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'Smart meters' give customers usage info
Feb 8 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Purva Patel Houston Chronicle - Thousands of area residents with electric meters that transmit usage data wirelessly soon will be able to examine their power habits online. More...
Boulder smart grid costs blow up, PUC orders more transparency
Feb 6 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Laura Snider Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo. - Xcel Energy has begun charging customers across the state to recoup some of the skyrocketing costs the company has incurred building its smart grid project in Boulder. More...
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Wireless for power utilities
Feb 02 - The Sunday Observer - Colombo - A Silicon Valley startup has combined the technology underlying WiMax with a software-defined radio to build smart grids for electric utilities. More...
Transmission and Distribution: AREVA awarded two major GIS Substations orders by Delhi Transco
AREVA T&D - AREVA's Transmission and Distribution (T&D) division has recently won two major orders from the Delhi Transco Limited (DTL), for 220/33 kV GIS substations, to be installed at H.C Mathur Lane and AIIMS Trauma Centre in Delhi. more...
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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...

Communications Architecture (2)

Blogger Photo By Jose Gambande - The communications system architecture is based on the fundamental property of ethernet networks that allow different sessions on the same more...

Integrated Condition Monitoring for High Voltage Cables: Direct link to SCADA /substation automation

Blogger Photo By LIOS Technology - The intrinsic temperature measuring system DTS based on LIOS Technology’s design, with fibre optic sensors either installed within the power more...
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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...
Filed Under Grid Operations

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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The Smart Grid Ready Framework, Part I

By Larsh Johnson
The smart grid is a rapidly evolving combination of new intelligent networks, information systems and regulations. The promise of smart grid is to allow utilities and consumers to manage energy generation, distribution and usage in more...
Filed Under Grid Operations

Empowering Consumers: Moving Intelligence to the Edge of the Grid

By Audrey Zibelman
The electric industry is now embarking upon a revolution which in many respects resembles the transformation that the communications industry has undergone in recent decades. The transition from the "dumb" telephone network of the past more...
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