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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...
Allegheny Power Invests Nearly $60 Million in Maryland for Reliability Improvement Projects
GREENSBURG, Pa., Nov 16, 2009 -- BUSINESS WIRE - Allegheny Power, the energy delivery business of Allegheny Energy, Inc. More...
AREVA T&D and Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST) Announce Successful First Test Results for a 13 MVA Shielded, Inductive Superconducting Fault Current Limiter (SFCL)
AREVA T&D - AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) division and Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST) have successfully designed, built and tested a single module of a 13 MVA (2000 A, 6.4 kV) single-phase, shielded-type inductive superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) at the AREVA T&D Technology Centre in Stafford, UK. more...
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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...
High-Impact, Low-Frequency Risks Subject of Key Effort at NERC and DOE
PRINCETON, N.J., November 12, 2009 - In a unique two-day workshop, experts from government, academia, and the electric industry converged in Washington earlier this week to build a framework to address High-Impact, Low-Frequency (HILF) risks to the North American bulk power system. 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...
ABB wins $75 million SVC power order in Canada
ABB Inc. - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth $75 million (USD) from Hydro-Québec for static VAr compensators (SVCs) - equipment which enables quick responses to electrical disturbances in the grid and contributes to restoring its stability. more...
For higher capacity and greater grid stability: Siemens to expand HVDC link in New Zealand
Siemens Energy, Inc. - Siemens Energy has received an order from Wellington-based Transpower New Zealand Limited, the national grid operator, to modernize and increase the capacity of the existing high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) link between the country’s North and South Island. more...
Beacon Power to Begin Construction of Nation's First Flywheel Frequency Regulation Plant
Beacon Power Corp - Beacon Power Corporation (Nasdaq: BCON), a company that designs and develops advanced products and services to support more stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid operation, announced that it will begin construction on the nation’s first full-scale 20-megawatt (MW) flywheel frequency regulation plant during the week of November 23rd, at its site in Stephentown, New York. more...
EnerNex and NIST Invite Industry Leaders and Innovators to Join New Smart Grid Interoperability Panel
EnerNex Corporation - EnerNex® Corporation continues to assist in the pioneering task of establishing the nation’s first Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), per its $8.5M contract with the U.S. more...
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ENERGY BLOGS
Intelligence for the Utility as Well as the Grid
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
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
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
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...
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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