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Cooper Power Systems and CGI Announce Partnership to Deliver Smart Grid Projects

Cooper Power Systems, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), and CGI Group Inc. more...
Filed under: Grid Operations

Critical Infrastructure Industries (CII) Applaud Release Of FCC's National Broadband Plan

Several associations representing U.S. critical infrastructure industries this week applauded the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) efforts to craft a National Broadband Plan. more...
Filed under: Communications & Security

Central Hudson Conducting Self-Assessment Phase of Storm Response

In the aftermath of the most significant storm event in its history, Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, subsidiary of CH Energy Group, Inc. more...
Filed under: Grid Operations

Canadian Electricity Provider BC Hydro Selects Telvent for Sustainable Electric Grid Solution

Telvent (NASDAQ: TLVT), the IT company for a sustainable and secure world, announced today it will supply the Telvent Distribution Management System (DMS) to BC Hydro. more...
Filed under: Grid Operations

BPLG Collaborates with Advanced Innovations on Demand Management

BPL Global(R), Ltd. (BPLG), a smart grid technology company dedicated to leading the transformation of energy efficiency and reliability, today announced collaboration with Advanced Innovations, Inc. (AI), a global provider of electronics design, manufacturing and supply-chain solutions. more...
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Reshaping the Customer Relationship through Smart Grid

Mar 18, 2010 - 12:00 ET - Your City

Join distinguished industry leaders and Marty Rosenberg, editor-in-chief of EnergyBiz magazine, to discuss how smart grid is causing utilities and their customers to fundamentally rethink how they do business. more...

Filed under: Grid Operations

Securing Applications across a Multi-Tier Smart Grid Network

Mar 30, 2010 - Internet

This webinar discusses how an integrated multi-tier communications network can be partitioned into virtual network domains to ensure end-to-end security and QoS for Smart Grid applications. more...

Filed under: Grid Operations

Take the Next Step with Mobility in the Field

Mar 30, 2010 - 2:00 P.M. PST - Your City

Join industry experts from Ventyx, Panasonic and Sybase on Tuesday March 30th at 2:00pm EDT for a one hour webcast on how you can take the next step in mobile workforce management. The webcast will provide a comprehensive mobile strategy that includes the right devices, the right applications and the more...

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KEMA's 21st Executive Forum

Mar 30, 2010 - Mar 31, 2010 - Irving, TX - USA

As the leading event in the US retail energy industry, KEMA's Executive Forum will gather senior executives, regulators, energy buyers, investors and other stakeholders from across North America to discuss the key business and policy issues facing retail energy markets.

Join 300 senior energy industry professionals, state and federal regulators, more...

Filed under: Grid Operations

US Wind Energy Operations and Maintenance Summit

Apr 20, 2010 - Apr 21, 2010 - Dallas, TX - USA

Operating and Maintaining wind farms costs big money and can make a big dent in your bottom line. But that cost can be significantly reduced by adopting outstanding O&M strategies that will reduce downtime and improve the performance of your wind farm. more...

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Essentials of Energy Risk Management

Apr 13, 2010 - Apr 14, 2010 - Houston, TX - USA

The volatility of energy prices has highlighted the need for energy professionals in all areas to develop a functional proficiency in the management of energy risks. This program imparts a practical understanding of the array of tools and concepts that are at the core of the contemporary energy markets. more...

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Electric Business Understanding Seminar

Apr 19, 2010 - Apr 20, 2010 - Chicago, IL - USA

Electric Business Understanding provides a comprehensive overview of the electric industry. Position yourself for career advancement by gaining a solid understanding of how the electric business works including key physical, market, and regulatory aspects and how market participants navigate this complex business to achieve success. See event website for additional more...

Filed under: Metering

Electric Market Dynamics Seminar

Apr 21, 2010 - Apr 22, 2010 - Chicago, IL - USA

Electric Market Dynamics offers participants an in-depth understanding of North American electric markets and how they function. Enhance your career by furthering your knowledge of market structures, pricing mechanisms, services offered in markets, and how various participants use the markets to manage risk and enhance opportunity. See event website for more...

Filed under: Metering
 
 

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS CONTINUED

Quebec puts its power on the line

Quebec is New York state's largest trading partner, but what it really wants to do is sell the Empire State lots of clean power. more...
Filed under: Grid Operations

GEUS: No 'smart meters' for homes in Greenville

None of the homes in Greenville are hooked up to the so-called "smart meters" which are the source of controversy across the State of Texas. more...
Filed under: Metering

Oncor Releases Week One Side-by-Side Results for Killeen

Oncor released the first results today for the side-by-side meter demonstration program for those participating homes in Killeen. more...
Filed under: Metering

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Vestas receives order for 42 MW for France

Vestas has received a combined order for a total of 21 units of the V90-2.0 MW turbine. more...
Filed under: Grid Operations

Leading Analyst Firm Lists Ventyx Solution at Xcel Energy Among "Handful" of Worldwide Virtual Power Plant Projects

Ventyx, the world's largest private software, data and advisory services provider to the energy and utility industry, today announced that the successful implementation of its Smart Grid Operations solution at Xcel Energy has been recognized by leading industry analyst firm IDC Energy Insights as one of the few Virtual Power Plant (VPP) projects currently being deployed around the world. more...
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Trilliant Announces Smart Grid Industry's First Integration of NAN and WAN Tiers

Trilliant Incorporated, a leader in delivering Smart Grid solutions that enhance energy efficiency, utility operations, and renewable resource integration, today announced the SecureMeshTM Bridge products, which integrate a Wide Area Network (WAN) for distribution and a Neighborhood Area Network (NAN) for metering. more...
Filed under: Communications & Security

Central Hudson Provides Mutual Aid Crews to Assist in Power Restoration in Southeastern New York

Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, in cooperation with the New York Mutual Aid Group, is providing 20 electric line crews and support personnel, approximately 50 employees in total, to assist Orange and Rockland utility crews in restoring power in the aftermath of a severe wind and rainstorm that struck the region over the weekend. more...
Filed under: Grid Operations

American Transmission Co. Completes Work on Cost-Saving Power Line

American Transmission Co. has put into service a new, 35-mile high-voltage electric transmission line in south central Wisconsin that provides local electric utilities with improved access to the regional energy market to buy and sell electricity when it is economic to do so. more...
Filed under: Grid Operations

OG&E Seeks Approval to Begin Systemwide Installation of Smart Technology

OG&E today filed an application with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission seeking approval to install smart meters and related technology across the company's Oklahoma service area. more...
Filed under: Grid Operations

Oncor Releases Week One Side-by-Side Results for Temple

Oncor released the first results today for the side-by-side meter demonstration program for those participating homes in Temple. more...
Filed under: Metering

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ARTICLES

The Looming Smart Grid Security Crisis: Lessons learned from online banking provide the blueprint

By Dan Pearl -
On November 8, 2009 on CBS's 60 Minutes, Retired Admiral Mike McConnell equated the threat that the United States faces today from cyber attackers to more...
Filed under: Communications & Security

Smart Grid 2.0

By Jack Ellis -
Back in 2005, a couple of engineers used the term "Smart Grid" to describe their vision of an advanced power system. Particularly in the aftermath more...
Filed under: Grid Operations

How Essential is the Smart Grid?

By Shehu Khaleel -
Utility companies generate, transmit and distribute energy to consumers. This can be done more efficiently, cost-effectively and remain sustainable by designing an electric system that more...
Filed under: Grid Operations

Inducing Private Investment for Grids

By Jeff Dalebroux -
There has been much discussion about the need for increased transmission capability and the so-called smart grid. The need has been framed in terms of more...
Filed under: Grid Operations

Smart Forecasting for a Smarter Grid

By Michael Price -
Most successful smart metering programs focus on business process management to maximize benefits (e.g., operational improvements) enabled by an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). Improved data more...
Filed under: Grid Operations
 
 

ENERGY BLOGS

Bipartisan Group of 29 Governors Urges Action on Wind Energy

By Tom Gray - The bipartisan Governors' Wind Energy Coalition today urged Congress to enact a renewable electricity standard (RES) and other policies so more...

Green technology helping Grow the Economy are Not Linked to Fact

By Michael Edwards - [External Link] it has been reported that for every green job created in Spain they have lost two jobs. The fact more...

Big Players Not Waiting for Standards

Blogger Photo By Stephen Daniels - In the rush to get meters in the field and tout Success with a capital S, many utilities may be more...

Is the Smart Grid that is Being Pushed a Costly Mistake?

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - The main argument is that, by inaction, each State Government should be responsible to their constituencies for a very costly more...

Unleashing Design Thinking in the Power Industry by Reframing

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Design Thinking demand side radical disruptive innovations to the power industry at the "fuzzy front end" are facilitated with a more...

Another Institutional Memory Warning: Do today's power grids have little centralized control?

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Smart Grid Command & Control: The Death of the Giant Brain in the Sky, an article written by Jesse Berst more...
 

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