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Mar 11 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Daniel Borunda El Paso Times, Texas - EL PASO -- More than 5,000 customers lost power Wednesday night in the Cielo Vista area and other parts of the East Side. More...
Power back on after outage affects 10,000 in Winston-Salem
Mar 8 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. - 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...
Group divided on endorsing route for high-voltage power line
Mar 8 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Don Dodson The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. - Champaign County's economic development group wants a high-voltage power line to help serve the University of Illinois. More...
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Residential 'microgrid' community to inform smart grid market model
KEMA - 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...
PUC kills certificate of need for Big Stone II lines
Mar 8 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - David Little West Central Tribune, Willmar, Minn. - 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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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

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Smart grid is just the start…

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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...

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...

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 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.

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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 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 more...
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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 integrates smart devices, critical data and two-way communication between the 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 repair of deteriorating infrastructure, energy independence and security, and economic 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 visibility, frequency, and quality enabled by AMI technologies, can enhance more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

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 generating facilities to their customers. Since the utility companies built more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

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 when making investments in a smarter grid? more...
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