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OSI Selected by Matanuska Electric Association of Alaska to Deliver a New and Modern SCADA/GMS System
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) - Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a new contract by Matanuska Electric Association, Inc. (MEA) of Palmer, Alaska, for a three-phase SCADA and Generation Management System project to be based on OSI's monarch (Multi-platform Open Network ARCHitecture) platform. more...
ABB wins $16 million power order to support industrial infrastructure in Iraq
ABB Inc. - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around $16 million from Mass Global Investment Company for the construction of a substation and SVC Light (static var compensator) system that will supply electricity to a new melt shop and steel rolling mill in northern Iraq. more...
ABB donates Substation Automation equipment to NC State University's FREEDM Center
ABB Inc. - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, today announced it has provided new, state-of-the-art, smart grid-compliant substation automation products to the Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management Systems Center - the FREEDM Systems Center - at North Carolina State University. more...
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ABB Switchyard Adds 200 MW of Local Electricity for City of Anaheim
ABB Inc. - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, today announced the dedication of the Canyon Power 69kV GIS Switchyard, a major new turnkey GIS project that now provides unprecedented levels of local electricity for the City of Anaheim, California. more...
Cooper Power Systems Announces Yukon Advanced Energy Services Software IED Manager Suite Release 5.0
Cooper Power Systems - Cooper Power Systems, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), announced today the availability of its Yukon IED Manager Suite (IMS) release 5.0. more...
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Reliable, Resilient and Secure - Does your Smart Grid Communication Infra deliver on it's promise?

Blogger Photo By Devendra Vishwakarma - Everybody in Power Systems and Utilities community will agree to the fact that Reliable, Resilient and Secure Communications infrastructure is more...

Smart Meter Security : Do we need to panic? Or make mitigation strategy?

Blogger Photo By Devendra Vishwakarma - Since the beginning this week t he focus of the smart grid discussions has been  around smart meter and AMI communications more...

Smart Meter Security : An imperative in reducing vulnerability of Power Grids

Blogger Photo By Devendra Vishwakarma - I just read an interesting blog on Smart Meter [External Link] In one of my previous blogs I did touch upon more...

Unified Smart Grid Network Operations Management System : Consider before it's too late

Blogger Photo By Devendra Vishwakarma - In my blog yesterday I mentioned few questions for which the answers can be found in strategy for an unified 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...
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Demystifying Utility Analytics -- What it's all about, where it's going, and how to get started.

 Monday May 21, 2012 - 11:00 AM Eastern - Virtual Event

This webinar offers pragmatic advice for utilities that are considering data analytics investments; it shares insights from a utility that has been on the leading edge of the data analytics movement in power generation; and it discusses the opportunity to more...

Customer Analytics Issues, Trends, & Drivers

Wednesday May 30, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

Learn how utilities are realizing the full potential from new customer data in this free Executive Insights webcast, which will include lessons from utilities in the field, as well as an overview of results from the Utility Analytics Institute's Annual more...

Securing AMI at BC Hydro: The Benefits of a Multi-Layered Security Architecture

 Thursday May 31, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

Cyber security is one of the top concerns for utilities that are implementing a smart grid network solution. Consumer privacy and data integrity are critical. The good news is that industry leaders have established proven processes and procedures to mitigate more...

Consumer Engagement & the Role of Mobile Apps

 Thursday Jun 7, 2012 - 11:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

The new consumer is a mobile consumer: always "on", 24/7. They prefer texting over e-mail, and e-mail over a phone call or face-to-face communication. more...

New Challenges for Operating the Utility Enterprise

 Thursday Jun 21, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

Uncertainty haunts the United States utility industry: Natural-gas prices have plummeted, environmental regulations are throttling coal-fired power, and nuclear power's viability is being questioned in the wake of the Japanese nuclear disaster and the termination of the Yucca Mountain nuclear more...
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Role of Artificial Neural Networks in Microgrid

By Satish Balantrapu
The increased prevalence of distributed generation resources, incentives and the need to provide a reliable, secure and clean supply of power to consumers has led to the emergence of a new type more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

Smart Distribution Grids: Beyond AMI

By Devendra Vishwakarma
Smart Grid has changed the way utilities look at their grids and the way customers look at their electric utilities. It all started with AMI infrastructure investments and now its time to look beyond the more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

A Useful Thing Happened on the Way to the Smart Grid: An Agile Grid, Part 5

By Stephen Hadden
The concept of an intelligent electric utility infrastructure or "smart grid" is attracting wide interest among utilities, consultants, regulators, and other utility stakeholders. This interest, however, is accompanied by widely differing expectations about when the more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

Future Power Systems - what will they look like and the 'Smart Enterprise'

By Stephen Browning
The Power System of the Future will be radically different from today, with high penetration of unpredictable variable output renewables. We have a lot of potential new technology and control mechanisms to utilise. more...
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Electricity 2.0 -- the smart grid

By Hermione Crease
Can you remember a time before the internet? Those long-gone days when information gathering meant a day in a dusty library. When mass communication meant hundreds of faxes and thousands of letters. It's hard to more...
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