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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 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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Utilities are preparing to spend billions building out transmission at a time when affordability is a major concern.Get a handle on what’s at stake and the solutions being offered in this trendline.
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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 -
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
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