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Cooper Power Systems and CGI Announce Partnership to Deliver Smart Grid Projects
Cooper Power Systems - Cooper Power Systems, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), and CGI Group Inc. 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...
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...
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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...
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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Monitoring System for Overhead Line Conductors. Meeting the demands of a changing power environment

Blogger Photo By LIOS Technology - Providing sufficient electrical power reliably requires ongoing monitoring of temperatures within overhead transmission lines that are more susceptible to atmospheric more...

MASDAR, A GLOBAL RENEWABLE ENERGY HUB

Blogger Photo By Shehu Khaleel - Looking at recent local and international commitments, it is our view that the world has reached a tipping point in more...

Smart Grid: The Game

Blogger Photo By Elisa Wood Lisa Cohn - By Elisa Wood January 14, 2010 ? In his best seller "Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell shows that it is not equipment more...

Now and before

Blogger Photo By Jose Gambande - If we say the computer technology (and IT technologies) has revolutionized the ways, forms of communication, relationships, etc.. between human more...

Comunications levels

Blogger Photo By Jose Gambande - From top to bottom, levels of communication detailed in the diagram of the previous post are: - SCADA high level: more...
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Reshaping the Customer Relationship through Smart Grid

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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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Smart Grid 2.0

By Jack Ellis
Back in 2005, a couple of engineers used the term "Smart Grid" to describe their vision of an advanced power system. Particularly in the aftermath of the 2003 Northeast Blackout, Smart Grid quickly became a more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

Smart Forecasting for a Smarter Grid

By Michael Price
Most successful smart metering programs focus on business process management to maximize benefits (e.g., operational improvements) enabled by an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). Improved data visibility, frequency, and quality enabled by AMI technologies, can enhance more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

Tangled Network: Transmission or Meter Investments

By Kate Rowland
It's as old a debate as the chicken and the egg, and as complicated as the Gordian knot. Should utilities tackle transmission or customers first when making investments in a smarter grid? more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

Regulation and Smart Energy: Dealing with Uncertainty

By Bart Thielbar
Industry professionals are overwhelmed with calls for smart grid implementations and many utilities are moving in that direction. They are doing so, however, with much uncertainty regarding cost recovery and even more uncertainty regarding any more...
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The Smart Grid Ready Framework, Part 2

By Larsh Johnson
The Smart Grid Ready Framework is a strategic application blueprint that helps ensure grid management implementations deliver business value as expected. The framework is defined by five components. more...
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