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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...

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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Residents step up battle against PATH substation

Mar 6 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Ed Waters Jr. The Frederick News-Post, Md. - Although timing for the PATH project is still uncertain, residents in southern Frederick County are taking pre-emptive action to halt the plan. More...

Pittsburg eyes Southern California power project

Mar 06 - Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, Calif.) - The city plans to pursue a Southern California energy project that could bring millions into its coffers and reduce strain on the state's transmission grid. More...

Composite Technology Announces First ACCC(R) Conductor Line Completion in Portugal

Composite Technology Corporation (CTC) - Composite Technology Corporation (CTC) (OTCBB: CPTC) is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, CTC Cable Corporation, completed its first ACCC(R) conductor sale and installation in Portugal. more...

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Iberdrola Reneges on Promise to Seneca County

WATERLOO, N.Y, March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - The Seneca County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) has recently learned that New York State Electric & Gas Corp., a subsidiary of Bilbao, Spain- based Iberdrola S.A., is cutting plans for electrical upgrades to the former Seneca Army Depot, turning its back on more than a decade's worth of work, risking the loss of $2.25 million in grant funding, and jeopardizing future economic growth for Seneca County and the surrounding region. More...

Trinidad & Tobago Electricity Commission Selects OSI's monarchTM Technology for its Distribution Operations Modernization Project

Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) - Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been selected by the Trinidad & Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) to supply a comprehensive new Distribution SCADA system; intended to secure and modernize the national distribution grid of Trinidad & Tobago. more...

KEMA completes study of smart energy market

KEMA - KEMA (www.kema.com) completed its analysis of the smart energy market in Texas. more...

Entergy Earns 12th Consecutive Edison Electric Institute Award for Storm Response

NEW ORLEANS, March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) accepted a national award yesterday for its work restoring power following a destructive ice storm last year in Arkansas. More...

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White Papers:

GridCom(TM): A Secure Wide-Area Network Architecture for the Smart Grid

Smart Grids: Strategic Planning and Development

Oracle

MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT

Case Studies:

Shining the Light on Smart Grid Investments: A Duke Energy Case Study

Neptune Technology Group Case Study

Sybase

United Utilities Case Study

Sybase

Research Reports:

Electric Distribution Utility Roadmap, Phase II: Planning for Now and 2010

Location. Location. Location. Does it Matter in Mobile Field Service?

The Energy Matrix

ENERGY BLOGS

Unleashing Design Thinking in the Power Industry by Reframing

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?

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

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

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…

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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Webcasts
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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

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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