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Enspiria Solutions Expands Smart Grid Project and Program Management
Enspiria Solutions Inc. - Enspiria® Solutions, a leading provider of consulting and systems integration to the utility and government sectors announced today that the company continues to expand Smart Grid Program and Project Management capabilities with the addition of Scott Stein, PMP. more...
Siemens sponsors Grid-Interop 2009
Siemens Energy, Inc. - Grid-Interop 2009 is an annual three-day gathering of thought leaders from around the world who will focus on the successful interconnection of transmission and distribution devices to enable the Smart Grid. more...
ABB and Fortum to develop large-scale smart grid for sustainable city project
ABB Inc. - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, will work on a joint development project with the Nordic utility Fortum to design and install a large-scale smart grid in a new district of the city of Stockholm. more...
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Power and Water Corporation Taps IBM to Aid in Asset Management Program
IBM Corporation - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a $14.5 million agreement with Power and Water Corporation, the Northern Territory's multi-utility provider, to help design and implement an asset management system aimed at delivering electricity, water and sewerage services to its customers more efficiently. more...
LG Electronics, Electrolux, Control4, HomeGrid Forum, Midas Medici Group Holdings and CABA Join Smart Grid Association
Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG) - The Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG) announced today that six companies have joined the trade association and will contribute to its efforts aimed at developing markets for smart grid technologies and smart grid practices like demand response. more...
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Intelligence for the Utility as Well as the Grid

Blogger Photo By Bart Thielbar - What comes first – the smart meter or the ability to capture and effectively utilize the information available from the more...

Gems from Silicon Valley and GreenBeat 2009

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - Today’s GreenBeat 2009 conference in San Mateo, California, brought together venture capitalists, analysts, electric utility executives and smart grid solutions more...

Interim airport report: Grid-Interop

Blogger Photo By H. Christine Richards - After all of the interoperability work that went on with EPRI and NIST earlier this year, I had to ask: more...

Partnership, Not Preemption

Blogger Photo By Bart Thielbar - As discussed in prior posts, the industry-wide implementation of smart grid technologies is a long journey.  Similar to other long more...

Since we're talking about risk...

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - ...let’s talk about High-Impact Low-Frequency (HILF) risks to the North American power system.   The North American Electric Reliability Corporation more...
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Managing Tree-caused Electric Service Interruptions

By Siegfried Guggenmoos
Throughout their one hundred year history, utilities have been challenged by tree-conductor conflicts. On transmission systems tree-conductor contacts can have devastating results as demonstrated by the fact that trees were involved in the last three more...
Filed Under T&D Asset Management

Computers Not Enough: Trends in Asset Management

By Warren Causey
Utilities have been managing assets for a long time -- lots of assets. Utilities have millions of parts, supplies, wires, capacitors, trucks, tools, laptops, screws, bolts, gloves and goggles. One problem facing them is that more...
Filed Under T&D Asset Management

Are Smart Grids a Smart Investment?

By Jerry Jackson
Analysis of comprehensive smart grid technology applications at 200 of the largest U.S. utilities shows potential smart grid savings of 115,145 Megawatts (MW) with avoided costs of more than $120 billion and net savings after more...
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Smart Metering Goes Smarter

By Fred Claassens
Smart metering is a common term used for any metering solution smarter than a mechanical analog metering service. The NRS 049 specification published in South Africa in 2008 cleared many of these myths and put more...
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Achievable Potential from Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Programs in the U.S.: 2010-2030, Part II

By Omar Siddiqui
One baseline for this study is the 2008 AEO estimate of 3,717 TWh for U.S. electricity use in 2008, with residential consumption at 38 percent, commercial at 36 percent, and industrial at 26 percent. In more...
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