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Transmission & Distribution World On Demand events allow you to access archived webinars when it is convenient for your schedule. These free events are available for viewing 24/7.

White Papers

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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Marketplace

Trip Wire

Automate NERC Cyber Security Compliance

Reports from Spain Blog

Electric Solar: Reports from Spain

January 1, 2008

Global Viewpoint

Are Your Servers Serving You?

When I Got Word, I Just had to Investigate. I heard that Sunflower Electric is upgrading its enterprise resource management and asset management systems...

Features

PG&E Begins Ambitious AMI Rollout

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has Embarked on the Largest Implementation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Technology in the United States to date....

Northeast Utilities Applies Design-Bid-Build

Chronic System Congestion in Southwest Connecticut was Reduced Significantly about a year ago, while saving ratepayers US$150 million. The Bethel-Norwalk...

Integrated Platform Eases Data Management

It is all about the Data. To Manage the Assets, the Data must be Right. To plan for system expansion, the baseline data must be right. To maintain the...

Wildlife Flourishes Along with Progressive IVM

Changing Traditional Practices Means Getting out of Your Comfort Zone. The City of Florence Utilities (Florence, Alabama, U.S.) did just that when it...

Thermal Grouts Go the Distance

Most Utilities Use Horizontal Boring or Pipe Jacking to Place Large-Diameter Steel or Polyethylene Casings Under Roadways. Utility services can then be...

Business Developments

KCP&L Named Most Reliable

After winning a regional ReliabilityOne award for 2007, Kansas City Power & Light (KCP Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) went on to win PA Consulting Group's...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

I just came across your editorial Scrap the Juggling Act (December 2007) mentioning Basex Inc.'s research on multitasking and enjoyed reading how you...

Itron Wins Prepaid Metering Contract

Actaris, a subsidiary of Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Washington, U.S.), entered into contracts in Azerbaijan for prepayment metering technology to help...

Siemens PTD and Elektrozavod Form New Company

Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD; Erlangen, Germany) has set up a second joint venture with Elektrozavod, one of the leading Russian electrical...

Bayard Group Invests in WACS

Bayard Group (Sydney, Australia), an investor in energy measurement and efficiency technologies, has taken a minority stake in WACS (Minneapolis, Minnesota,...

Technology Updates

Entergy Selects Elster's EnergyAxis Advanced Metering Infrastructure Solution

Entergy has selected Elster Integrated Solutions' (EIS) EnergyAxis Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) solution for its 3400 meter pilot in Baton Rouge,...

Midwest ISO Selects OSIsoft PI System for Monitoring and Managing Energy Market

The Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator Inc. (Midwest ISO) has implemented OSIsoft's PI System for monitoring and managing the Midwest Energy...

Utility to Deploy 22,000 Advanced Meters in Two Years

Lexington Electric (Lexington, Tennessee, U.S.) has begun an initiative to deploy the TS2 advanced metering solution from Cellnet+Hunt to 22,000 meters...

AREVA T&D to Help Reinforce the Libyan Electricity Network

AREVA's Transmission and Distribution division has signed three contracts totaling 300 million euros with GECOL, the Libyan public utility. The first...

SVC Stabilizes High-Voltage Transmission Network in Denmark

The Static Var Compensator (SVC) built by Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD; Erlangen, Germany) in Radsted on the island of Lolland, on...

Quarterly Report

The Needs of the Bulk Power System

In Addition to Setting and Enforcing Reliability Standards, part of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation's (NERC) role is to assess the...

Characters with Character

A Natural Fit

Intelligent, Skilled and Resourceful are Words that not Only Describe Rick Harness, but also the birds of prey, such as falcons, eagles and hawks, he...

Electric Utility Operations

Ralph Bowersock

Born July 23, 1949, in Worthington, Indiana. Married to Patty for 26 years and has five children: Ralph Bowersock, Jr., Sherry Mayden, Michalina Peterson,...

Reduce Hazards When Working in Ice Storms

Ice-covered tree limbs crashed onto power lines in the Midwest in early December 2007, leaving a million homes and businesses without power, according...

Inductive-Mode Locating Works at Cellular Site

Experts estimate that there are as many as 150,000 cellular sites in the continental United States. Each is equipped with special transmitters, antennas...

Lineman Preserves History of the Trade

Linemen flipped through a book of antique photographs and examined tools from the yesteryear at the 2007 International Lineman's Rodeo Expo in October....

Products and Services

PRODUCTS & Services

Handheld Vibration Spectrum Analyzer Datastick Systems' VSA-1225 Vibration Spectrum Analyzer is the company's first product on the Windows Mobile/Pocket...

Straight Talk

Wind Design Loads

I have to Get Something off My Chest. I've managed to work myself up over the issue of maximum wind loading for the design of transmission lines, and...

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Community

Connecting Solar to the Grid

Electric Solar: Reports from Spain
Rick is joining a U.S. contingent traveling with the Solar Electric Power Association to tour large-scale grid connected solar installations in Southern Spain. Check out Rick’s daily blog and experience the world of solar that is in the here and now.
Read Rick’s Blog, Electric Solar: Reports from Spain

News Releases

Briefing Room

At the Briefing Room you will be able to stay up-to-date on the latest technology announcements where we will provide daily postings from our industry sources.

Webcasts

Transmission & Distribution World On Demand events allow you to access archived webinars when it is convenient for your schedule. These free events are available for viewing 24/7.

ACSS and HS285 Extend Grid Capacity

Sponsored by Southwire

There are capacity bottleneck situations, where new overhead transmission line construction is not a practical reality. In some of these situations overhead lines are in place and they are not able to provide the transfer capacity needed.

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Supercondutor Cable Systems

Sponsored by American Superconductor

Transmission & Distribution World presents Superconductor Cable Systems, A Part of the Increasing Bulk Power Transfer Series.

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