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Benefits to LA Utility From Improved Customer Bills
Redesigned bills have reduced customer calls to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
By Ron Gallagher • March 9, 2012 -
IEEE's Power Matters Alliance Goes 'Live'
Part of the Industry Connections program, the new effort focuses on wireless "Power 2.0."
By Ron Gallagher • March 9, 2012 -
Explore the Trendline➔
Mario Tama / Staff via Getty ImagesTrendlineGrid Resiliency
Utilities and grid operators are facing increasing threats from climate change as well as cyber and physical attacks, and are deploying a variety of responses to meet the rising challenges.
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Steal This Idea! Illinois Shoots to Be a Smart-Grid Hub
The state has a plan from which other locales might do well to borrow shamelessly.
By Ron Gallagher • March 8, 2012 -
Smart-Grid Consumer Privacy: A Little Myth, a Little Method
Ideas about what is private and what's not depend on whom you ask.
By Ron Gallagher • March 8, 2012 -
Smart Grid Labs: Testing the Future
Enernex has opened its Smart Grid Labs testing facility.
By Ron Gallagher • March 7, 2012 -
Power Prices May Skyrocket Without Smart Grid
The chair of the Global Smart Grid Federation sees that possibility.
By Ron Gallagher • March 7, 2012 -
U.S. Seeks Help With Smart-Grid Complexities
Seamless coordination is a problem in a sector that was built for something else and is always changing.
By Ron Gallagher • March 7, 2012 -
Proposals Sought for Largest-Ever Army Renewables Program
The service wants to make power-purchase agreements going out 30 years.
By Ron Gallagher • March 7, 2012 -
Pennsylvania OK's Constellation Energy Demand-Response Service
The company manages demand-response programs in the PJM grid, New England, New York, ERCOT, California and Ontario. As an approved demand response provider, Constellation Energy is pre-qualified to serve colleges, schools, local governments and state agencies.
By Ron Gallagher • March 7, 2012 -
ABB Lab Creates a Tempest Indoors for Smart-Grid Research
On the campus of N.C. State University in Raleigh, ABB's simulator is a mini-network for study.
By Ron Gallagher • March 6, 2012 -
M&A: Good News Ahead (And Some Not So Good)
A business intelligence company looks at the smart grid sector through 2016.
By Ron Gallagher • March 6, 2012 -
Price Tag to Link Europe's Renewables: $137 Billion
That's what system operators think it will cost to integrate new energy sources.
By Ron Gallagher • March 6, 2012 -
AEP Ohio Modifies Electric Security Plan
The company told the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio that it intends to file a modified plan by the end of March.
By Ron Gallagher • March 6, 2012 -
Ameren Illinois Files Infrastructure Upgrade Plan
The company Monday laid out a six-part program, including smart meters for about 62 percent of its customers.
By Ron Gallagher • March 6, 2012 -
Odyne Systems Delivers DOE-Supported Plug-In Hybrids to Utilities
Four utilities are among companies adding Odyne hybrid trucks to their fleets.
By Ron Gallagher • March 5, 2012 -
Xcel Gets Rate Hike, Customer Rebate Approval
North Dakota regulators gave their OK to the new revenue for tree-trimming and infrastructure improvements.
By Sean Griffey • March 2, 2012 -
Cisco Substation Automation Architecture Overview
A video from the gear-maker offers a look at how it connects with Cisco routers and switches.
By Ron Gallagher • March 1, 2012 -
New NIST Framework Makes for 97 Smart Grid Standards
The NIST has released version 2.0 of its Smart Grid Interoperability Standards.
By Ron Gallagher • March 1, 2012 -
IDC Energy Insights Reports on U.S., World Utilities
SmartGrid News is providing readers a chance to purchase a range of reports from IDC Energy Insights.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 29, 2012 -
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative to Use Apogee Interactive Billing
The installation will be at Prince George Electric Cooperative, one of 11 ODEC members.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 28, 2012 -
JCP&L to Invest $200 Million to Enhance Reliability
The company has an eight-part project list to accomplish the goal.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 28, 2012 -
GE Launches Next-Generation Fault Restoration
GE says its system can cut typical customer outage time from hours to under a minute.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 27, 2012 -
ITC, Kansas Utilities Set Agreement for Transmission Projects
ITC Great Plains LLC, Sunflower Electric Power Corp. and Mid-Kansas Electric Company, LLC
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 24, 2012 -
Ariz. Public Service Testing New Storage Device
A two-year test will evaluate a facility to store 1.5 megawatt-hours of power for the system.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 24, 2012 -
Finding Value in DR, DG
Demand response (DR) and distributed generation (DG) are underutilized assets
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 24, 2012