that other methods are unable to detect the field.

Smart Metering for Water Utilities

Should water utilities replace current consumption meters with “smart metering” systems that provide more information to both utilities and customers? This question is being hotly debated in today’s electric utility industry but currently appears to be of less interest in the water industry.

Gene Kim's Practical Steps to Achieve and Maintain NERC Compliance

Gene Kim, CTO of Tripwire, describes seven practical steps owners and operators of the bulk power system can take to meet the mandatory NERC-CIP standards, helping them avoid huge fines for non-compliance and protect North America’s bulk power system.

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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...

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