Intelligent Utility Insights
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Jun 19, 2013 |
Since Manitoba Hydro’s major hydroelectric sits far from the load center, DC transmission was the most economic choice to cover the distance, partly as a result of keeping losses low, which, given the benefits of bipolar transmission, nearly dictated the existence of Bipole I, II & III--key components of the utility's transmission plans for the next decade.
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Jun 18, 2013 |
As summer gets hotter and more wild weather rumbles across the country, Intelligent Utility asked DTE Energy’s Patricia Armbruster, principal process management facilitator in distribution operations, about her utility’s outage management plans, from restoration to “blue sky” outages.
Featured from Intelligent Utility Magazine
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Net metering—the process where a home or business generating its own electricity can run its meter backward and sell any excess electricity it generates to the grid for a bill credit—has become a common power industry phrase since Idaho adopted the first net-metering program in 1980. By 1998, 22 states had adopted net metering. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 further encouraged net metering, -
We all love the smart grid. It’s great. It’s marvelous. It’s a wave of the electric power future. But, there are still pockets within a utility that haven’t yet felt the full enlightenment of intelligent structures and software. For most utilities, the deployment and activities of field workers remains one of those dark pockets. We all talk about the consumer, how mobile applications can
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Ask Enedina Popesco about the energy efficiency upgrades to her home in the Bienestar Apartment complex in San Luis, Ariz., and she is all smiles as she shows her electric bill -- a bill that is half what it used to be.
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