IS&A In-Depth Archive
Report: Automated Meter Reading Growth Slows in 2007 But Resurgence Is on Horizon
The percentage of utilities planning installations of advanced metering systems doubled in 2007, according to Chartwell's latest state-of-the-industry automated meter reading (AMR) survey and report. ...
Garland Enhances Customer Service
The City of Garland, the third largest municipal utility in the state of Texas, has successfully implemented the Ventyx's (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.) latest...
Automated Switching Benefits Customers
In November 2006, the city of Naperville's automation system was put to a severe test. A vehicle collided with a transmission pole, knocking out a vital...
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...
Customers Access Online Outage Data
For Florida, 2004 will go down in history as the year of the hurricanes. An unprecedented number of hurricanes took direct aim at Florida and ravaged...
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...
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...
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...
A Career Tracks Ahead
Innovation. Automation. Integration. To the average person, these words may appear unrelated. Glenn Pritchard, a project manager on Exelon's Meter Reading...
InfraSource Technology and Enspiria Solutions Form Strategic Alliance
In the midst of some massive investments taking place in the utility industry, InfraSource Technology (Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.) and Enspiria Solutions...
The Bulk Power Grid Seeks Intelligent Operation
Much of the developed world's transmission grid is approaching the end of its design life and is subject to headline-grabbing failures. ...
Massive Automation Initiative
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is undertaking an ambitious substation automation (SA) project in 179 substations, as part of its...
Cooper Power Adds Automation Capability with Purchase of Cannon Technologies
Looking to develop an automation business unit, Cooper Power Systems (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.) explored various companies, and ultimately found Cannon...
One Pot of Money for Many Projects
In an effort to maximize reliability and minimize cost, the importance of prioritizing capital expenditures related to system improvements and additions...
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...
Telkonet to Deliver Broadband to Ameren Customers in the Midwest
Telkonet Inc. (Germantown, Maryland, U.S.) has partnered with Ameren Energy Communications and River City Internet Group (RCIG; Creve Coeur, Missouri,...
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...
From Paper to Pixels
Technology has impacted everything we do every day. One of the more overlooked impacts of technology in the T&D industry is how transmission lines are...
AMR Improves Outage Management
Outage management is typically not one of the first considerations in a utility's selection of automated meter reading (AMR) technology. The primary drivers...
On the Road to Intelligent Distribution
Duke Energy-Carolinas has embarked on a major initiative to improve the visibility and control of its distribution system. Known as the Remote Operation...
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...
Control Buildings To Go
The concept of modular, protections, automation and control(MPAC) buildings is to provide highly integrated, well-engineered, preassembled control buildings...
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...
CIGRE Presents 41ST Biennial Session
Major structural changes in the last two decades have caused utilities worldwide to move away from state-regulated status to private enterprises, causing...