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NorthWestern Energy to Implement Outage and Mobile Workforce Management
NorthWestern Energy has selected Intergraph Corp.'s InService solution for its multi-state integrated outage and mobile workforce management system. ...
Wisconsin Public Service Selects Mobile Workforce Management
Wisconsin Public Service Corp. has selected the Intergraph InService for Mobile Workforce Management solution as an add-on to its existing InService Outage Management and Mobile Dispatch system, in operation since 2006. ...
Sprint Anounces Agreements with Automation Providers
Sprint has announced agreements with Itron, Inc; Lanner Electronics, Inc.; Power Insight and Silver Spring Networks where these companies will offer Sprint wireless network connectivity in support of their automated products and services....
Cloud Service Provides Smart Grid Network Management
CSC is collaborating with Proximetry to leverage its AirSync platform as the foundation of a mart grid network management cloud service. ...
eMeter EnergyIP MDUS Bundle Becomes SAP-Qualified Business Solution
eMeter has announced that its eMeter EnergyIP MDUS Bundle is now an SAP-qualified business solution. ...
Blue Ridge Mountain EMC to Deploy New Distribution SCADA
Blue Ridge Mountain EMC has contracted for a new and modern Distribution SCADA Master System based on OSI’s monarch platform....
Guiyang Power Selects Smart Grid Technology for Collection, Analysis of Real-Time Operational Data
Guiyang Electrical Power Supply Company of Guizhou, China, has selected smart grid technology for the collection and analysis of its real-time operational data. ...
Software Brings Enterprise-Class Security to Field-Area Networks for Smart Grid
Tropos Networks has announced Tropos Mesh OS Release 7.7. ...
City of Leesburg Launches Grid Modernization Project to Better Manage Electricity Loads
The city of Leesburg is modernizing the city’s electric grid with advanced technologies designed to power 21st century economic growth, increase energy efficiency, improve power reliability and empower its consumers. ...
Ethernet Modules for RTU Product Line
Semaphore, a CSE Global company, has released new Ethernet communications options for the Kingfisher Plus+ RTU product line. Communication option T3 is...
Leesburg Launches Grid Modernization
The city of Leesburg, Florida, U.S, is modernizing its electric grid with advanced technologies designed to increase energy efficiency, improve power...
Enterprise Historian Solution
GE Intelligent Platforms announces the availability of its latest software product, Proficy Historian 4.5. This Enterprise Historian solution collects,...
OSI to Supply Mountain Parks Electric with SCADA/DMS System
Colorado's Mountain Parks Electric Inc. (MPEI) has awarded Open Systems International Inc. (OSI) a contract to provide a new supervisory control and data...
Sharpening the Tools of Asset Management
A skilled woodcutter before becoming the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was renowned for his preoccupation with productivity and...
Utility SCADA Systems Remain a Key Point of Security Vulnerability in Smart Grid Deployments
The discovery of the Stuxnet worm in 2010 shone a harsh light on the fragility of industrial control systems (ICS), such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, and has created a new urgency among security vendors and utility managers alike. ...
Program Provides Roadmap to Integrate All Functions of Electricity Program
Glendale Water & Power has ordered the architecture for a progressive, comprehensive smart power programs. ...
PJM Interconnection Goes Live With Grid Management System
The PJM Advanced Control Center program integrates state-of-the-art, large-scale energy management systems using the Siemens/PJM Shared Architecture integration platform....
Integrated Volt/VAR Control Tools Meet Increased Demand for Delivery Efficiency
Efacec Advanced Control Systems is addressing an increased demand for Volt/VAR optimization among utilities with tools that calculate efficiency savings faster and more accurately....
Demand Response and Outage Management Are Top Priorities for Cooperative in New York
Delaware County Electric Cooperative (DCEC) has selected an advanced metering network that will support a variety of smart grid initiatives the utility is undertaking to improve outage management, manage peak load and provide consumers with more information about energy use....
Utility Investment in Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems to Total $4.1 Billion by 2018
According to a new report published by Pike Research, risks to the electrical grid will require utilities to make significant new investments in cyber security for industrial control systems (ICS), which the cleantech market intelligence firm forecasts will total $4.1 billion during the years between 2011 and 2018. ...
