Distribution Management Systems
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Transactive energy markets hold the promise to achieve economic efficiency and reliability across the bulk power system and distribution networks. This research area was identified in the Caltech Resnick Sustainability Institute’s Grid2020 report released last fall, and was the topic of the third discussion of the series in April 2013 (reviewed in this article).
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Branndon Kelley with American Municipal Power shares the top five challenges he sees for utilities.
Kelley is CIO of American Municipal Power, a nonprofit corporation that owns and operates electric facilities with the purpose of providing generation, transmission and distribution of electric power and energy to its members in Delaware, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio.
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Brazil is considered one of the rising stars in the smart grid market, and a number of power companies are eyeing the country for potential investment. So, I asked experts at Northeast Group, a research and consulting firm based in D.C. that focuses on the energy sector and the rapidly emerging market for smart grid, about Brazil’s smart grid potential.
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Memoori, a research firm from the UK, recently released “The Smart Grid Business 2012 to 2017” report, which looks into smart grid sales across the U.S. and the world. Around that big world in 2012, sales hit $36.5 billion. The U.S. was about 20 percent of the business overall, with Europe at 10 percent, according to the report and Memoori’s founder Jim McHale. McHale spoke to us about those numbers and Europe's "wait and see" experiment with some aspects of the smart grid.
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Are you an Edison fan or a Tesla fan? To many science geeks, this fight is akin to being an Elvis fan or a Beatles fan. You’re not allowed to be both. It’s against the code. So, how much of an inventor’s skill defines him, and how much is it all about getting the right eyes on your invention and research? Would Tesla have been as big as Edison with the right promotional skils? And how does that lesson apply to today's utility inventor?
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The Guam Power Authority (GPA) serves 48,000 meter customers with 663 miles of power lines and 29 substations across the island. For this installment of Intelligent Utility’s Utility2utility interview series, we chat with John J. Cruz Jr., P.E., MBA, GPA’s strategic planning and operations research division (SPORD) manager.
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The smart city is all about how the city "organism" works together as an integrated whole and survives when put under extreme conditions, such as Hurricane Sandy. Energy, water, transportation, public health and safety, and other aspects of a smart city work in unison to support smooth operation of the critical city infrastructure while providing for a clean, economic and safe environment in which to live, work and play.
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+ Technical activities strategic directions through 2020
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In part one of this two-part article series, Duke Energy’s grid modernization DMS project manager discussed the history and strengths of DMS. (Read part one here.) In this second part, Russell discusses the details of DMS and advice for implementing programs.
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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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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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Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been selected by Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Inc. to supply an advanced new Distribution Management System (DMS) for their members, based on OSI’s state-of-the-art monarch™ (Multi-platform Open Network ARCHitecture) platform.
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CIM Automation Systems, a division of M.C. Dean, Inc. has been appointed an "Energy Automation-Smart Grid" Siemens Solution Partner. M.C. Dean is the first "Energy Automation-Smart Grid" Siemens Solution Partner in the United States.
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ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, today announced plans to help empower Public Power and rural electric utilities with future-proofing their systems for a reliable, efficient and sustainable grid.
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Structure™, an industry leader in business advisory and consulting services to the energy and utilities industries, announced that it has been voted to the list of “13 Smart Grid Companies to Watch in 2013” by the readers of Smart Grid News for the second consecutive year.
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Before I go to any show, from small association event to large vendor-based exhibit floor, I think about how many I’ve been to. Can I guess the number? Can I guess how long I’ve spent at shows over my career? I recently added to that lifetime total with yet another show. Despite the repetitive nature of these things, however, I always learn at least a few interesting tidbits that are new and shiny and start the gears spinning in my head just a tad faster.
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The smart grid isn’t a test. It isn’t a review or a project. It isn’t a new technology we can choose to learn (or not learn, as the case may be). As the diet books all also proclaim, it’s a lifestyle change. Or, to quote REM, “it’s the end of the world as we know it.” (But, don’t worry, you’ll feel fine.)
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