Outage Management
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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.
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Let’s play a little game. Don’t worry. It won’t be nearly as difficult as winning on your “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader” app. Well, it might be. I could be lying. But, let’s play anyway: How many blackouts were there in the U.S. last year (2012)? Tens? Hundreds? We’ll give you a hint: You’ll have to multiply the number of laps driven in Indy by at least 5.
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Steve Baker, vice president of distribution operations at Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO), an AEP company, looks back at one massive winter ice storm that taught PSO countless lessons on managing and preparing for extreme weather.
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In the end, despite best efforts, a utility can’t prevent weather emergencies: Power will go out because lines will come down. That’s a fact. But, that doesn’t mean a utility can’t prepare. Here are three areas that can be shored up to help.
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+Ice, wind, rain impact customers, infrastructure, culture
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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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The Obama administration is linking improvements in the electrical grid with the increasing occurrence of aberrant weather patterns, all associated with climate change. To that end, it has recently released its “progress report” detailing the steps that it has made and will continue to make to achieve its goals.
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On a summary level among the more than 150 utility participants in 37 countries that participated in the recently completed tenth edition of Newton-Evans’ series titled “The World Market Study of SCADA, Energy Management Systems, Distribution Management Systems and Outage Management Systems in Electric Utilities,” there are some noticeable regional differences in current and planned usage of analytics capabilities to assist utility operations.
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Over the last decade and a half, technology and innovations have had great impact on Outage Management Systems (OMS). The latest OMS is much more robust, uses web technologies, integrates with more Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) systems, contains more tools, supports special device types, and communicates with Smart Grid enabled networks. While they were never simple systems, the capabilities of OMS continue to grow. Early OMS implementations contained configurations custom to their deployment.
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Washington may have shut down, but utilities along the Eastern seaboard are just ramping up. The massive snowstorm that hit the Chicago area yesterday is now moving through Virginia and D.C. While this storm will not bring the level of emergency seen with Hurricane Sandy, utilities are thinking ahead all the same.
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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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A hurricane inspires industry discussion; by Phil Carson
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Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a contract by the Clarke Electric Cooperative (CEC) of Iowa to supply a state-of-the-art new SCADA master system as part of its participation in the Cooperative Research Network's Smart Grid Demonstration Project (SGDP), supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Expert touts hardening, resiliency as avenue to growth
In the second part of a two-part Q&A, Massoud Amin, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Minnesota, discusses dynamic risk, the economic constraints of obsolete infrastructure and the cost of upgrading the electric grid in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
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`Distractions' (investigations) may hamper improvements
Systems integration gets more emphasis in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, from a consultant who specializes in service restoration after major events. And if you think the storm was a doozy, wait til you consider the investigations and lawsuits now brewing.
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+Insider advice from the analytics panel
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Meter data analytics bring consumer, utility benefits
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Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) emergency management, disaster recovery, and power delivery teams continue to support utility, government, and private and non-profit clients impacted by Hurricane Sandy to provide disaster mitigation, response, recovery, and power restoration.
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Hard analysis needed of practices and technology
As the media documented the damage to the grid by Hurricane Sandy, before economic losses can be properly estimated, questions were ubiquitous and largely unanswered. Good answers will take time. What utilities do with the answers may determine our future quality of life.
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