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  • Jun 18, 2013 | Kathleen Wolf Davis

    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.

  • Jun 17, 2013 | Kathleen Wolf Davis

    The smart grid is so five years ago. IT/OT convergence is so last year. Today, transactive energy is all the rage. It’s the “it” topic. It’s the “it” subject in the power industry in 2013. But, does it have the legs to stay on the forefront of power industry trends?

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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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  • Dalton could soon become a stopping point for drivers of electric cars. The City Council voted 4-0 Monday to provide space for electric charging stations on city-owned property downtown and on College Drive.

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