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Green Mountain, Central Vermont get state's nod on merger
The companies will use Green Mountain's name as a subsidiary of Gaz Metro.
By Ron Gallagher • June 15, 2012 -
California's electric power market faces challenges heading into summer
Losing the San Onofre nuclear units combines with the grid's configuration to cause operators and analysts some concern.
By Ron Gallagher • June 14, 2012 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineElectricity Supply and Demand
After nearly two decades of flat demand, U.S. electricity consumption reached an all-time high in 2024 and is expected to continue rising. This trendline brings together the best of Utility Dive’s coverage of emerging trends in supply and demand and the decisions being made today that will impact the power system for years to come.
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Ambient: 100,000 smart-grid nodes, but one customer
The company is seeing great growth, but all its eggs are in one Duke Energy basket so far.
By Ron Gallagher • June 14, 2012 -
Country's largest smart-grid demo project kicks off this fall
It involves 11 utilities with 60,000 customers in five states in exploring what smart metering and responsive devices can do.
By Ron Gallagher • June 14, 2012 -
Trico is Solar Co-op of 2012
The Arizona co-op lets members take advantage of solar generation without having to install their own systems.
By Ron Gallagher • June 14, 2012 -
KCP&L using smart-grid upgrade as urban improvement
A demonstration project wants to show how infrastructure and community improvements can be linked.
By Ron Gallagher • June 13, 2012 -
German meter-maker Elster reported to be for sale
Elster Group SE, based in Germany, traces itself back to the American Meter Company's 1836 founding in New York.
By Ron Gallagher • June 13, 2012 -
Making the case for an Internet-enabled smart grid
In 2009, DOE reported that "much of the electricity supply and delivery infrastructure is nearing the end of its useful life."
By Ron Gallagher • June 13, 2012 -
DOE conducting peer reviews for reliability and cyber-security programs
The Department of Energy will hold peer reviews for the Real Time Reliability Management program and the Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems (CEDS) program this summer.
By Ron Gallagher • June 13, 2012 -
Detroit will charge utilities for emergency-services costs
A new ordinance allows the city to recover costs it says it incurs for responses to incidents involving utility lines.
By Ron Gallagher • June 12, 2012 -
Entergy project restores nearly 3,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forests
Entergy partnered with The Conservation Fund and Trust for Public Land, which helped acquire the lands.
By Ron Gallagher • June 11, 2012 -
Ontario chooses Energate to lead smart grid project
The project will involve 1,000 homes across Ontario during the next 18 months.
By Ron Gallagher • June 11, 2012 -
The challenge and promise of unstructured data
Analytics adds value to the smart-grid data utilities are amassing.
By Ron Gallagher • June 11, 2012 -
Honeywell forms smart-grid solutions business
Honeywell's Building Solutions unit is going after smart-grid business with a new enterprise.
By Ron Gallagher • June 11, 2012 -
Duke, Progress head for final merger hurdle: State approval
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave its blessing late Friday, so the focus returns to regulators in the Carolinas.
By Ron Gallagher • June 11, 2012 -
Smart meters do not equal a smart grid
Meters look dumb when there is a problem somewhere back up the aging power infrastructure.
By Ron Gallagher • June 8, 2012 -
As deadline nears to seal a Duke-Progress deal, N.C. adds a new wrinkle
Legislation proposed in North Carolina would block the deal unless Progress coughs up $2 billion toward a public power agency's debt.
By Ron Gallagher • June 8, 2012 -
Unmanaged demand from EVs would mean a major problem for PJM
The head of the mid-Atlantic distribution manager says smart-grid direction is essential to handle millions of recharging cars and trucks.
By Ron Gallagher • June 7, 2012 -
Electric utility industry undergoing structural evolution
Black & Veatch's annual report notes that smart-grid data outpace companies' and customers' abilities to use them.
By Ron Gallagher • June 6, 2012 -
Subnet provides substation automation for EPRI project
The company works with 22 of the top utilities in North America on secure remote substation access.
By Ron Gallagher • June 6, 2012 -
Smart-grid renewables integration stalled by 'electrophobia'
Companies have been uncomfortable with the fact that renewables are less consistent than conventional generation.
By Ron Gallagher • June 6, 2012 -
Tree-management lessons from October 2011 snow-storm
One issue investigators identified in a report just out was large, healthy trees falling onto lines from outside company rights of way.
By Ron Gallagher • June 6, 2012 -
Looking for Unisource? Try "UNS" now
The Arizona utility has taken on a name change. The original stemmed from deregulation that didn't happen.
By Ron Gallagher • June 5, 2012 -
Survey: 'Structural evolution' under way in electric utility industry
Black & Veatch says new technology and regulatory shifts are impacting all aspects of the electric industry.
By Ron Gallagher • June 4, 2012 -
El Paso Electric Announces New COO
Hector R. Puente moves up from senior vice president of operations and distribution
By Ron Gallagher • June 1, 2012
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