April 1, 2010
Global Viewpoint
Vision and Passion Combine
I have the good fortune to work for a company where my personal philosophy meshes perfectly with our corporate vision. Here is the vision we live by at...
Features
Copper Theft
As copper prices plunged in late 2008, the theft of copper from many utilities was all but eliminated. Over the last several months, however, utilities...
Madrid: A Modern City with a Modern Grid
To satisfy increasing and future demands for energy in major cities created by new industrial and residential development often requires the reorganization...
Take Asset Decisions Off the Clock
Over the past 10 to 15 years, utilities have seen tremendous growth in the number of smart relays and other smart substation devices. In addition, there...
KCP&L Optimizes Project Portfolio
Kansas City Power & Light prioritizes transmission and distribution capital construction projects using rigorous processes to ensure that both project...
Six Utilities Share Their Perspectives on Insulators
The high-voltage transmission system in North America is the result of planning and execution initiated soon after World War II. Ambitious goals, sound...
Enel Gets Charged Up Over Electric Vehicles
The role of the distribution system operator has been relegated to a specific stage in the electricity value chain, namely the management of distribution...
IEEE PES T&D Conference and Expo Update
The Big Easy is hosting the IEEE PES Transmission & Distribution Conference and Exposition April 19-22 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The...
Business Developments
Edison Electric Institute Releases 4th Annual Transmission Report
Edison Electric Institute's (EEI's) Transmission Projects: At a Glance report showcases representative transmission projects that EEI member companies...
Siemens to Expand Power Supply Network in the UAE
Siemens Energy has received an order worth approximately 30 million euros from Dubai-based Federal Electricity and Water Authority (FEWA) as part of power...
FERC Grants Tres Amigas Market-Based Rates; Requests Further Applications Regarding ERCOT Jurisdiction Waiver
At a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) hearing on March 18, 2010, Tres Amigas LLC received responses on the regulatory filings it submitted...
AREVA T&D Wins EHV Substation Order in India
AREVA T&D has been awarded a contract worth 60 million euros by state utility Uttar Pradesh Power Transmission Corporation Limited in India. AREVA will...
Landis+Gyr Lays Foundations for Slovenia's Smart Grid
Landis+Gyr, a global supplier of smart meters and energy management solutions, will be contributing to the further development of Slovenia through the...
Full-Scale PowerMatching City Goes Live
KEMA has partnered with Dutch energy research center ECN, advanced software company Humiq and utility Essent to create a living smart grid demonstration...
Black & Veatch Expands Smart Grid Capabilities
Black & Veatch continues to expand its smart grid suite of services with the acquisition of Enspiria Solutions. Enspiria is an industry leader in the...
Technology Updates
Proof Positive Copper: Southwire's Solution to the Copper Theft Epidemic
Theft of copper cable is an epidemic across the country and the world. As global demand for copper increases, and the price thieves receive for recycled...
Chugach Electric Researches Energy-Efficiency Monitors
Chugach Electric Association and Tendril, an energy management technology provider, have teamed up with 90 Chugach residential customers to determine...
PPL Electric Utilities Reduces Customer Outage Minutes with Sensus Solution
Sensus has been chosen to provide equipment and services for PPL Electric Utilities' Remote Operator Controlled Switch program which has been approved...
OATI and Western Joint Initiative Move to Launch I-TAP
OATI and a group of utilities, independent power producers, merchants, transmission providers and balancing authorities in the Western Interconnection...
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Transmission & Distribution World's technology editor is on Twitter. Let Vito Longo provide you with tweets and links about utility news, upcoming T&D...
Quarterly Update
It's Time to Get in STEP
Now is the time for all electric utilities to get involved with the Spare Transformer Equipment Program (STEP). STEP continues to grow and represent the...
Characters with Character
A Family Affair
To say engineering runs in Carol Chessmore's blood is an understatement. Like her father and brother, the system planning engineer for electric T&D leader...
Straight Talk
Building Our Energy Future
Working with PSE Operator is my life. Or, maybe our lives, as my sister Iwona started her career here, too. Now she is at the European Transmission headquarters...
Electric Utility Operations
Live-Line Maintenance Helps Improve Reliability
Some linemen may only get to work on energized conductors once in a blue moon, but at Colorado Springs Utilities (Springs Utilities), field workers work...
Northeast Utilities Implements Program for Working Live
Colorado Springs Utilities is not the only utility to make energized work methods a part of line workers' daily routine. For the last two years, line...
PRODUCTS & Services
Automatic Power Restoration G&W Electric introduces a pre-engineered control package that works in conjunction with power distribution switchgear to perform...
Parting SHOT
On a frigid Friday afternoon in February, De'Andre Nolden, electrical mechanic apprentice (left), and Dave Venegoni, electrical repairman, AmerenUE Substations,...
Mark Micci
Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Married for 15 years to his wife, Andrea, and has three sons: Austin, Tyler and Mason. Enjoys spending time outdoors...
How to Create Your Safety Vision
A good friend called a couple of weeks ago, and he was both excited and nervous about interviewing for a utility safety manager position. If successful,...
The Greening of the Fleet
For Public Service Electric & Gas, environmental stewardship is a cornerstone to providing safe, reliable, economic and green energy. The gas and electric...
