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New power line to go up

PPL officials say a new $11.5 million, 11- to 12-mile long power line, will improve service for customers in a portion of Northumberland, Snyder and Juniata counties, which has been experiencing a high number of power outages. more...
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BRIEF: Cielo Vista residents suffer power outage

EL PASO -- More than 5,000 customers lost power Wednesday night in the Cielo Vista area and other parts of the East Side. more...
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Siemens to expand power supply network in the United Arab Emirates

Siemens Energy has received an order worth approximately EUR30 million from Dubai-based Federal Electricity and Water Authority (FEWA) as part of power supply network expansion. more...
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NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT: Minister agrees to smart meter recommendations

Minister agrees to smart meter recommendations more...
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Oncor begins smart meter testing in Oak Cliff

Oncor continued its efforts on Tuesday to convince North Texans that smart meters are accurate, as protesters shouted they are not. more...
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Smart Grid Webinar: WAN Communications for Distribution Networking

Mar 17, 2010 - 1:00 PM EST - Internet

This webinar discusses the role of the distribution grid within the context of a broader Smart Grid communications network. 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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS CONTINUED

Echelon's Smart Grid System Passes Two Million Meter Mark

Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) today announced the shipment of its two millionth Networked Energy Services (NES) smart meter. more...
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Pulaski Gets Top Marks from Metering International for Innovative Smart Grid Deployment

pioneering Smart Grid project that is bringing economic and operational benefits to a Tennessee municipality earned Pulaski Electric System (PES) the 2010 Award of Excellence for Innovation from Metering International. more...
Filed under: Communications & Security

Power back on after outage affects 10,000 in Winston-Salem

Power is back on in western Winston-Salem, after an outage that lasted about an hour, snarling traffic and causing some businesses to temporarily shut down. more...
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CalAmp and Kepware Partner for SmartGrid Communications

CalAmp Corp. (NASDAQ: CAMP), a leading provider of wireless products, services and solutions, and Kepware Technologies, the leader in communications for automation, today introduced the Air Traffic Controller (ATC), a distributed communications processor that optimizes bandwidth over wireless networks. more...
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Group divided on endorsing route for high-voltage power line

Champaign County's economic development group wants a high-voltage power line to help serve the University of Illinois. more...
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Itron Ships its 30 Millionth Gas AMR/AMI Module

Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) announced today that it has shipped its 30 millionth gas AMR/AMI module from its Waseca, Minn., manufacturing plant. The recipient is Atlanta Gas Light, a subsidiary of AGL Resources, a longtime Itron customer and natural gas distributor. more...
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Residential 'microgrid' community to inform smart grid market model

KEMA has partnered with Dutch energy research center ECN, advanced software company Humiq and utility Essent to create a living smart grid demonstration community. more...
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CalAmp Licenses Kepware Communications Technology for Its New Air Traffic Controller Appliance for SmartGrid Applications

CalAmp Corp. (NASDAQ: CAMP), a leading provider of wireless products, services and solutions, and Kepware Technologies, the leader in communications for automation, today introduced the Air Traffic Controller (ATC), a distributed communications processor that optimizes bandwidth over wireless networks. more...
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ABB wins $22 million power orders in India

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won orders worth $22 million from Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (HVPNL), a state-owned power utility in northern India to provide four turnkey substations for the regional grid. more...
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PUC kills certificate of need for Big Stone II lines

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has killed the certificate of need for the transmission lines that would have served the failed Big Stone II power plant in eastern South Dakota. more...
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ARTICLES

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...
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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...
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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...
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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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ENERGY BLOGS

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...

Monitoring System for Overhead Line Conductors. Meeting the demands of a changing power environment

Blogger Photo By LIOS Technology - Providing sufficient electrical power reliably requires ongoing monitoring of temperatures within overhead transmission lines that are more susceptible to atmospheric more...

Economic and Environmental Impact of Abu Dhabi US$1billion CO2 capture and storage Project

Blogger Photo By Shehu Khaleel - UAE has one of the highest per capita carbon emission rates in the world given its massive use of fossil more...

Smart grid is just the start…

Blogger Photo By POWER-GEN Europe - The concept of a smart grid powers up imaginations around the world—and not just inside the energy industry. The cultural more...
 

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