Tag: Utilities

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

When a utility undergoes a major transformation - such as adopting new technologies like advanced metering - the costs and time involved ... Read Article

If you define a machine as a series of interconnected parts serving a unified purpose, the electric power grid is arguably the ... Read Article

Electric utility companies today constantly struggle to find a balance between generating sufficient power to satisfy their customers' dynamic load requirements and ... Read Article

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

In recent years, exponential demand for new U.S. wind energy-generating facilities has nearly doubled America's installed wind generation. By the end of ... Read Article

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

Utilities have long been on a quest for better ways to handle and make sense of data. Few other industries need control ... Read Article

Utilities in the U.S. stand to save considerable expense by evaluating their customer service operations from a customer cost-to-serve perspective. They spend ... Read Article

The business world seems to be all about “smart” these days. You have smart cars, smart money, even smart mobs. The utility ... Read Article

Introduction Recent moves toward a more competitive retail environment, as well as increased performance expectations from shareholders, have focused utilities on improving ... Read Article