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  • Entergy introduces iPhone app for customers

    The energy provider's app will offer access to account information, company news, nuclear energy basics and performance details.

    By June 26, 2012
  • Reliant to offer Nest Learning Thermostats in Texas

    The Reliant Learn and Conserve Plan will urge customers to choose energy-efficient temperatures according to lifestyles and time spent at home.

    By June 25, 2012
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    AI in the Power Sector

    Artificial intelligence is uniquely positioned to impact the electricity industry from both ends: as the technology driving large load demand growth and as a tool with the potential to make the power system more efficient. 

    By Utility Dive staff
  • BlueStar Energy switching names to become AEP Energy

    Energy supply and energy management operations will be conducted under the new name to reflect BlueStar's acquisition by AEP.

    By June 25, 2012
  • American Public Power Association names new officers

    Washington, D.C., June 20, 2012 — Phyllis Currie, general manager of Pasadena Water and Power in California, was installed as chair of the American Public Power Association board of directors yesterday at the association's National Conference in Seattle, Wash. Currie joined Pasadena ...

    By Lindsey Smith • June 25, 2012
  • DTE Energy announces senior leadership changes

    Detroit, June 25, 2012 — DTE Energy announced promotions and leadership development moves that include Peter Oleksiak being named senior vice president of finance and James Tompkins being named vice president, effective Sept. 1, 2012. "These leadership changes continue our efforts t...

    By Lindsey Smith • June 25, 2012
  • Clark Public Utilities announces program with Facebook application for customers

    The new app will encourage friendly competition among customers to cut back on energy use.  

    By Lindsey Smith • June 25, 2012
  • For utility customers, contact with their providers is about billing and payment

    More than utilities seem to understand, billing and payments are what customers care about when going to companies' websites.

    By Ron Gallagher • June 23, 2012
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    Industry challenges FERC on demand response

    Utilities say the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission went too far in Order 745 on demand response.

    By Ron Gallagher • June 23, 2012
  • DTE Energy is making leadership changes, most in financial areas

    Five changes are being made, including two vice presidents swapping areas of responsibility.

    By Ron Gallagher • June 22, 2012
  • An optimistic view on the future of solar and wind energy

    Brad Plumer, a reporter from the Washington Post, draws from the latest research on renewable energy to argue that the future will be more reliant on solar and wind energy than often predicted.

    By Shehryar Nabi • June 21, 2012
  • 11 mobile energy applications

    Mobile energy apps offer consumers solutions to change how they manage their household and vehicle energy use.

    By Shehryar Nabi • June 21, 2012
  • The Optimal Grid, Part II: We better get used to dealing with smart customers

    Customers are more aware of their part in the energy system and want more than just bills from their providers.

    By Ron Gallagher • June 20, 2012
  • GridSense announces new substation monitoring application at two utilities

    The company says its overhead-line technology provides information for substations that lack data-reporting capabilities.

    By Ron Gallagher • June 20, 2012
  • What utilities can learn from SRP and SMUD

    Vermont Law School is out with a study of how the two utilities have gone about implementing smart grids.

    By Ron Gallagher • June 20, 2012
  • Protecting mission-critical utility customers in an increasingly digital age

    Bigger, more data-heavy networks help performance, but offer places that need to be defended against cyber attacks.

    By Ron Gallagher • June 20, 2012
  • Bonneville administrator and CEO Steve Wright to retire

    Wright will leave the Bonneville Power Administration at the end of January after helping with his yet-to-be-named successor's transition.

    By Ron Gallagher • June 19, 2012
  • NREL: Renewables can meet 80% of U.S. generation in 2050

    The federal research center says flexibility in generation, transmission and distribution is key to getting to that point.

    By Ron Gallagher • June 19, 2012
  • SDG&E's 117-mile Sunrise Powerlink is energized

    A year and a half in construction, the 500,000-volt line ties San Diego to the Imperial Valley's renewable resources.

    By Ron Gallagher • June 18, 2012
  • 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
  • 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