LADWP Increasing Capacity of Intermountain Transmission System
ABB has won an order worth $87 million to expand and strengthen the power transmission network in the area of Los Angeles, California, so that it can deliver more electricity from renewable sources...
ERCOT Report Proposes $3 Billion in Transmission Improvements
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), grid operator for most of the state, is reviewing proposed transmission projects for the next five years totaling $3 billion and expected to improve or add 2,888 circuit miles of transmission and more than 17,000 megavolt ampere (MVA) of autotransformer capacity to the grid, according to the annual electric system constraints and needs report, filed today with the Public Utility Commission...
State Regulators Approve Sale of PSE to Investors
State regulators have approved the sale of Puget Energy and its wholly owned electric and natural gas utility subsidiary, Puget Sound Energy (PSE), to New York-based Puget Holdings LLC, a transaction with an estimated value of $7.4 billion. ...
Expected Federal Stimulus to Improve an Already Robust and Growing Wind Industry
Emerging Growth Research has announced the availability of its new research report titled, U.S. Wind Power - State of the Industry and 2009 Predictions. ...
FERC Report Marks Significant Progress in Demand Response, Advanced Metering
Demand response and advanced metering programs have made significant progress in serving more consumers across the country, says a new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission report that charts the expansion of these energy-saving programs since 2006. ...
Landmark Energy Storage Tariff for Frequency Regulation Approved for Midwest ISO Power Grid
Beacon Power Corp.'s flywheel energy storage systems will now be able to provide frequency regulation under a new tariff designed specifically for “stored energy resources” on the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator power grid ...
Australia's Energex Upgrades Power Network in Sunshine Coast
Australia's Sunshine Coast power supply recently received a boost after ENERGEX flicked the switch on its $3 million upgrade to the local electricity network...
European TSOs Launch Cooperation Initiative to Enhance Grid Security
European transmission system operators Verbund Austrian Power Grid, TIWAG-Netz, VKW Netz, swissgrid, EnBW Transportnetze, E.ON Netz, E Transportnetz Strom, VE Transmission, TenneT TSO, PSE Operator and CEPS have launched an initiative to foster regional co-operation to enhance the overall security of the electrical grid. ...
Entergy Hurricane Relief Fund Announces $700,000 in Grants to Texas, Louisiana Agencies
The Entergy Hurricane Relief Fund has announced $700,000 in grants to 39 nonprofits helping victims of hurricanes Gustav and Ike rebuild their lives and communities after the devastating storms. ...
Epcor Completes Underground Line for Edmonton, Canada
A newly installed underground transmission cable running 10.5 km long under the streets of Edmonton is powering the core of the city. ...
California Commission Approves SDG&E'S Sunrise Transmission Project
The California Public Utilities Commission, in order to promote renewable power, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve electricity reliability in the San Diego region, last week approved San Diego Gas and Electric Co.'s application to construct the Sunrise Powerlink Transmission Project...
Unitil COO Calls PECO Crews 'Heroes'
It's hard to be away from home just before the holiday season. But the roughly 50 PECO and Henkels & McCoy employees from the Philadelphia area who are helping bring back electric service to a small town in Massachusetts following a devastating Dec. 11 ice storm are being called "heroes." ...
FERC Takes Major Step Toward Resolution of California-Western Power Crisis
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has ordered paper hearings to supplement the record of a matter on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court involving attempts to abrogate or reform a series of bilateral wholesale energy contracts in the Western power markets entered into between 2000 and 2001....
Galvin Electricity Initiative to New Energy Secretary: Fix the Grid Now
Galvin Electricity Initiative Executive Director Kurt Yeager sent an open letter to Department of Energy Secretary-designate Steven Chu, congratulating him on his cabinet nomination and calling for Chu to take immediate action addressing the unreliable, inefficient and insecure U.S. electricity grid. ...
Ameren Illinois Utilities Expect to Complete Service Restoration by Evening
The Ameren Illinois Utilities expect to complete service restoration work by this evening for those customers who are still without lights due to the ice storm and high winds. ...
Brazil Utility Upgrading Key Transmission Line
CPFL Piratininga, a power distribution unit of CPFL Energia, one of Brazil’s largest electric utilities, will install the 3M Aluminum Conductor Composite Reinforced to upgrade the capacity of a key transmission line serving a densely populated area in the state of São Paulo....
FERC Authorizes Midwest ISO Ancillary Services Market for January 2009 Startup
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued a series of orders that authorize the start-up of the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator’s ancillary services market (ASM) on Jan. 6, 2009, and conditionally accept revisions to its Open Access Transmission and Energy Markets Tariff to implement the Midwest ISO ASM. ...
CL&P, UI Energize Middletown-Norwalk Project Ahead of Schedule
The Connecticut Light and Power Co. and The United Illuminating Co. announced that the Middletown-Norwalk (M-N) transmission project has been energized, nearly one year ahead of schedule, improving reliability for Connecticut and the region's electric customers. ...
Constellation Ends Merger Agreement with MidAmerican, Agrees to Sell Nuke Unit to EDF
Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG - News) and MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company today announced they have jointly reached agreement to terminate their Sept. 19, 2008, merger agreement, and as a result, the previously announced Dec. 23, 2008, shareholder meeting to vote on the MidAmerican merger has been canceled....
PSE Sees 25 Percent Jump in Customers Using Online Services in 2008
Faced with chilly weather and the economic downturn, budget-savvy Puget Sound Energy customers are tackling higher energy bills this winter heating season by turning to the Internet to pay their bills online and compare their daily energy use to determine ways to be more energy-efficient. ...
Revised Phase I Cyber Security Standards Under Review by NERC
As part of its efforts to better address cyber security and critical infrastructure protection, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. and its Cyber Security Standard Drafting Team have recently released phase one of proposed revisions to eight Critical Infrastructure Protection reliability standards for industry comment and review. ...
NSTAR Workers to Assist Utilities Hardest Hit by Storm
With its service area largely spared by the ice damage from Friday's storm, NSTAR was making preparations to assist other New England utilities in their efforts to restore power to hundreds-of-thousands of electric customers affected elsewhere in the region....
ITC Midwest Assumes Operations of Transmission System
ITC Midwest LLC today assumed operational control for more than 4,500 miles of transmission lines and 208 substations acquired last year from Alliant Energy's Interstate Power and Light Co. (IPL) operating subsidiary...
Ohio Consumer Partnership Calls for Investigation of Electric Utilities’ Service Reliability
In a request filed today, a newly formed partnership of consumer groups requested that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) investigate each of Ohio’s investor-owned electric utilities, American Electric Power, Dayton Power & Light, Duke Energy and FirstEnergy, to determine whether they are doing enough to limit the breadth and depth of power outages in their respective regions. ...
Northeast Utilities, NSTAR Pursue Interconnection with Quebec
Northeast Utilities and NSTAR submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission a request for a declaratory order on a proposed transmission interconnection with the Canadian province of Quebec. ...
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