Grid Operations
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Untested technologies are putting chief information officers on the front lines to ensure the grid's reliability.
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On the spectrum of utility risks, high-impact low-frequency risks pose an insidious threat - they could wipe out the grid but their rarity begets complacency. NERC weighs in, stirs discussion.
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In 2006, Bill Gates asked his utility leader, Jon Arnold, what Microsoft was doing for the grid. Arnold talks here about how he'd write that memo today.
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Environmental groups support new transmission lines and their corridors, particularly if those lines carry renewable energy, according to a guest column by Ken Silverstein, editor-in-chief of EnergyBiz Insider.
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In the second part of a two-part interview, Erich Gunther talks about managing hundreds of stakeholders in the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, and what's next for the SGIP.
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Can you imagine managing more than 600 stakeholders involved in standards setting and interoperability issues? Q & A with Erich Gunther.
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A visit to Xcel Energy's SmartGridCity in Boulder, Colo., yielded unexpected takeaways. One: we have international visitors looking to understand our innovations. Sound familiar?

