• PHEVs Are on a Roll

    The electric vehicle first made its appearance about a century ago, but it is only in recent years - months, to be ... Read Article

    Meeting Future Utility Operating Challenges With a Smart Grid

    The classical school of utility operations prescribes four priorities, ranked in the following descending order: safety, reliability, customer service and profit. Although ... Read Article

    Plugging in the Consumer

    Thanks to new technologies and the spirit of independence and empowerment fostered by the digital age, consumers are taking on broader and ... Read Article

    Achieving Decentralized Coordination In the Electric Power Industry

    For the past century, the dominant business and regulatory paradigms in the electric power industry have been centralized economic and physical control. ... Read Article

    The GridWise Olympic Peninsula Project

    The Olympic Peninsula Project consisted of a field demonstration and test of advanced price signal-based control of distributed energy resources (DERs). Sponsored ... Read Article

    Ontario Pilot

    Smart metering technologies are making it possible to provide residential utility customers with the sophisticated "smart pricing" options once available only to ... Read Article

    Business Intelligence: The 'Better Light Bulb' for Improved Decision Making

    Although some utilities have improved organizational agility by providing high-level executives with real-time visibility into operations, if they're to be truly effective, ... Read Article