Metering, AMR & Data Management
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A small group protested at Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division headquarters on Thursday, assailing the "smart grid" technology that the utility plans to adopt.
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“Usually security grid guys stand up and tell you a whole bunch of scary things,” began Michael Phillips, director of information security, IT with CenterPoint Energy at a cybersecurity education session at the UTC Telecom conference in Houston this week. And then he proceeded to tell us a whole bunch of scary things.
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Smart meters, once believed to be readily acceptable to regulators, utilities, and consumers, are no longer the same due to growing skepticism about smart meters for health, privacy, and security issues. Every utility is now facing the challenge on how to ensure smooth transition from a legacy to a smarter utility.
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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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If you’ve been in this business for a while and attended a few industry conferences, you may have heard the Green Button Initiative chatted about. But, be honest, you're thinking to yourself, "What the heck is that exactly?" Click on this article to find out.
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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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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 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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Available now.
The March/April issue of Intelligent Utility is all about the convergence of the smart grid and the customer: angry, happy and apathetic. You’ll know your customer better than you know yourself when you finish this issue.
And you can download the entire issue for free by clicking this link.
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+Apparently, we’re social animals
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+the success of analytics still comes down to people
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+Can we close the cyber blinds
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+OK, TX, CA all represented
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We often talk about how well (or how poorly) utilities are doing in certain areas: customer engagement, outage management and disaster recovery, even capital investment. But, we rarely turn that critical eye to the other major group in our industry—namely, vendors. Here's an insider look at the A+ smart grid vendors and a sneak peek at those set to storm the market that you may not know much about.
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Incorporating the widgets of the smart grid has been the focus of our industry for the last few years. We upgraded legacy systems. We replaced reclosers and meters and added in synchrophasors. And all that technology will bring us lots of data: small data, medium-sized data, and even that big data everyone is talking about. In fact, it will bring you reams of data, tons of it. You’ll have data coming out of your ears.
So, what do you do with all of it?
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Greater complexity along with variables implies greater risk of power outages, and potentially more substantial impact of power outages as well, as one would expect structural dependency on power to increase enormously under a Smart Grid Scenario.
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The meter installation in Naperville, Illinois has an active and vocal protest movement. Despite studies by the utility and objective sources refuting the movement's claims, a form letter created by the protest group has spilled over the edges of this community and appeared in various forms at utilities across the country. Nicknamed "the Naperville letter," it may be coming to a utility near you. Here's insight into where it came from, what it says and how you can respond.
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