Information Technology
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The latest installment of our popular "best of" utility tweets series looks back over the busy month of May for the weak, the strong and the community active. To follow us on Twitter, just click here. You'll find us under the @IntelUtil handle.
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Branndon Kelley with American Municipal Power shares the top five challenges he sees for utilities.
Kelley is CIO of American Municipal Power, a nonprofit corporation that owns and operates electric facilities with the purpose of providing generation, transmission and distribution of electric power and energy to its members in Delaware, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio.
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The Advent of Deregulation was supposed to transform Utility Industry from a traditional industry to a competitive entity. We have come long way down in deregulation and still undergoing a transformation, with the focus largely on smart grid initiatives as a larger umbrella to meet the existing and future consumer needs (Basic & Value Added Services). We could see the Utility Industry undergoing a major transformation from the implementation of technology platforms and their integration.
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With 4.4 million customers, Atlanta-based Southern Company provides electricity to much of the American Southeast. Today, we spoke with Southern Company Senior Vice President and CIO Kenneth Coleman about the utility’s IT programs, plans and projections. This is part two of a series. Read part one here.
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Aclara Technologies LLC, a leading provider of intelligent infrastructure solutions and a member of the utility solutions group of ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ESE), today announced enhanced TWACS® (eTWACS™) at TechAdvantage 2013 in New Orleans. Aclara’s TWACS power-line communications technology is the leading advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solution nationwide, communicating with more than 13.5 million deployed smart devices and retrieving hourly data with a read rate higher than 99 percent for over 360 utilities.
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Sensus, a leading utility infrastructure company today announced that its open standards-based FlexNet communication network has achieved MultiSpeak® 3.0 certification for interoperability with the popular iVUE® system from National Information Solutions Cooperative, or NISC®.
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Hitachi Communication Technologies America, Inc. (Hitachi CTA) and Tendril® today announced that the companies are partnering to deliver a wide range of smart energy applications to consumers via an array of set-top boxes, wireless gateways and other devices that are already in the home. This dramatically improves the economics of home energy management by providing an economical and operational alternative to special-purpose gateways and other specialized hardware for each application used by the subscriber.
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U.S. utilities are not as backwards as I am. Many have embraced social media to communicate with customers more regularly and interactively. And, they’ve managed to truly open dialogues, in many cases. Here are some of Intelligent Utility’s favorite tweets from U.S. power companies in 2012 (and the DOE), ranging from executive interactions to outage updates to the truly odd and awesome.
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+ A mid-sized Midwestern perspective
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Some IT lessons learned from closed-door Knowledge discussions include a fount of revelations about consumer influence, IT coverage and gaps still left to hurdle, whether that jump is through technology advancements or changes in governance.
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"Transformational journeys" in grid modernization detailed by winners
Energy Central's KITE Awards for CIO of the year go Mike Winters at Hydro One and Branndon Kelley at American Municipal Power for their leadership in transforming IT's role in their organizations as they pursue grid modernization. Both CIOs share details of their journey and the work at their respective utlities as the Knowledge2012 Summit gets underway this week in Houston.
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A utility's use of data reflects its vision for value creation
While utility data can (and should) be applied to a specific case, such as revenue protection or asset management, its value to all aspects of a utility's operation and business means that its use can also enable collaboration between former silos.
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Industry concerns about `voluntary' measures
Congress won't pass the administration's Cyber Security Act of 2012, so an executive order is getting run up the flagpole. Is it a bargaining tactic or a last resort? One contributor makes the case that more is less.
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Doubters may bray, but it's going to market
While the power industry continues to debate the feasibility of V2G or vehicle-to-grid, one scientist/inventor has quietly accomplished enough enabling technology to go to market. We look at the latest developments in commercial deployment as well as at a leading utility and an RTO.
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Yes, these words do belong together
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Oncor’s data analytics initiatives offer wide-scope view
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Dan Hill discusses IT’s evolving role
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Denver conference tackles IT, customers and regulation
A shifting business and technology landscape has left utilities under-invested in information technology and the systems that ride on it, according to consultancy Five Point. Industry leaders gather in Denver in October to examine the road ahead.
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If used, apps open door to engagement and benefits
In the past year that the so-called "Green Button" open standard for energy use data has been available, various parties have developed consumer-oriented apps that make it easy and fun to engage and manage home and business energy use. That's got to be a good thing.
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Energy utility industry group grows organically
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