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Quebec puts its power on the line

Mar 16 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Larry Rulison Albany Times Union, N.Y. - Quebec is New York state's largest trading partner, but what it really wants to do is sell the Empire State lots of clean power. More...

Vestas receives order for 42 MW for France

Vestas American Wind Technology, Inc. - Vestas has received a combined order for a total of 21 units of the V90-2.0 MW turbine. more...

Leading Analyst Firm Lists Ventyx Solution at Xcel Energy Among "Handful" of Worldwide Virtual Power Plant Projects

Ventyx - Ventyx, the world's largest private software, data and advisory services provider to the energy and utility industry, today announced that the successful implementation of its Smart Grid Operations solution at Xcel Energy has been recognized by leading industry analyst firm IDC Energy Insights as one of the few Virtual Power Plant (VPP) projects currently being deployed around the world. more...

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Trilliant Announces Smart Grid Industry's First Integration of NAN and WAN Tiers

Trilliant Networks, Inc. - Trilliant Incorporated, a leader in delivering Smart Grid solutions that enhance energy efficiency, utility operations, and renewable resource integration, today announced the SecureMeshTM Bridge products, which integrate a Wide Area Network (WAN) for distribution and a Neighborhood Area Network (NAN) for metering. more...

Central Hudson Provides Mutual Aid Crews to Assist in Power Restoration in Southeastern New York

Central Hudson - March 15, 2010 - Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, in cooperation with the New York Mutual Aid Group, is providing 20 electric line crews and support personnel, approximately 50 employees in total, to assist Orange and Rockland utility crews in restoring power in the aftermath of a severe wind and rainstorm that struck the region over the weekend. More...

American Transmission Co. Completes Work on Cost-Saving Power Line

PEWAUKEE, Wis., Mar 15, 2010 -- BUSINESS WIRE - American Transmission Co. has put into service a new, 35-mile high-voltage electric transmission line in south central Wisconsin that provides local electric utilities with improved access to the regional energy market to buy and sell electricity when it is economic to do so. More...

OG&E Seeks Approval to Begin Systemwide Installation of Smart Technology

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - OG&E today filed an application with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission seeking approval to install smart meters and related technology across the company's Oklahoma service area. More...

New power line to go up

Mar 13 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Tricia Pursell The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pa. - 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...

BRIEF: Cielo Vista residents suffer power outage

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...

Siemens to expand power supply network in the United Arab Emirates

Siemens Energy, Inc. - 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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Bipartisan Group of 29 Governors Urges Action on Wind Energy

By Tom Gray - The bipartisan Governors' Wind Energy Coalition today urged Congress to enact a renewable electricity standard (RES) and other policies so more...

Green technology helping Grow the Economy are Not Linked to Fact

By Michael Edwards - [External Link] it has been reported that for every green job created in Spain they have lost two jobs. The fact more...

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...
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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...

Securing Applications across a Multi-Tier Smart Grid Network

 Mar 30, 2010 - Internet

This webinar discusses how an integrated multi-tier communications network can be partitioned into virtual network domains to ensure end-to-end security and QoS for Smart Grid applications. more...

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 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

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Essentials of Energy Risk Management

 Apr 13, 2010 - Apr 14, 2010 - Houston, TX - USA

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