Insights from our Editorial Team
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Apr 03, 2013 |
This week, Intelligent Utility chats with three Con Edison researchers who earned the Technology Transfer Award from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) for their work on detecting contact voltage (or stray voltage) using smartphones and tablets.
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Apr 02, 2013 |
Incorporating the widgets of the smart grid has been the focus of our industry for the last few years. We upgraded legacy systems. We replaced reclosers and meters and added in synchrophasors. And all that technology will bring us lots of data: small data, medium-sized data, and even that big data everyone is talking about. In fact, it will bring you reams of data, tons of it. You’ll have data coming out of your ears.
So, what do you do with all of it?
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Apr 01, 2013 |
The development of the distribution management system (DMS) will enable the electric utility industry to take advantage of the unprecedented data and technological advances of the information age resulting in better management and optimization of distribution grid performance, says Steve Russell, Duke Energy’s grid modernization DMS project manager.
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Mar 31, 2013 |
Insights from Caltech's Grid 2020 series: By 2020, nearly 30 percent of total U.S. resource capacity may come from customers’ generation and responsive demand. Keys to making these policies successful as we reach tipping points of customer adoption are getting the pricing right and creating new services for customer resources, says Paul De Martini, Resnick Institute Visiting Scholar, Caltech.
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Mar 28, 2013 |
In February, President Obama signed an executive order with the intentions of beefing up the cybersecurity protection for bits of critical infrastructure, including the electric power structure strewn across the country. In this companion article to Prudence Park's UTC piece from yesterday (which can be read here), we give a little advice on preparation and patience. (Thought leadership sponsored by Intel.)
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Mar 27, 2013 |
Prudence Parks, director of government affairs and legislative counsel for the Utilities Telecom Council, discusses EO 13636 and Presidential Policy Directive 21 and what those mean for you. For a companion piece to this article, read "How do utilities prepare for the cybersecurity executive order?" by clicking here.
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Mar 26, 2013 |
Dan Sowder, a senior project manager with Duke Energy, gives us an inside look at the utility's award-winning Rankin substation and its interesting utility-scale battery technology.
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Mar 25, 2013 |
In late February, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) released pictures of a couple of adorable little drones they’ve been working on. I realize I’m not supposed to call such complicated, cutting-edge technology “adorable,” but I have a soft spot for robots and miniature robotics. We chatted with EPRI on the benefits (and the playfulness) of drones.
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Mar 23, 2013 |
As we discussed in earlier issues of this utility tweets article series, utilities have really come far in using Twitter in new, interesting, informative and amusing ways. With this issue, we perused a whole lot of utility and association feeds to put together some of our favorites from March featuring the touching, the educational, the practical and the mildly paranoid.
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Mar 21, 2013 |
In what can be likened to a sack race toward a distant—and distinctly different—future for communities and the power they consume, the City of Fort Collins is leading the pack, according to SWEEP's director of communications. Juicy details inside.
