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Jan 31 - The Honolulu Star-Advertiser - New data from the federal government shows that Hawaii residents paid the highest rates for electricity in the country in 2010. More...
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ScottMadden, Inc. - ScottMadden, Inc., a leading general management consulting firm, recently assisted a nuclear generator in developing and implementing leading practice cost controls for their upcoming power uprate outage, using Earned Value Management techniques. more...
LOGICA ANNOUNCES ASSET & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED DISTRIBUTION UTILITIES - ARM EXPRESS
Logica - At the 2012 DistribuTECH conference and exhibition, Logica, a leading business and technology service company, will launch ARM Express, its new Asset & Resource Management (ARM) solution. more...
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ScottMadden Insight: Five Strategic Priorities for Generation and Transmission Cooperatives
ScottMadden, Inc. - ScottMadden, Inc., one of North America's leading energy consulting firms, recently published "Five Strategic Priorities for Generation and Transmission Cooperatives." more...
Ventyx Closes Transmission Congestion “Blind Spot” in US Power Markets with Launch of EV Transmission
Ventyx, An ABB Company - Ventyx, an ABB company, today announced availability of EV Transmission, a new analytical tool that provides mission-critical data to helps traders and analysts more quickly analyze and understand the role that transmission plays in North American power markets. more...
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Smart Grid: SoS "… interacting in unpredictable ways that regulators and investors cannot comprehend

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Summary: Similar to financial markets, system crashes are expected in smart grid, because they have been though to be just more...

Biomass Densification

Blogger Photo By Salman Zafar -   In a typical biomass pre-processing facility, feedstock arrives at the plant in chops or bales. The bales are cut more...

Someone needs to follow the money--the numbers do not make sense

By Mark Wooldridge - Defense Department Studies Solar Energy Potential at Desert Bases - The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) could generate 7,000 megawatts more...

Commissioners visit New Mexico for natural gas conference The Daily Review

By Da Roberts -   TOWANDA - While Bradford County has experienced extensive gas drilling for a few years, what will it be like more...

Enough with the tax credits already

By Mark Wooldridge - Homeowners and businesses who invest in renewable energy could get a tax break under plan - A Senate committee revived more...
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IBM End-to-End Security for Smart Grids

 Monday Feb 6, 2012 - 12:00 AM Eastern - Virtual Event

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Market Data -- A Point Of View on Data Delivery Process and Architecture

By Asish Thomas
A trading organization relies on commodity market data. A commodity trade is only as good as the Market Data it is based on. Incorrect or delayed commodity market prices/information lead to a lack of understanding more...
Filed Under Risk & Operations

No Coal, No Nukes, No Problem?

By Jason Willan
While the call for reduced dependence on coal-fired power plants and nuclear reactors to fuel the U.S. electricity grid is not a new concept, it is one that continues to grow louder. Renewable energy is more...
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The Power of Demand Elasticity in Unraveling Energy Investment Opportunities in the Dark World

By Kanya Williams
The firm and seemingly irrevocable conclusion of Professor Ferdinand Banks in his article "A New Lecture on Electric Deregulatory Failure" Energy Pulse October 24 2007 and repeated in his latest article "A Short but Disobliging more...
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Challenges with Distributed Assets

By Gopal Krishna
In Asset Intensive industries such as utilities /process and discrete manufacturing, challenges such as managing high value assets where each failure is costly and disruption in service often requires effective Asset Management program. At the more...
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Renewable Energy for Urban Households in India

By A.K. Shyam
Domestic energy consumption pattern varies from country to country depending upon their requirement for various activities. According to one estimate, per capita energy consumption ranges between 0.201 to 0.902 ToE (Tons of oil Equivalent)* respectively more...
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