Tag: Utilities

Persistent climate change concerns, volatile energy prices and a growing awareness of technological advancement in energy are leading consumers across the globe ... Read Article

Persistent climate change concerns, volatile energy prices and a growing awareness of technological advancement in energy are leading consumers across the globe ... Read Article

The U.S. utility industry – particularly the electric-producing branch of it, there also are natural gas and water utilities – has found ... Read Article

The nuclear power industry is facing significant employee turnover, which may be exacerbated by the need to staff new nuclear units. To ... Read Article

In the past, distribution demand reduction was a technique used only in emergency situations a few times a year - if that. ... Read Article

Smart or advanced electricity metering, using a fixed network communications path, has been with us since pioneering installations in the US Midwest ... Read Article

Change is being forced upon the utilities industry. Business drivers range from stakeholder pressure for greater efficiency to the changing technologies involved ... Read Article

For the last few decades the growth of the world's population and its corresponding increased demand for electrical energy has created a ... Read Article

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

The smart grid is progressing well on several fronts. Groups such as the Grid Wise Alliance, events such as Grid Week, and ... Read Article

Every year, utilities are faced with the critical decision of where to invest capital. These decisions are guided by several factors, such ... Read Article

The software industry has been using maturity models to define and measure software development capabilities for decades. These models have helped the ... Read Article

For more than 30 years, Newton- Evans Research Company has been studying the initial development and the embryonic and emergent stages of ... Read Article

With utility infrastructure aging rapidly, reliability of service is threatened. Yet the economy is hurting, unemployment is accelerating, environmental mandates are rising, ... Read Article

Today's utility companies are being driven to upgrade their aging transmission and distribution networks in the face of escalating energy generation costs, ... Read Article