Overhead Distribution
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PPL Utilities customers will soon see a new addition to their bills: a special charge aimed at financing speedier improvements to the Allentown-based utility's electricity distribution system.
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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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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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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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General Cable (NYSE: BGC) and Dow Electrical & Telecommunications (Dow E&T), a business of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: Dow), are pleased to introduce BICC(R) Brand EmPowr(R) Link+, an enhanced tree-retardant cross-linked polyethylene (TRXLPE) insulated medium-voltage cable that sets the new standard for reliability and asset management.
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SMUD and others finding value in grid data
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SMUD’s assistant general manager talks about sharing success stories
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PG&E, Southern Company and others transitioning pilots to full-out rollouts
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EPRI technical executive discusses the importance of distribution management
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Empresa Electrica Publica de Guayaquil, EP, EEPG, the largest utility in Ecuador, has been using Cooper Power Systems CYME Power Engineering Analysis Software for Transmission Systems (PSAF) for more than a decade, and is now working actively to complete a project using CYME CYMDIST solution for distribution analysis.
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California Public Utilities Commission to decide in coming year
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) hit the ground running in mid- and late November with a series of announcements about its next smart grid projects, in line with its Smart Grid Deployment Plan filed with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) earlier this year. One of the most intriguing is its Smart Grid Pilot Deployment Project application to the CPUC in late November. Here's a look inside the application.
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LIPA assessing damage, rebuilding
"Whenever you have a two-foot to three-foot-diameter tree coming in contact with a 12-inch-diameter pole, the tree always wins." We follow the work of the Long Island Power Authority as the utility begins its damage assessment, cleanup and rebuilding efforts in the wake of Irene.
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has finalized deployment of the Cooper Power Systems CYME software solution for distribution engineering planning.
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Ex-FERC commissioner Suedeen Kelly provides transmission insight
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Electric utilities explore the hybrid route
"One size fits all" is definitely not the case when it comes to utility communications planning. From broadband over power line and microwave to WiFi, WiMAX or cellular, many electric utilities are using a hybrid approach to smart grid communications networks. Three utility executives discuss their plans here.
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ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order to supply process electrification and power distribution infrastructure as well as equipment for a new pulp mill in southwestern Uruguay.
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The design of traditional circuits that carry electricity through communities served by utilities like Southern California Edison (SCE) is changing significantly for the first time in more than 100 years.
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Transmission plans receiving deep scrutiny
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Some elements are more hazy than others
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