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Designing Energy Services for Commercial and Industrial Customers

Over the past year, technology advances and high energy prices have stimulated interest in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). Discussions are wide-ranging. Some focus globally: Australian and Canadian “smart metering”, new European Union requirements, the results of time-of-use pilots that arose in the wake of California’s deregulation debacle.

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York Region Finishes Tasks Faster

We all know that data integration improves productivity and York Region is living proof. Using AutoCAD® Map 3D, York saved time and money by relying on its AutoCAD-trained staff to quickly implement a new system that incorporates both CAD and GIS.

Save Time with CAD and GIS Integration

Read how the Public Works Department of the City of Tacoma (Tacoma), Washington, uses its geospatial data to do everything from issuing building permits and managing waste water to maintaining streetlights

S&C Upgrades Protection and Coordination Assistant 

S&C has upgraded Coordinaide — the S&C Protection and Coordination Assistant. ...

Sensortran Offers Auto-Correcting Calibration for DTS 

SensorTran Inc. has announced the general availability of its Distributed Temperature Sensing Calibration Module....

ETSA Utilities Awards 5 Year Supply Contract to NOJA 

ETSA Utilities has awarded NOJA Power Switchgear Pty Ltd a 5-year supply contract for the South Australian distribution network's 11 kV pole-mounted, line recloser requirements....

Smart-Grid Systems Maker Serveron Joins Gridwise Alliance 

Serveron Corp., a provider of smart grid monitoring technology to help prevent transformer failures and power system blackouts, today announced it has joined the GridWise Alliance...

Frost & Sullivan: ANZ Switchgear and Transformer Markets Powering Up 

The current trend of replacing or upgrading old transformers by the power transmission utilities coupled with the boom in the mining industry has seen growth of the switchgear and transformer market in the Australia-New Zealand region. ...

PureWave AVC Adaptive VAR Compensator Provides Solution for Australian Ports 

Patrick Terminals is Australia’s largest operator of container terminals with state-of-the-art facilities in all major ports...

Beacon Power Announces Achievement of Flywheel Development Milestones 

Beacon Power Corp.'s Smart Energy 25 flywheel with recent design improvements has achieved the development milestones of full speed operation (16,000 rpm) at full power (100 kW charging and discharging)....

Oncor Uses Nanotechnology in Fight Against Copper Wire Theft 

Oncor Electric Delivery will implement a new technology this summer that will both discourage would-be criminals from stealing copper from the company's substations and switchyards and help law enforcement personnel find and prosecute thieves....

Schneider Electric Acquires Elite Engineering 

Schneider Electric Canada has announced the acquisition of Victoria, BC-based Elite Engineering Limited. ...

Siemens to Supply Southern Company’s Energy Management System 

Southern Co. has selected Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution's Spectrum Power 3 energy management system to monitor, control, and optimize the reliability of its transmission system consisting of more than 27,000 miles of transmission lines, 3400 substations, and more than 300,000 acres of right of way...

Jersey Central Power and Light Conducting Thermovision Inspections 

As part of its ongoing effort to enhance customer service, Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) is conducting thermovision inspections of its electric distribution system in northern New Jersey....

SF6 Gas Density Monitors Support Electric Utility Market 

Solon Manufacturing Co.'s 2TC SF6 Gas Density Monitor are compact, temperature-compensated pressure switches available with two, three or four SPDT electric switches...

Indicator Warns of Component Failure, Overheating 

The Wahl Breaker WB140 is designed to warn of possible component failure or overheat of circuit breakers, motors and electrical equipment due to overheat conditions...

SEL Energizes the First of 30 IEC 61850-Based Substations for Elektro 

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. has completed the modernization and energization of Guarujá 2, an electrical substation integrated with the IEC 61850 suite of protocols, belonging to Elektro Eletricidade e Serviços S.A., a large electric distribution utility in Brazil....

Endesa to Use IP TETRA to Automatically Transmit Data for Distribution Monitoring 

Endesa has chosen Motorola, Inc. to supply a TETRA communications network. ...

NxtPhase Sells Relay & Recorder Division 

NxtPhase T&D Corporation has announced the sale of its relay and recorder business unit to Easun Reyrolle Limited of India. ...

Centerpoint Energy Implements FACTS Projects for Reliability 

Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution, Inc. has been awarded a contract to provide CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC, a transmission and distribution subsidiary of CenterPoint Energy, Inc., with its first Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS). ...

Schneider Electric Negotiates with Eaton for Divestment of MGE UPS Systems' Operations in small systems 

Schneider Electric has entered into exclusive negotiations with Eaton Corp. for the divestment of MGE UPS Systems operations in small systems, as per its prior commitment to the European Commission following the acquisition of American Power Conversion. ...

Portland General Electric Orders VAR Compensation System from S&C 

S&C Electric Company has received an order for a VAR compensation system from Portland General Electric, an electric utility in Portland, Oregon, for Phase I of its Biglow Canyon Wind Project. ...

AREVA T&D Achieves Closer Customer Contact in Italy During High-Voltage Days 

With the aim of giving key Italian customers a detailed view of AREVA T&D’s complete high-voltage product range offer, the third AREVA T&D High-Voltage Days were held on May 10, 2007....

Programma Joins Megger Group 

Electrical test and measurement equipment manufacturer Programma Electric AB is now part of Megger Group, a global supplier of instruments for electrical power applications. Programma was previously part of GE Energy....

PJM Interconnection Approves Beacon Power Technology for Use in Frequency Regulation Services Market 

PJM Interconnection has approved Beacon Power's flywheel technology for use as a frequency regulation resource in its region. ...

EPRI Announces Agreement with Systems Integrator on TIMS 

The Electric Power Research Institute has announced an agreement with an engineering systems integrator to license EPRI’s Transmission Inspection and Maintenance System (TIMs), a software package used by utilities to improve power line inspection and collection of maintenance data. ...

SensorTran, J-Power Systems Announce Initiative to Establish Standards for Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing 

SensorTran Inc. and J-Power Systems Corp. have created an international working group for distributed optical monitoring solutions. ...

VacStat Vacuum Switches Continue to Grow in Market Acceptance 

Joslyn Hi-Voltage’s switch production containing the vacuum pressure monitoring technology VacStat continues to grow with the introduction of the VacStat feature into another model Joslyn Hi-Voltage vacuum switch....

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Hurricane Ike Coverage
On September 12th, Hurricane Ike tore through the Gulf Coast, wreaking havoc on lives and property. Transmission & Distribution World’s Rick Bush is headed to the region to provide a first-hand account of the damage including an insider view of utility emergency-response efforts. His reports and subsequent feature coverage will highlight how utilities, contractors and suppliers work as a team to restore power as quickly as possible.
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At the Briefing Room you will be able to stay up-to-date on the latest technology announcements where we will provide daily postings from our industry sources.

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ACSS and HS285 Extend Grid Capacity

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There are capacity bottleneck situations, where new overhead transmission line construction is not a practical reality. In some of these situations overhead lines are in place and they are not able to provide the transfer capacity needed.

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Supercondutor Cable Systems

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Transmission & Distribution World presents Superconductor Cable Systems, A Part of the Increasing Bulk Power Transfer Series.

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Evolution of Next Generation Wireless Communications in Power Delivery

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Evolution of Next Generation Wireless Communications in Power Delivery - seeing wireless communications solutions emerge to enable more efficient operations.

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