Minnesota to Invest $1 Billion in Power Grid
Minnesota’s power grid is about to undergo a major overhaul. It’s been over 20 years since the state has seen a major upgrade to its system, and the goal of the upgrade is to prevent future blackouts and keep up with the high demand of Minnesota’s power customers...
CFIB Calls for Creation of Office of the Provincial Electricity Auditor
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is urging the Ontario government to create an Office of the Provincial Electricity Auditor to oversee the various electricity entities envisioned as part of Bill 100...
California Public Utilities Commission Approves New Transmission Line
A new transmission line that will provide added electric reliability and meet growing demand for electricity in San Francisco and the Peninsula was approved by the California Public Utilities Commission...
Progress Energy Florida Restores Power to Ninety-Nine Percent of Customers
Progress Energy crews in Florida have been working around the clock repairing the damage from Hurricane Charley. Power has been restored to 498,805 or 99% of the customers who lost power when Hurricane Charley battered Florida last Friday ...
FPL Continues Power Restoration Efforts in Damaged Areas
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) is continuing power restoration focusing on areas most damaged by Hurricane Charley. To date, service is restored to 824,100 of the 874,000 customers throughout the company’s service territory affected by the recent, devastating storm...
OSHA, Electrical Construction Contractors, Union, and Industry Associations Form Strategic Safety Partnership
OSHA signed a strategic safety partnership today with five of the nation's largest electrical construction contractors, two key industry trade associations and a union which represents more than 750,000 members nationwide in a coalition formed to reduce injuries and fatalities of workers in the electrical transmission and distribution contracting industry ...
Commission Accepts PJM Plan to Reduce Redispatch Costs
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday accepted a plan proposed by the PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM) that will reduce transmission costs on PJM’s multi-state system, more equitably distribute costs to those customers that benefit from the reductions, while ensuring reliability of electric service ...
Restoration Crews Continue Working Around the Clock
Florida Power & Light Co. reported more progress overnight as crews continued to reduce the number of its customers without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley...
Litmus Test for Electric Competition: Will Texas Regulators Keep Promises Made by Legislators?
The eyes of the nation's financial community are on the Lone Star State this month, according to William P. Kucewicz, editor and publisher of GeoInvestor.com. What happens in Texas this month could bear directly on the national move toward a competitive market in electric power, as the Public Utilities Commission of Texas (PUCT) decides the first major "true up" case related to the shift from a regulated to a deregulated electric power market ...
Most of Tampa Electric's Outages Restored
Tampa Electric today announced that, with just 3,000 customers to restore in its Winter Haven service area following Hurricane Charley, the company is able to release the line repair and tree trimming crews that traveled to Florida to assist with the company's own repair work...
Progress Energy Continues Reconstruction
Progress Energy Florida crews continue to restore power to customers across Florida. The company has restored power to 163,421, or one-third of its customers who lost power when Hurricane Charley battered Florida on Friday, August 13...
Creating a Single Electricity Market for Great Britain
Ofgem has published the proposed designation text that will comprise the legal framework for creating a single Great Britain-wide electricity market...
Progress Energy Asks Customers to Conserve Power in Advance of Hurricane
Due to the projected storm surge and impact from Hurricane Charley, Progress Energy is shutting down power plants on Florida's west coast as a precautionary measure. Flooding from storms can cause significant damage to power plants...
Investment to Increase in Scotland's Transmission System
Energy regulator Ofgem has announced initial proposals for consultation that will permit additional investment in the Scottish electricity transmission network to help support growth in renewable generation not envisioned at the time of the last price control...
CEA Marks Blackout Anniversary with Document Release
The Canadian Electricity Association (CEA) released a report today to mark the first anniversary of the August 2003 electric power blackout that affected Ontario and the Midwest and Northeast United States. "03 Blackout Update" details the participation of CEA and its member companies in the blackout investigation, and lists several of the recommendations of the U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force...
NERC Highlights Progress One Year After Blackout
One year after a massive blackout darkened much of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada, the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) has prepared a status report highlighting the major actions that NERC and the industry have taken to improve the reliability of the North American bulk electric system...
Cinergy, Current Communications Begin Marketing BPL to Municipal Utilities, Rural Electric Cooperatives
Access Broadband LLC has been selected as the name for the joint venture formed by Cinergy Broadband, LLC, an affiliate of Cinergy Corp., and Current Communications Group, LLC to market broadband over powerline (BPL) technology exclusively to municipal utilities and rural electric cooperatives...
Three Energy Commission White Papers Examine California's Electricity Supply
Last November, the California Energy Commission sent Governor Schwarzenegger and the legislature the "Integrated Energy Policy Report," a comprehensive look at all types of energy in the state...
Lieberman, Dodd Call on Congress to Pass Electric Grid Upgrades This Fall
As the one-year anniversary of the Northeastern blackout approaches, Senators Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and Chris Dodd (D-CT) yesterday sponsored a staff briefing by industry experts on technologies available to improve the U.S. electric grid...
North Carolina Proposes Rules for Worker Safety on Communications Towers
Introducing a new stage of worker safety regulation, North Carolina this week became the first state to propose rules addressing worker safety on communications towers...
American Superconductor's SuperVAR Synchronous Condenser Successfully Generates Reactive Power on Ohio Transmission Grid
American Superconductor Corporation has announced the successful operation and testing of an advanced prototype SuperVAR synchronous condenser, generating 8 mega-VAR (MVAR) of reactive power on a continuous basis when synchronized with the First Energy power transmission grid in Mansfield, Ohio, U.S....
Critical Power Industry Forms New Coalition
Representatives of the critical power industry today announced the formation of the Critical Power Coalition (CPC), a national organization whose mission is to develop common public policy and establish a unified industry voice to ensure the quality, reliability, and continuity of electrical power within critical industries, businesses and public services...
New Technology Accurately Determines Wooden Cross Arm Strength, AIR2 Announces
The new "THOR" System, developed jointly by AIR2, LLC and Entergy's Transmission Services Technology Delivery Group for testing the strength of wooden cross arms, is now available for commercial use...
Canadian Electricity Association Supports Establishment of International Electric Reliability Organization
In the context of ongoing Canada/U.S. discussions regarding the establishment of an international reliability organization, the Canadian Electricity Association has released a report emphasizing its view that long-term reliability in North America can only be achieved through the establishment of mandatory, uniform, reliability standards that allow for regional differences...
Endesa and REE Reach Deal to Speed up the Development of Electricity Transmission Infrastructure
Endesa and Red Electrica de Espana have agreed to work together more closely to drive the development of electricity transmission infrastructure in Spain for the supply of power to the mainland markets...
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