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High-tech copter takes measurements for Chelan PUD
May 17 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Christine Pratt The Wenatchee World, Wash. - A bright blue Canadian helicopter fitted with two cameras and a computer system chopped through Chelan County skies Friday and Saturday and shot millions of laser beams at the ground. More...
ABB strengthens global lead in enterprise asset management software market
ABB Inc. - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has advanced its position as a world-leading supplier of enterprise asset management (EAM) software, according to newly released findings from ARC Advisory Group, a leading research and advisory firm. more...
ABB to deliver advanced asset management solution to Australian electricity companies
ABB Inc. - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has signed an agreement with SPARQ Solutions, the IT services provider for Australian electricity distributors Energex and Ergon Energy. more...
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Nebraska Public Power District Chooses Oniqua MRO Analytics
Oniqua MRO Analytics - Oniqua MRO Analytics (www.oniqua.com), the leading provider of analytics-based MRO optimization solutions for asset-intensive organizations, today announced that Nebraska Public Power District has chosen Oniqua Analytics Solution (OAS) to optimize its MRO inventory activities, which include cost management, controlling inventory growth levels and improving critical material availability across its operations. more...
ScottMadden Insight: Managing Generation Assets, a G&T Cooperative Strategic Priority
ScottMadden, Inc. - ScottMadden, Inc., one of North America's leading energy consulting firms, recently published "Managing Generation Assets, a G&T Cooperative Strategic Priority." This is the second in a series of ScottMadden insights into the "Five Strategic Priorities for Generation and Transmission Cooperatives." more...
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Smart Grids: The Challenges of Complexity and Data Volume

Blogger Photo By Bryan Truex - Essentially, the term “smart grid” refers to the digitizing of the electricity delivery system through the installation of devices that more...

Analytics Make Smart Grids Smarter

Blogger Photo By Bryan Truex - The advent of smart grid and smart meter technology is changing the utility industry’s business model. As a result, utility more...

FERC's Order 1000 as a Potential Example of Over-Regulated America

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - As a short, simple (but not simplistic), and highly important complement to the blog post Is Power Industry Regulation Helping more...

GridWise Redux - Where the Grid Is Headed

Blogger Photo By Martin Rosenberg - The GridWise Global Forum came and went last week, airing some thoughtful discussion on the state of the grid and more...

Consumer education needs to move far beyond the meter

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - I was beyond exasperation when, at a neighborhood get-together last night, a chemical engineer with decades of experience announced authoritatively 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...
Filed Under Grid Operations

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...
Filed Under Grid Operations

Smart Compatible Units in Emergent Work

By Mithun Das
With the advent of the smart grid solution there would be an increasing need of smart planning and designing especially the routine repetitive work. Increase in the real time data coming from the Smart equipments more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

Leveraging "Analytics" to Drive Enterprise Performance Improvements in Utility Smart Grid Initiatives

By Subroto Kar
Utility electric industry is in the midst of major transformation. The United States Department of Energy is investing approximately $4 billion to accelerate deployment and demonstration through the Smart Grid Investment Grant and Smart Grid more...
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SMART GRID -- Education + Information + Knowledge = End of Monopoly

By Joao Gomes
The break in the Monopoly in the area of Electric Power Distribution is closer than we could imagine, education, information and knowledge is a combination similar to an avalanche, know how it starts, but not more...
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