T&D Reliability
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy insists that the state's utilities are ready to handle whatever the 2013 hurricane season dishes out, despite the fact that a Monday night thunderstorm left 21,000 Connecticut Light & Power customers without power.
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PPL Electric Utilities on Wednesday released details of its 2013 plan to modernize facilities, build new substations and make distribution system improvements aimed at improving reliability for customers in the Lehigh Valley, Bucks and Montgomery counties.
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From the customer perspective, have utilities evolved? Do they offer what a customer wants? Are they making in-roads into the crowded consumer mindset or simply adding to the consumption “noise” that customers wade through every single day?
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An eye on Germany’s microgrid future
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Klaus Froehlich, president of The International Council on Large Electric Systems (shortened to CIGRE from its French moniker) discusses strategic directions for the association and the industry overall.
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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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In the middle of the biggest game of the year with millions of fans watching and billions of dollars on the line, the power suddenly goes out in the stadium. Your system failure may not be as public or costly as this one but you still want to avoid it at all costs!
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Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) is a not-for-profit, member-owned electric cooperative based in Glen Allen, Virginia. ODEC’s core business is generating, purchasing and delivering electricity to wholesale customers, primarily their member systems. For this installment of our utility2utility article series, we spoke with Erin Puryear, manager of member services and energy innovation planning, about customer service, air conditioning and direct load control (DLC) initiatives.
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For more than 100 years electricity generation and distribution systems have evolved to become one of the most reliable services imaginable - one which has been the foundation of the industrial expansion and prosperity of the developed world. Our society is totally dependent upon this and even relatively short and localized interruptions in the power supply (for example during the Sandy superstorm) cause major disruptions to everyday life.
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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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+Ice, wind, rain impact customers, infrastructure, culture
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) brings a lot of positives: more accurate information, real-time data, two-way communication, a smarter connection. Unfortunately, it also brings a large potential negative: Every new AMI end point is a possible attack point that utilities now have to defend.
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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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