Podcasts
Securing the Smart Grid: A Common Sense Approach for Cyber Security
Sponsored by Black & Veatch: “Securing the Smart Grid: A Common Sense Approach for Cyber Security” with Dan Rueckert, Associate Vice President – Compliance, Security & Risk Practice for Black & Veatch’s management consulting business. ...
Optimizing Grid Performance with Substation Automation and IEC 61850
Sponsored by Black & Veatch
IEC 61850 is more than just a SCADA protocol.
It also provides data collection, time synchronization, high-speed messaging, process bus functionality and more...
Optimizing Grid Performance through Intelligent Automation
Sponsored by Black & Veatch
With increasing demand and rising pressures for more reliable and efficient grid operations, more and more utilities are taking a hard look at how to optimize grid performance. Listen, as Brad VerMeer, head of Black & Veatch’s Utility Automation business and Dick Wernsing, PSE&G’s expert on Reliability Centered Maintenance explore methods for enhancing performance through the implementation of intelligent automation solutions....
Building a Smarter Grid: Managing Assets to Improve Utility Decision Making
Join Greg Scheu, President and Head of Power Products for ABB, and Rick Bush as they discuss how utilities can extract more value from existing grid infrastructure by managing the overall assets of the T&D operation....
Building a Smarter Grid: The Need for Greater Cyber-Security and Physical Security
The Smart Grid will not reach its full capabilities if it is vulnerable to malicious outside threats such as hackers and cyber-terrorists, as well as potential natural disasters...
Building a Smarter Grid: Renewable Energy Transmission Technologies
Today’s growing emphasis on renewable energies has prompted much discussion about how these alternative electricity sources can be transported from remote wind or solar farms to the population centers that need the energy...
Building a Smarter Grid: Open Architecture Standards and the Need for Interoperability
Interoperability – the capacity for devices from various manufacturers to work together – is vital to the realization of a network-based Smart Grid...
Building a Smarter Grid: A Look at Distribution Management Technologies
One of the key characteristics of the Smart Grid refers to electric power systems that enhance grid reliability and efficiency by automatically anticipating and responding to system disturbances...
Building a Smarter Grid: Much More than Smart Meters
There’s an urgent need to modernize our T&D system in the United States, and the ‘Smart Grid’ has emerged as the solution....
