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82 Utilities Honored with National Award for Reliable Electric Operations

Mar 23, 2011, APPA

Eighty two of the nation’s more than 2,000 public power utilities earned Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3)1 recognition from the American Public Power Association for providing consumers with the highest degree of reliable and safe electric service. ...

External Power Connected to 6 Reactors at Troubled Fukushima Plant

Mar 22, 2011, Xinhua

External power source had been connected to all the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Kyodo News reported late Tuesday. ...

Kansas State University Researches Cascading Power Failures

Mar 22, 2011, Kansas State University

One of Kansas' most abundant natural resources may hold the key to preventing major power outages. ...

TVA Seeks Comments on Proposed Kentucky Transmission Project

Mar 22, 2011

The Tennessee Valley Authority is seeking public comments on a transmission line project that will relieve overloaded equipment and help assure continued reliable power for a portion of western Kentucky. ...

FERC Reaffirms Order Requiring Revised Definition of Bulk Electric System

Mar 21, 2011, FERC

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has taken steps to further ensure reliable operation of the nation’s interconnected transmission network by reaffirming that the definition of “bulk electric system” must be revised to eliminate the unchecked regional discretion that has resulted in inconsistencies and accepting revised procedures for developing mandatory reliability standards. ...

CRA Study: Entergy Customers to Benefit by Joining Energy Market

Mar 17, 2011, MISO

After reviewing a draft addendum study released by Charles River Associates (CRA), MISO agrees with the study's assessment that significant benefits are available to Entergy and its customers by participating in a comprehensive energy market. ...

PSE&G Announces North Central Reliability Project

Mar 16, 2011

Public Service Electric and Gas Co. will seek approval from the New Jersey Board of Utilities for the North Central Reliability Project, which would upgrade transmission lines and substations from existing 138kV power to 230kV power in the northern and central regions of the state. ...

BGE Customers Continue to Strongly Support Energy Savers Program

Mar 15, 2011, BGE

Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. has achieved significant milestones in its BGE Smart Energy Savers Program, a suite of offerings intended to help customers reduce energy usage and demand in support of EmPOWER Maryland’s goal of a 15 percent per capita reduction in energy consumption by 2015. ...

Edison Mission Group Holds Dedication Event For First Wind Energy Project in South Texas

Mar 15, 2011, Edison Mission Group

Edison Mission Group has officially dedicated its Cedro Hill wind project located in Bruni, about 45 miles northeast of Laredo, Texas....

FERC Approves Market-Based Demand Response Compensation Rule

Mar 15, 2011, FERC

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has established a new rule intended to benefit customers and help improve the operation and competitiveness of organized wholesale energy markets by establishing the approach to compensation for demand response resources in those markets. ...

TEPCO Starts Power Cuts in Areas Near Tokyo

Mar 14, 2011, Xinhua

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) on Monday began implementing its planned rolling power cuts in some areas near Tokyo to avoid massive blackout in its service area following Friday's colossal earthquake....

EU Wind Sector Calls for Binding 2030 Target

Mar 14, 2011, EWEA

At the opening in Brussels of Europe's largest wind power conference and exhibition, Arthouros Zervos, president of the European Wind Energy Association, warned "the wind industry expects to invest some EUR 400 billion in Europe between now and 2030. To do so it needs stable and certain EU energy policy." ...

Blue Ribbon Panels to Examine Pepco Reliability Issues

Mar 11, 2011, Business Wire

Pepco Holdings, Inc. Chairman, President and CEO Joseph M. Rigby has announced the formation of two independent blue ribbon panels to examine Pepco reliability and restoration issues....

2010 State of the Market Report for PJM Released

Mar 10, 2011

PJM Interconnection's wholesale electric energy and capacity markets produced competitive results last year, according to the 2010 State of the Market Report for PJM, released today by Monitoring Analytics, LLC, the Independent Market Monitor for PJM....

ANSI to Facilitate Standardization Roadmap for Safe, Mass Deployment of Electric Vehicles in U.S.

Mar 9, 2011, American National Standards Institute

A March 4 meeting convened by the American National Standards Institute has resulted in an agreement by key stakeholders from the private and public sectors to develop a standardization roadmap to enable the safe, mass deployment of electric vehicles and associated infrastructure in the United States. ...

EEI Awards Georgia Power with ‘Emergency Assistance Award’ Following Rain and Snow Storm

Mar 8, 2011, Georgia Power

The Edison Electric Institute last week honored Georgia Power with the association’s “Emergency Assistance Award” for outstanding efforts in restoring electric service to Consolidated Edison customers in New York following a storm that brought torrential rain and high winds. ...

PECO Inspecting 39,000 Poles to Improve Electric Service Reliability

Mar 8, 2011, Business Wire

PECO will inspect more than 39,000 utility poles located across its service territory this year as part of the company’s maintenance and reliability improvement program. PECO is investing $1.1 million to perform the inspections, which will continue through the spring. ...

Smart Grid Investment in Europe to Total $80 Billion by 2020

Mar 8, 2011, Business Wire

A new report from Pike Research forecasts that, during the period from 2010 to 2020, cumulative European investment in smart grid technologies will reach $80.3 billion. ...

Northeast Utilities Shareholders Approve Merger with NSTAR

Mar 8, 2011, Northeast Utilities

Northeast Utilities shareholders have voted to approve the merger between NU and NSTAR and to adopt additional proposals related to the merger. ...

PPL Electric Utilities Plans $450 Million in 2011 Capital Investments in its Delivery Systems

Mar 8, 2011

PPL Electric Utilities plans more than $450 million in capital investments this year in its transmission and distribution system to improve reliability, strengthen its aging infrastructure, and upgrade facilities in certain areas due to increased demand. ...