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A Useful Thing Happened on the way to the Smart Grid: the Agile Grid, Part 4
The concept of an intelligent electric utility infrastructure or "Smart Grid" is attracting wide interest among utilities, consultants, regulators and other utility stakeholders. This interest, however, is accompanied by widely...
Management In Real Life: My Contribution
Have you ever sat around griping about a boss, manager, or co-worker who doesn't "get it" or acts like they know it all? You're not alone; my hand goes up,...
Ills of Indian Energy Sector and Strategies to Overcome
Asian development bank report projected India's total energy consumption at 1279 MTOE by 2030. Per capita electricity consumption for India stood at 631 Kwh as compared to US per capita...
Offshore wind: Comprehensive initial study is critical
Utilities have begun considering offshore wind as a source of new energy. Delmarva Power recently agreed to a long-term offshore wind power purchase contract, and organizations such as Long Island...
Managing Tree-caused Electric Service Interruptions
Throughout their one hundred year history, utilities have been challenged by tree-conductor conflicts. On transmission systems tree-conductor contacts can have devastating results as demonstrated by the fact that trees were...
The Greenstuff File
As Snow White grew older, she had more difficulty using all those new fangled labor saving and communications devices around the cottage. She began to give her seven renewable energy...
Self-Service Payment: Take the Money
Residential customers want to give you their money. That's the good news. The bad news is utilities are making it hard for customers to hand it over. Research conducted in...
The Smart Grid Ready Framework, Part I
The smart grid is a rapidly evolving combination of new intelligent networks, information systems and regulations. The promise of smart grid is to allow utilities and consumers to manage energy...
A Suggested Component-Level, Units-of-Production Plant Depreciation Method
Because of the intermittent nature of green technology power production, fossil-fired plants will be cycled more and more as wind and solar generation comprise an ever increasing percent of total...
The Information River
By Joe KovacsInformation has become one of the most valuable commodities as emerging technologies help individuals manage data with ease and reliability. For utilities, the smart grid is creating opportunities to learn...
