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Nine Federal Agencies to Expedite New Transmission Lines on Federal Lands

DOE and eight other federal departments and agencies announced on October 23 that they had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to speed the construction of electric transmission lines on federal lands. more...
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AEP to form transmission company

American Electric Power is creating a new company to handle the interstate transmission of power, a task previously handled at the state level. more...
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ATC Enters Two Long-Term Construction Contracts

American Transmission Co. recently signed contracts with two nationally recognized construction services firms for transmission line and substation work. more...
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Allegheny Power Invests Over $150 Million in West Virginia for Reliability Improvement Projects

Allegheny Power, the energy delivery business of Allegheny Energy, Inc. more...
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Ocean Power Technologies Completes Successful Trials of Underwater Substation Pod

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT and London Stock Exchange AIM: OPT) ("OPT" or the "Company") announces the successful completion of trials of its Underwater Substation Pod ("USP") product in Spain. The USP, based on the Company's proprietary design, has been developed to facilitate the collection, networking and transforming of power and data generated by up to ten of its PowerBuoys for transmission to a shore-based electricity grid by one subsea power cable. It has been built as an open platform, and can therefore provide "plug and play" connectivity for any offshore energy device linked to it. more...
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NV Energy and Western Area Power Administration Sign M.O.U. to Study Nevada to California/Southwest Transmission Projects

NV Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NVE) and the Western Area Power Administration (Western) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding under which the parties intend to explore the potential development of 500-kilovolt transmission lines and associated facilities to acces renewable energy resources and deliver those resources to electricity users in Nevada, California, Arizona and other markets in the Southwest U.S. more...
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Seattle City Light Partnership Adds Transmission, Lowers Cost

Seattle City Light, Bonneville Power Administration and Pend Oreille PUD announced today that they have completed a key step for re-establishing a transmission line that will increase BPA's transmission reliability in northeastern Washington and lower costs for the two utilities. more...
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Transmission and Distribution: AREVA T&D renews power transformer Key Supplier agreement with Northeast Utilities in the USA

AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution division (T&D) in the United States has signed an agreement to be the key supplier of single-phase autotransformers to Northeast Utilities (NU) through to 2014. more...
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Hitachi America, Ltd. Introduces Amorphous Metal Distribution Transformers In The United States

Hitachi America, Ltd. today announced that it has introduced amorphous metal distribution transformers in the United States. Hitachi has actively promoted amorphous metal distribution transformers in Asia for over 20 years and it has over 90% market share for amorphous metal distribution transformers in Japan. more...
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AEP Ohio Selects AdaptiVolt

AEP Ohio, a unit of American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP), has selected PCS UtiliData’s AdaptiVolt™ Volt/Var Optimization system for a demand reduction project in northeast central Ohio as part of the company’s recently announced AEP Ohio gridSMARTSM Demonstration Project. more...
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LCRA TSC files application with PUC to build new 345-kilovolt transmission line

LCRA Transmission Services Corporation (LCRA TSC) today filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) an application to build a new 345-kilovolt (kV) transmission line in Gillespie, Llano, San Saba, Burnet, and Lampasas counties. more...
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AREVA T&D acquires power transformer manufacturer Megatran Electric Ltd. and secures supply agreement with Hydro-Quebec

AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) division and the shareholders of Megatran Electric Ltd today announced that they have signed an agreement for AREVA T&D to acquire Megatran, the Canadian-based power transformer manufacturer. more...
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Composite Technology Announces More Conductor Orders in the U.S.

Composite Technology Corporation (CTC) (OTCBB: CPTC) is pleased to announce a new order for ACCC(TM) conductor for its subsidiary CTC Cable Corporation. more...
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Composite Technology Announces ACCC Projects in Indonesia

Composite Technology Corporation (CTC) (OTCBB: CPTC) is pleased to announce two new orders for ACCC core for its subsidiary CTC Cable Corporation. more...
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AREVA T&D consolidates its leadership in 765 kV substations in India

AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) division has recently won an order worth approximately €21 million from the Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. more...
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Team of Experts Seeking to Study Ways to Improve Western North America's Transmission Grid

A team of power industry experts headed by POWER Engineers, a leading engineering firm in the design of transmission systems, recently submitted a proposal to the U.S. more...
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AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR AND KOREA'S LS CABLE FORM STRATEGIC BUSINESS ALLIANCE

American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a global energy technologies company, and LS Cable Ltd. more...
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ARTICLES

Experience With a Standard Protocol in Substation Automation Projects

By Michael Shulim -
This article is based on real experience with IEC-61850 stack implementation. It summarizes the development process of the IEC-61850 OPC Server and explains the difficulties more...
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Evolution of the Smart Grid Substation

By Gary Ockwell -
Substation automation has slowly evolved from the classical remote terminal unit, to the current network based terminal unit. However the inception of the Smart Grid more...
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Defect Specific Cable Diagnostics Empowers Asset Managers

By Bruce Broussard - Utilities, industrial plants, casinos, commercial and government campuses, and municipal water treatment facilities all have an abundance of underground shielded power cable system assets. Many more...
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Enterprise Agility -- Managing Risk with Agility

By Rick Dove -
Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), a medium sized electric and gas merchant utility, provides an excellent case study of agility in response able more...
Filed under: Substations

Substation automation: IED integration and availability of information

By Jim McDonald - Electric utility deregulation, economic pressures forcing downsizing, and the marketplace pressures of potential takeovers have forced utilities to examine their operational and organizational practices. more...
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ENERGY BLOGS

SMARTENING UP THE DUMB

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - If I see the words “dumb grid” used one more time in the popular media, I’m going to scream!   more...

F.I.T. Feed In Transportation better than Net-Metering

Blogger Photo By Jim Stack -      Many people have heard about the famous Feed In Tariff in Germany. That is where you get paid more...

Planning the Work and Working the Plan

Blogger Photo By Bart Thielbar - The journey of a million miles that I blogged about last week is off to a solid start.  At the more...

US Wind Renewable Energy Project Equipped with DTS Condition Monitoring

Blogger Photo By LIOS Technology - For one of the biggest American renewable energy companies LIOS provided its well recognized DTS system for monitoring the temperature more...

Wireless solutions, network promiscuity and more

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - I learned more in one day today about wireless solutions to communications infrastructure and remote sensor monitoring issues than I’ve more...

The First Step on a Journey of a Million Miles

Blogger Photo By Bart Thielbar - With much anticipation and great fanfare, President Obama and the Department of Energy (DOE) announced $3.4 billion of stimulus funding more...
 

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