Tag: Utilities

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

On the Mediterranean island of Malta, with a population of about 400,000 people on a land mass of just over 300 square ... Read Article

A little over a year ago, the challenges facing the global energy and utilities market were driving a significant wedge between utilities ... Read Article

Just as global demand for energy is steadily increasing, so too, are the recognized costs of power generation. A recent report about ... Read Article

I have to admit it. Despite all the exciting new technologies out there, I am finding myself to be a people person ... 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

Intelligent Plant Lifecycle Management (iPLM) is the process of managing a generation facility's data and information throughout its lifetime - from initial ... Read Article

A NEW GENERATION OF CUSTOMER Today's utility customers are energy dependant, information driven, technologically advanced, willing to change and environmentally friendly. Their ... Read Article

Energy systems in both mature and developing economies around the world are undergoing fundamental changes. There are early signs of a physical ... Read Article

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 the SmartGrid vision requires more than advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and advanced networking technologies. While ... Read Article

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

Merger and acquisition activity in the U.S. electric utility industry has increased following the 2005 repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company ... Read Article

Many people in the utility industry see the intelligent grid — an electric transmission and distribution network that uses information technology to ... Read Article