Metering, AMR & Data 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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The service that Rochester-based ScrapSafe offers to power companies across the country is "environmentally friendly and economically sound," says the company's VP of Marketing David Colby.
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Maine's Public Utilities Commission voted Thursday to audit Central Maine Power Co.'s smart meter program, to determine whether it is saving money and providing the benefits that were expected when the commission approved it in 2010.
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The installation of additional metering equipment at Boomer Lake Station, where Stillwater Utilities Authority has its power generation plant, was completed Thursday.
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Sixteen consumers have sued Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric in state court alleging that the utilities' "smart meters" caused them physical harm ranging from dizziness and ringing in their ears to radiation burns and cancer.
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The staff of Maine's Public Utilities Commission contends that Central Maine Power Co. has mismanaged its smart-meter program, costing customers millions of dollars rather than saving them money, and failing to provide the expected energy savings and operational benefits.
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Smart meters continue to draw some opposition, but the devices that communicate customers' power use information are central to meeting Texas electricity demand by reducing it, panelists said at a Houston conference Tuesday.
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Analytics has been one of the buzz words in many industries that have direct and high volume of customer engagement like banks, retailers and telecom companies. Typically these industries generate a lot of data and therefore analytics has been put to great use in these industries. Organizations in these industries have grown, outshined and helped themselves out of deep problems just on the strength of strong analytics. With the utilities industry also showing similar characteristics of increasing direct and high volume of customer engagement and generating tons of data due to initiatives like smart metering, it's now time for utilities to take the analytics game seriously.
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Analyst Christine Easterfield looks at the role of customer within smart metering with examples from the U.S. and Europe.
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An overview of our May/June issue of Intelligent Utility magazine, including links to the cover story ("Attention utilities: The FBI wants to talk to you about cybersecurity") and other juicy tidbits from CenterPoint Energy, Guam Power Authority, Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, Eletrobras, EEI, a former FERC chairman, E.ON, Gulf Power, Westar, Ameren Missouri, Vectren, PG&E, Peoples Natural Gas Co. and our own Utility Analytics Institute. It may be more info than you can handle, but we have faith in you.
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Rick Tempchin, executive director, retail energy services, for the Edison Electric Institute, asks us to take another look at net metering and how it impacts the economy of power. (This is part two of a two-part series.)
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Where are those time-of-use rates?
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Virtual, community versions necessary
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Guam Power Authority
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Rick Tempchin, executive director of retail energy services for the Edison Electric Institute, asks us to take another look at net metering and how it impacts the economy of power.
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Patty Durand, executive director for the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative, reveals the Collaborative's top four U.S. utilities in the area of customer service and the reasons behind those choices. (This is part 2 of a two-part series.)
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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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