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Dominion Virginia Power Expects 98 Percent of Storm Restoration Will be Completed by Tonight

Thousands of Dominion Virginia Power employees and contractors have worked around the clock through the weekend to restore electric service to 271,000 of the 287,000 customers whose electricity was interrupted by the record-breaking winter storm. more...
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'Smart meters' give customers usage info

Thousands of area residents with electric meters that transmit usage data wirelessly soon will be able to examine their power habits online. more...
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About 23,000 Oklahomans still lack power

More than 23,000 homes and businesses are still without power a week after an ice storm rolled through the state, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission reported. more...
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Con Edison Crews to Help With Mid-Atlantic Power Restoration

Crews from Con Edison and Orange and Rockland Utilities Inc. more...
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Dominion Virginia Power Working to Restore Service to Customers Affected By Extreme Winter Storm

Dominion Virginia Power crews working in extremely difficult conditions have restored electric service to nearly half of the customers whose electricity has been interrupted by the record-breaking winter storm. more...
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21st Century T&D: Building the Transmission Piece of Smart Grid

Feb 18, 2010 - 12:00 Eastern - Your City

Join industry leaders and Marty Rosenberg, Editor-in-Chief of EnergyBiz magazine, for an interactive discussion about the critical relationship between transmission and distribution (T&D) investment and smart grid success. As the energy enterprise gets smarter toward the consumer end with smart meters and other new technologies what must be done to more...

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Transforming the Electrical Grid: Addressing Transformation Strategies to Implementing A Smart Grid

Feb 25, 2010 - 3:00-4:00pm Eastern - Your City

This webcast should be attended by those individuals that are responsible for identifying, planning and evaluating Smart Grid solutions, including those that empower and engage consumers and are easily assimilated with existing or new technology and business processes. more...

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Smart Grid Revolution

Feb 18, 2010 - Feb 19, 2010 - AUSTIN, TX - USA

ACI's Smart Grid Revolution February 18-19, 2010 A two day strategic event bringing together utility professionals, government & state officials & consultants involved in deployment of the smart grid. To learn strategies which will improve energy efficiency programs & operations, increase customer retention & reduce financial risk & volatility. Includes more...

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EnergyBiz Leadership Forum 2010: Energy's Emerging Architecture

Feb 28, 2010 - Mar 2, 2010 - Washington, DC

In 2009, a global economic meltdown collided with an energy crisis to turn the world on its ear. In the United States we've witnessed an unprecedented spending on energy resource development and infrastructure. As a result, a new energy architecture is emerging. What will this new structure of energy look more...

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Gas and Electric Business Understanding Seminar

Feb 24, 2010 - Feb 25, 2010 - New York, NY - USA

Gas and Electric Business Understanding provides a comprehensive overview of the natural gas and electric industries. Position yourself for career success by gaining a solid understanding of how each business works, including key physical, market and regulatory aspects, as well as who the players are and the strategies they pursue. more...

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Gas Business Understanding Seminar

Mar 1, 2010 - Mar 2, 2010 - Houston, TX - USA

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

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Electric Business Understanding Seminar

Mar 3, 2010 - Mar 4, 2010 - Houston, TX - 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...

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Gas Market Dynamics Seminar

Mar 3, 2010 - Mar 4, 2010 - Houston, TX - USA

Gas Market Dynamics offers participants an in-depth understanding of North American natural gas markets and how they function. Enhance your career by furthering your knowledge of market structure, supply and demand, services offered in gas markets, and how various participants use the markets to manage risk and enhance opportunity. more...

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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS CONTINUED

Boulder smart grid costs blow up, PUC orders more transparency

Xcel Energy has begun charging customers across the state to recoup some of the skyrocketing costs the company has incurred building its smart grid project in Boulder. more...
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Composite Technology Announces Line Completion in Belgium

Composite Technology Corporation (CTC) (OTCBB: CPTC) is pleased to announce the completion of the first ACCC(R) conductor transmission line in Belgium. more...
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SoCalGas and SDG&E Implement ClickSoftware's Mobility Solution for Integrated Mobile Workforce Management

ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd., (NasdaqGS: CKSW) the leading provider of workforce management and service optimization solutions, today announced that California-based Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) are implementing ClickSoftware's ClickMobile solution to provide a mobile field service application to its natural gas and electric distribution field work crews. more...
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Utility undergrounding continues

The future of utility undergrounding in Districts 12, 14 and 15 now lies in the hands of the property owners. more...
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Power Industry Speaks Out On Impending Energy Legislation

Congress is set to possibly adopt the most sweeping environmental and energy law in generations to address issues such as energy efficiency, renewables development and carbon emissions. more...
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About 46,500 customers still have no electricity in Oklahoma

The Oklahoma Emergency Management Department reported a sharp drop in the number of utility customers without power in the state, but the lights were still off for nearly 46,500 homes and businesses late this morning. more...
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Itron Smart Grid Solutions Recognized with GridVision Award

Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that it is the recipient of a GridVision award from the International Engineering Consortium (IEC). The award recognizes Itron's significant advances toward a smarter, more efficient and more reliable power grid. more...
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Wireless for power utilities

A Silicon Valley startup has combined the technology underlying WiMax with a software-defined radio to build smart grids for electric utilities. more...
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AEP wants better clearance for power lines

In the wake of a December snowstorm that knocked out service to more than 364,000 of its customers, Appalachian Power Co. more...
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New power lines' effect on Montanans hard to predict

As huge power line projects in Montana are pitched as the catalyst for a new wave of wind power development here, Public Service Commissioner Brad Molnar, R-Laurel, is asking whether the lines might end up harming Montana electricity consumers. more...
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ARTICLES

New Transmission Interconnection Procedures Needed for Independent Transmission Facilities

By Ann Warren -
Transmission facilities in the United States that distribute electrical power have traditionally been built by vertically integrated utility companies to transmit power from their own more...
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YouTube, iPhone Apps, Kindle and the Utility Franchise

By Mark Gabriel -
The explosion in consumer technologies and options, coupled with the utility industry's expansion into the smart grid, advanced meters and communications will do what all more...
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Tangled Network: Transmission or Meter Investments

By Kate Rowland -
It's as old a debate as the chicken and the egg, and as complicated as the Gordian knot. Should utilities tackle transmission or customers first more...
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Aging Workers Won't Leave Utilities in the Dark

By Joe Kovacs - The utility industry is getting older. By some estimates, nearly half of today's workforce will be eligible for retirement in the next decade. Years of more...
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Smart Meter + Slot Machine Security

By Mike Breslin - When Tommy Carmichael -- the world's greatest slot machine cheat -- wanted to illegally coax coins out of Las Vegas slot machines, his first step more...
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ENERGY BLOGS

A Single System & the Enterprise War

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - A single integrated emergent power service system is optimally structured into the enterprize and the grid subsystems, that are highly more...

Hot sectors for energy efficiency

Blogger Photo By Elisa Wood Lisa Cohn - By Elisa Wood February 4, 2010 It's clear that the energy efficiency industry is undergoing an unprecedented boom, spurred by more...

Conservator less power transformer

Blogger Photo By Ipsita Chaudhuri - what is conservator less power transformer..what is its design..how it is efficient than conservator plus power transformer? Is there any more...

Huge Value Destruction as Disruptive Technologies Impact the Smart Power Service

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Realizing Smart Grid Value Without Deploying Smart Meters is a highly relevant piece of news on the Smart Grid Observer more...

Regressive meters

Blogger Photo By Chavdar Azarov - Regressive meters Every building, facility and house has own EE – energy equivalent at its recognition and soon after that more...

Is the US Behind Germany in the Coming Energy Revolution

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio -   Taking in consideration the article Decentralizing Electricity: The Coming Energy Revolution, by Stefan Schultz in SPIEGEL ONLINE, I ask the more...
 

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