$2 Billion Of Investments In Power Grid To Ease Power Plant Retirements

The PJM Interconnection Board today approved nearly $2 billion in electric transmission upgrades that will maintain reliable electric power supplies in the wake of recently announced power plant retirements. more...

ISO Helps Advance Mini-Solar Plants and Other Distributed Generation

Commercial rooftop solar arrays and other small scale generation will find it easier to connect directly to local electricity grids. more...

BP And Sempra U.S. Gas & Power Announce Plans To Jointly Develop Hawaii Wind Farm

Sempra U.S. Gas & Power and BP Wind Energy today announced plans to jointly develop the Auwahi Wind farm in Hawaii. more...

Coalition for Fair Transmission Policy Statement on FERC's Denial of Rehearing on Order 1000

The Coalition for Fair Transmission Policy today expressed concern with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision to deny rehearing of Order 1000 on transmission planning and cost allocation. more...

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Demystifying Utility Analytics -- What it's all about, where it's going, and how to get started.

Monday May 21, 2012 - 11:00 AM Eastern - Virtual Event

This webinar offers pragmatic advice for utilities that are considering data analytics investments; it shares insights from a utility that has been on the leading edge of the data analytics movement in power generation; and it discusses the opportunity to apply proven tools and key learnings to the many new challenges in the Smart Grid space. more...

Customer Analytics Issues, Trends, & Drivers

Wednesday May 30, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

Utilities have historically made significant investments in their customer care systems and processes, yielding a data-rich environment that is now being enhanced with the influx of smart meter data. Monthly meters yielding 12 annual data events per meter will be exploding to as many as 35,040 data events as utilities begin migrating to 15-minute interval reads. more...

Securing AMI at BC Hydro: The Benefits of a Multi-Layered Security Architecture

Thursday May 31, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

Cyber security is one of the top concerns for utilities that are implementing a smart grid network solution. Consumer privacy and data integrity are critical. The good news is that industry leaders have established proven processes and procedures to mitigate threats, improve resiliency and reduce risk. Join this discussion on how BC Hydro has applied both network and application layer security to bulletproof their multi-service smart grid infrastructure for their 1.8 million meter AMI deployment. more...

Consumer Engagement & the Role of Mobile Apps

Thursday Jun 7, 2012 - 11:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

The new consumer is a mobile consumer: always "on", 24/7. They prefer texting over e-mail, and e-mail over a phone call or face-to-face communication. more...

Smart Grid Analytics: All That Remains to be Ready is You

Tuesday Jun 12, 2012 - 1:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

Join us for a live smart grid analytics discussing real life case studies for how analytics can change the speed of business today, allowing users to unleash their creativity and focus on what matters: data-driven insights that benefit the business. more...

Peak Load Management Alliance Spring 2012 Conference, sponsored by Consolidated Edison

Monday May 21, 2012 - Wednesday May 23, 2012 - New York, New York - USA

With the help and sponsorship of Con Edison, PLMA is organizing a program featuring a keynote talk by the Honorable Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Commissioner Wellinghoff will be joined by Con Edison executives and other subject matter experts to discuss how demand response can be marketed and implemented in commercial and industrial markets. Regulatory issues will also be addressed. more...

Grid-Scale Energy Storage

Monday Jun 25, 2012 - Tuesday Jun 26, 2012 - London

SMi's Grid-Scale Energy Storage conference 25-26 June 2012, London provides distilled international perspectives on this exciting field. Our line-up of international experts features a hands-on, case study-driven approach from those at the sharp end of maintaining and sustaining energy provision needs. From integrating supercapacitors and thermal storage, to harnessing demand-side management, and utilising market reform to aid your business, gain the insights you need to remain competitive. more...

 
 

Rutgers Builds Solar-Powered Computing Center

Blogger Photo By Ben Lack -   Rutgers Builds Solar-Powered Computing Center Sixteen polycrystalline solar panels on top of a novel computing facility were recently installed more...

Energy Expert Dr. Daniel Fine -> I Spy Radio program +energy speculation, Shale Gas&Oil,elections

By Da Roberts - Hear Energy Expert Dr. Daniel Fine on the I Spy Radio program talking energy speculation, Shale Gas&Oil,Elections 2012 This Week more...

Energy efficiency: What are the laggards thinking?

Blogger Photo By Elisa Wood Lisa Cohn -   By Elisa Wood May 17, 2012   Why do some states avoid creating policies that encourage consumers and businesses more...

Here we go again--Give taxpayer money away for little gain

By Mark Wooldridge - Chu: "Clean Energy Revolution is Ripe for U.S. Leadership" - In his remarks to the media, as prepared for delivery, more...

These articles are always so nebulous

By Mark Wooldridge - Base breaks ground on solar project - The Marine Corps Logistics Base broke ground Monday morning on a solar photovoltaic more...

Storage – An Essential Part of the Grid Equation

Blogger Photo By Ben Lack -   Storage is an essential part of the grid equation. Smartgridnews states that energy storage is generally considered a critical more...
 

The Impossible Dream? Why Renewables Won't Reduce CO2 Emissions by Much

By Herbert Inhaber -
The solution to looming global warming? Easy. Reduce man-made emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) by cutting down on the use of fossil fuels -- coal, petroleum and natural gas. Leave more...
Filed under: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management

A Nuclear Dream From London

By Ferdinand E. Banks - During the 10 years of so that I taught international finance at Uppsala University (Sweden), I made two things clear: I didn't teach nonsense any longer (meaning a large part more...
Filed under: Nuclear

Management In Real Life: The Power of Positive Meeting

By Kevin Herring -
Why can't we all just get along? That's what John was wondering when he called to ask me if I could do some sort of team building exercise to fix more...
Filed under: Human Resourcess

Prospects to Trade Electric Power Across the Asia-Pacific Region

By Harry Valentine -
A variety of perspectives on the failure of Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant as a result of a tidal wave, have been published over that past several months. Japan does more...
Filed under: Grid Operations

Solutions for High Gas Prices

By Tam Hunt -
It is common knowledge that "there is no quick fix" for high gas prices. It's going to be a long-term effort to reduce our reliance on oil and we're probably more...
Filed under: Fossil & Biomass
 
 

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