January 1, 2010
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Global Viewpoint
Buyers Beware
Buyers, are you ready to achieve breakthrough savings? Isn't that the core of your job after all? To save your utility hard money....
Features
Turkey Strengthens Connection to the West
Turkey's first national load dispatch system was installed and commissioned in the 1980s. Supplied by a Westinghouse/Telettra consortium, the Wesdac32...
GTC Rethinks 500-kV Line Design Possibilities
Georgia is one of the fastest-growing states in the United States, and this year's electric demand is expected to be nearly double what it was 20 years...
Reliability Improves as Technology Advances
In today's world, most consumers consider a blink almost the same as a prolonged outage. Minimizing blinks on a rural power system historically has been...
Before Lines Fall Down
It's all in the numbers. And since Avista Utilities (Spokane, Washington) clocks in at a century old, it is not surprising that many of the numbers concern...
Swiss Utility Focuses on Life-Cycle Costs
Since the major outages in Europe in 2004, grid system reliability has become a key topic as society now seeks improved standards of supply reliability....
Across the Wide Missouri
In 2007, when the Missouri Department of Transportation notified Kansas City Power & Light that the Highway 240 bridge over the Missouri River in Glasgow,...
Business Developments
PV Powered Wins U.S. DOE Grant to Enable High Grid Penetration of PV
PV Powered Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) inverters has been selected to receive a Stage 2 award under the Solar Energy Grid...
GE and FANUC Complete Joint-Venture Dissolution
GE and FANUC LTD. have completed their agreement to dissolve the GE Fanuc Automation Corporation Joint Venture. This agreement reverts the respective...
Prysmian Acquires Rybinsk, Setting Off Expansion in Russia
Prysmian sets off its first move in the expansion strategy in the Russian market by closing the acquisition of Rybinsk Electrocabel, one of the most dynamic...
GridCom Forum Feb. 2-3, 2010 Santa Clara, California, U.S.
The IEC's inaugural GridCom Forum conference and exhibition will address the development of smart grid technology and give attendees the opportunity to...
Prysmian Secures New Optical Frame Contract with Kabel Deutscland
Prysmian Germany announces a new contract to supply fiber-optic cables to Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Germany's largest CaTV operator. Under the terms of...
GE to Manufacture New Smart Washers and Dryers in Louisville
GE's Consumer & Industrial division plans to manufacture high-end energy-efficient front-load washers and dryers at GE's Appliance Park facility in Louisville,...
SuperPower Partners with Waukesha Electric Systems in DOE Smart Grid Demonstration Program
SuperPower Inc. announced that it is partnering in a US$21.5 million smart grid demonstration project awarded by U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven...
Arqiva to Employ Sensus Smart Grid Technologies
Sensus, a leader in intelligent solutions for gas, water and electric utilities, and Arqiva, a U.K.-based communications infrastructure and services company,...
Technology Updates
CL&P Energy Program Pilot Customers Respond to Price Signals
Connecticut Light & Power's (Berlin, Connecticut, U.S.) customers will use significantly less energy during times of peak electric usage when clear pricing...
KCP&L Selects Intergraph Smart Grid Technology
Kansas City Power and Light (KCP&L) has selected Intergraph smart grid technology for a demonstration project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment...
Powerco Commissions Automatic Backfeed Restoration Scheme
Powerco (New Plymouth, New Zealand) has commissioned its Pohangina Apiti automatic backfeed restoration scheme using the NOJA Power (Queensland, Australia)...
Siemens Energy Installs Prototype of 3-MW Direct-Drive Wind Turbine
Siemens Energy has installed the first prototype of a newly designed direct-drive wind turbine. The new SWT-3.0-101 DD is a gearless machine with a power...
Hydro One Hardens its Grid with Green Composite Poles
Resin Systems Inc., a technology innovator and manufacturer of advanced composite products for infrastructure markets, announces that Hydro One has selected...
Cutting-Edge Matrix Conductor Boosts Silicon Valley Power Transmission Capacity
Silicon Valley Power (Santa Clara, California, U.S.) has dramatically boosted its transmission capacity with the installation of a lightweight 60-kV conductor...
Enspiria Solutions Included in Microsoft Smart Energy Reference Architecture
Enspiria Solutions, a provider of consulting and systems integration to the utility and government sectors, has been included in the recently published...
Colombian Utility Selects TWACS AMI
Colombia, South America-based utility EMCALI EICE ESE has chosen Two-Way Automatic Communications System (TWACS) technology from Aclara to support its...
Quarterly Report
Metro Electric Utilities Work Together
A major ice storm knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of residential and commercial customers seven years ago in the Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.,...
Characters with Character
The Natural
Power utilities and conservationists may appear to be on opposite sides of the fence when it comes to preserving the natural environment, but John Goodfellow...
Products and Services
PRODUCTS & Services
Phase Attribute and GPS Location Datalogger Origo announces the PhaseID Dataloggers remote phase identification instruments for determining, indicating...
PRODUCTS & Services
Voltage Detector HD Electric Co.'s new carrying case lanyard is designed to leave the V-Watch Personal Voltage Detector permanently mounted inside. It...
Straight Talk
The U.K.'s Energy Future
There has been a lack of a strategic energy policy in the U.K. and many years have been wasted. Now, in order to comply with the Kyoto Agreement and European...
Electric Utility Operations
Welcome to a New Year
With the temperatures dipping below freezing in Kansas City, it's time again for the start of a new year for Electric Utility Operations. I've enjoyed...
Wayne Black
Born in Lehi, Utah. Married to Allison and father of four Jake, Cameron, Kaitlin and Joshua. Enjoys skiing, racing bikes and playing guitar. Describes...
Tips for Aerial Lift Self-Rescue
Aerial lifts can increase field crews' safety and productivity when working aboveground. However, they also can put an inexperienced operator into an...
KCP&L Improves Emergency Response
Linemen have responded to more frequent and intense storms in the Midwest over the last few years. Because of the nature of their jobs, they often work...
AEP Takes Linemen Training to the Next Level
When linemen get called out in the middle of the night to work on a complex transformer bank, some pull out a book or a card for reference. American Electric...
Parting SHOT
In Fairmont, West Virginia, Utility Pole Technologies foreman Doug Young (left) and crew member John Smallwood (right) demonstrate the proper technique...
