June 1, 2008
Global Viewpoint
Let There Be Light
Our Energy Future is in Flux Right Now, Regardless of Your Take on Global Warming. We are seeing an incredible push by both consumers and regulators for...
Features
Progress Amid Chaos
The Iraq Ministry of Electricity Administered the Country's Generation, transmission and distribution before the 1980s by building all major projects...
Wind: Minnesota's Next Cash Crop Wind Power
If You Like Wind, You Need to Love Transmission. Xcel Energy makes this statement in its presentations to the public, to point out that wind generation...
Joint Trench Works
The Process of Installing Underground Cable to Serve Residential and Light Commercial Developments has gone through a tremendous evolution over the past...
Dominion Elevates Substation Design
Sometimes Utilities Get to Design on a Flat Blank Slate. Sometimes they have to work with what they are given. And that can make for interesting work....
A Smart Recloser for the Smart Grid
Through the Gridapp Consortium, DTE Energy and the S&C Electric Co. Have Teamed Up on a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) pilot project to test and install...
Israel Monitors Cable Temperature
The Number of High-Voltage Underground Cables is Expected to Increase Rapidly in the future as a result of the population-density increase in urban areas...
Goodbye, Windy City Hello, Big Easy
The 2008 IEEE PES Transmission & Distribution Conference and Exposition blew out of Chicago just as fast as it had blown into the Windy City. The April...
Business Developments
ConEdison Solutions Advances National Growth Strategy with Recent Acquisition
ConEdison Solutions (White Plains, New York, U.S.) has acquired Custom Energy Services, LLC (Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.), an energy services company...
Transmission Project Database Available
The C Three Group (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.) has released a transmission project database. The U.S. Electric Transmission Projects: Planned, Announced and...
Oldcastle Acquires Strategic Companies
Oldcastle Precast Enclosure Solutions (OPES; Auburn, Washington, U.S.) has acquired Carson Industries and BES Concrete. The newly formed division, which...
U.S. DOE to Fund Zero-Energy District
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, and a diverse group of partners a US$6.3 million grant to fund the first...
Honeywell's Night Shift Program Reduces Peak Cooling Demand by up to 95%
Honeywell (Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.) has announced a $4.25 million permanent load-shifting program with Southern California Edison (SCE; Rosemead,...
NIPSCO Contracts with ArborMetrics
ArborMetrics Solutions Inc. (Hendersonville, North Carolina, U.S.) was recently selected to provide both transmission and distribution vegetation management...
Italian Cable Project Receives Financing
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is advancing a 300 million euro loan to Terna Rete Elettrica Nazionale S.p.A., which is responsible for electricity...
Technology Updates
Nexans to Supply Submarine Power Cable for Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm
Nexans has been awarded a contract by StatoilHydro ASA, with an estimated value of 24 million euro, to supply the submarine export cables for the Sheringham...
Caracas, Venezuela, Welcomes BPL
BPL Global Ltd. (Sewickley, Pennsylvania, U.S), a Smart Grid technology company, has successfully implemented its broadband over power line (BPL) in Caracas,...
PG&E Offers Smart Meter Data Access
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG San Francisco, California, U.S.) has selected Aclara Software (Hazelwood, Missouri, U.S.) to provide its customers with access...
New Braunfels Utilities' Selects Concrete Buildings for Substation Projects
New Braunfels Utilities (NBU; New Braunfels, Texas, U.S.) recently took delivery of the first of two Easi-Set precast concrete buildings purchased from...
Quarterly Report
What Does 3-D Mean for Utilities?
The Global Construction Industry, Whose Annual Spending is about US$2.3 Trillion, is facing serious challenges including global climate change, aging...
Characters with Character
New Kid on the Block
Meet Bruno Kimura, a Tenacious and Ambitious New Member of the Next Generation of Electrical Engineers. Kimura, who recently joined Festimport, NOJA Power's...
Products and Services
Products & Services
Rugged Handhelds with GIS Trimble's next-generation rugged handheld computing devices, the Trimble GeoExplorer 2008 series, comes with integrated GPS...
Straight Talk
Let's Clear the Air
I Don't Have All the Answers for Solving Climate Change. I've listened to legislators, regulators, environmentalists, scientists, renewable energy advocates...
Vegetation Management
From the desk of the president
The best way to develop an effective vegetation management program is to have experienced, professional managers and utility arborists direct its operations....
The Right Tree In the Right Place
Arizona Public Service Recently Completed a Comprehensive Survey Of Trees on or Near Its Rights-of-way. In cooperation with the city of Phoenix, the utility...
After the Storms
Severe Storms In 2006 and 2007 Knocked Out Power to More Than 1.5 Million Utility Customers in the Ameren (St. Louis, Missouri) service territory. These...
PG&E Redesigns The Cost Equation
We are Taking a Very Good Program to a Completely Different Level. You can't get where we're going until you've been where we've been. That statement...
Eliminating Tree-Caused Outages
In an effort to eliminate less-predictable outages, PG&E has embarked on a five-year journey, with annual milestones, to reduce the vegetation-related...
Electric Utility Operations
Bob Stewart
Born in Billings, Montana. Married for 50 years to Ginger, and they have six children, 20 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. His dad was a lineman,...
Linemen Protection for Substation Work
Linemen for New York Power Authority (NYPA; White Plains, New York) routinely work on substations in a partially energized condition. NYPA is the nation's...
Utilities Restore Power Following April Prairie Fire
Wooden utility poles burned down to the ground in a recent prairie fire in Colorado. What started as a controlled burn on a farmstead escalated into a...
KCP&L Builds Major Underground Crossing
Kansas City Power & Light (KCP Kansas City, Missouri) and its contractors bored a 385-ft hole underneath a major highway where 88,000 vehicles travel...
