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Cooper Power Systems - Utilities face significant challenges: An aging infrastructure, reliability, and regulation are current top concerns. more...
North Carolina Emerges as Smart Grid Technology Hub
ABB Inc. - ABB's new Smart Grid Center of Excellence is the nation's first-of-its-kind demonstration center and testing lab using cutting-edge Smart Grid software and equipment aimed at improving reliability in the midst of extreme weather. more...
Turkish Power Distributor Licenses Ventyx Mobile Workforce Management Solution
Ventyx, An ABB Company - Ventyx, an ABB company, today announced a new contract with Enerjisa Baskent Electricity Distribution Company for the latest release of Ventyx's mobile workforce management (MWFM) software solution, Service Suite, to support its field service operations. more...
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North American Utility Selects ViryaNet Mobile Workforce Management Solution
ViryaNet - ViryaNet Limited (OTCQB: VRYAF), a leading provider of software solutions that optimize the planning, execution, and monitoring of service processes for mobile workforces, announced today that a North American utility has selected ViryaNet's mobile workforce management solution. more...
Oracle Announces Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management 2.1 and Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Analytics
Oracle - Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management 2.1 and Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Analytics, which help utilities to improve field service efficiency, customer service and system reliability. more...
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ENERGY BLOGS

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...

Facilities Engineer App on Android / Apple

Blogger Photo By Darin Jones - The FE App/Facilities Engineer app is something that I have created to help busy engineers that have 1000 things going more...

Telecom and Utilities Converge in Areas of Smart Grid

Blogger Photo By Chris Lewis -   By: Juliet Shavit, President and CEO of SmartMark Communications, LLC Over the last decade, the telecommunications industry has undergone more...

DistribuTECH – An Ecosystem of Innovation

Blogger Photo By Jay Cappy - This is what DistribuTECH is all about.  The convention helps provide the showcase for the innovation that is needed to more...

DistribuTECH and the Ninety-Seven Percent

Blogger Photo By Ernie Hayden - As DistribuTECH gets underway this year in San Antonio, the focus will be on the lower voltage systems all our 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...
Filed Under Grid Operations

Aging Workers Won't Leave Utilities in the Dark

By Joe Kovacs
The utility industry is getting older. By some estimates, nearly half of today's workforce will be eligible for retirement in the next decade. Years of hard-won knowledge seemed doomed to disappear just as utilities are more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

Mash-in: KCP&L and Con Edison Draw in the Web

By Mike Breslin
As utilities turn to the latest applications available to them to more quickly manage reliability and outage management issues, mobile workforce management becomes more real-time, as well. Here, we look at two utilities using Web more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

Sensing Limbs: Electronic Vegetation Management in Action

By William Atkinson
For most utilities, using smart grid technology for vegetation management information is still in the theoretical stages, and it will be well into the future before it is actually implemented. A few utilities, however, are more...
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Critical Infrastructure Projects Need Upgraded Emergency Plans

By Samuel Mullen
Today's smart-grid and critical infrastructure projects represent significant expense and exposure to risk and require dedicated planning. Project plans should show that utility project managers have carefully considered how the loss or compromise of any more...
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