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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
  • Utility maintenance trucks drive past downed power lines on their way to make repairs August 15, 2004 in Punta Gorda, Florida. Explore the Trendline
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    Grid 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.

    By Utility Dive staff
  • 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