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...
