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Sage Grouse May Delay Wood River Power Lines
May 22 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Kimberlee Kruesi The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho - A future transmission line project south of the Wood River Valley has become the next to face potential delays due to its location on priority sage grouse habitat. More...
Winter Park buries power lines in project that may last 17 years
May 21 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Anika Myers Palm The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. - The Winter Park of 2029 will look different from today's city in at least one big way: Most of the city won't have power poles or overhead electrical lines. More...
Utilities to spend millions on grid
May 21 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - George Hohmann Charleston Daily Mail, W.Va. - The two largest electric companies in West Virginia say millions of dollars of upgrades approved by the region's grid operator will maintain reliable electric power supplies in the wake of recently announced power plant retirements. More...
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FishHawk area targeted for high-voltage lines
May 21 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Yvette C. Hammett Tampa Tribune, Fla. - Some FishHawk Ranch residents are scrambling to divert a proposed high voltage power line corridor away from their homes. More...
SDG&E Files Application to Increase Reliability in South Orange County
SAN DIEGO, May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire - San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) today submitted an application to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for approval of a project designed to increase the reliability of the substation and transmission system in the northern part of SDG&E's service area. More...
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Offshore energy sources and climate challenge – Part 1 – Destruction Factor and Availability Factor

Blogger Photo By Chavdar Azarov -   In regard of accelerating climate change and anomalies the offshore power industry may have to re-estimate its performance and more...

Reliable, Resilient and Secure - Does your Smart Grid Communication Infra deliver on it's promise?

Blogger Photo By Devendra Vishwakarma - Everybody in Power Systems and Utilities community will agree to the fact that Reliable, Resilient and Secure Communications infrastructure is more...

Break Through in IT and Control Systems can lead to Plug and Play Smart Grid Systems

By Alok Misra - Recent Advances in ITand Control Systems can very early lead to Plug and Play Smart Grid systems. However the lacking more...

How Not to do a reform Programme - Test Case India

By Alok Misra - Electricity reforms and technlogy development in Utilities especially in India have been long due.Those utilities who have had an interacrtion more...

What Basic Competance is Required for Smart Grid and why this is the restraining factor

By Alok Misra - One of the most basic competance required for building the smart grid is the ability to integrate meter readings/ simulation more...
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Customer Analytics Issues, Trends, & Drivers

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

Learn how utilities are realizing the full potential from new customer data in this free Executive Insights webcast, which will include lessons from utilities in the field, as well as an overview of results from the Utility Analytics Institute's Annual 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 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...
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 Monday Jun 25, 2012 - Tuesday Jun 26, 2012 - London

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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 generate nuclear electric power near more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

There's an App for Achieving a Smarter Grid Today

By James Mustarde
The water-cooler discussion these days is about how media over hyped Hurricane Irene. However, I'd venture a guess that the millions of consumers who lost power, as well as the utility companies who worked tirelessly more...
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Hurricane Irene, Nikola Tesla, and Improving Outage Management

By Tim Taylor
On Sunday August 28, the center of the hurricane/tropic storm named Irene went about 30 miles west of Shoreham, NY, located on the Long Island Sound. Being on the east side of the storm, Shoreham more...
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Three Big Band-Aids

By Gay Gordon-Byrne
These three terms are deeply deceptive marketing terms intended to hide the very real problems of electronic equipment in the field. The fact is that electronics break a lot. If they didn't break, networks wouldn't more...
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Turning On The Lights For Customer Service Appointments

By Jennifer Friedman
When the power goes out, the last thing an energy provider wants to do is keep their customers in the dark. But many utilities are still far behind the times when it comes to mobile more...
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