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When Thomas Edison brought the Pearl Street Generating Station on line in Manhattan in 1882, he gave birth to an industry. But in the succeeding century that industry has only […]

The New England Power Exchange installed a security upgrade system (SUS) to solve problems with obsolescence and security in its energy management system. Careful planning was the key to the successful implementation of the SUS.

Tomas Marzec-Manser/London EU energy regulators expect to finalize the most pressing grid problems within Europe by next month, following feedback from participants. After whittling down the key priorities for grid [...]

Byline: Matthew Philips As President Obama champions alternative energy, a vexing problem remains: there's no way to share wind and solar surpluses nationally--whisking, say, a percentage of the Midwest's abundant [...]

As utilities expand their transmission facilities and interconnections with neighbouring systems a number of power flow related problems arise. Such problems include overloading of lines and/or equipment, loop flows (difference [...]

When they had developed the necessary physical infrastructure, the interconnected grid, European electricity utilities were able to start developing a European market. Large interconnected electricity generation and transmission systems, UCPTE, [...]

Sorry, there's none here either The government's populist energy policies are beginning to cause chaos LAST year, as the southern hemisphere's winter stretched Argentina's vulnerable energy infrastructure to near breaking-point, [...]

Byline: New York Regional Interconnect, Inc. New York Regional Interconnect, Inc. (NYRI) and the staff of the Public Service Commission of the New York Department of Public Service (NYPSC) have [...]

Frankfort Plant Board (FPB) in Kentucky has chosen Telvent Miner & Miner's Fiber Manager application to help manageits fiber optic network withinits current ArcFM-based enterprise GIS. FPB has been using [...]

THE RELIABILITY OF A DISTRIBUTION NETWORK, coupled with the need to improve the management of these networks, is a problem utilities around the world face. Improved system reliability is beneficial [...]

Built-in inspection and inventory functionality enables field crews to locate facility assets rapidly using the software's integrated statewide detailed road maps for address lookup, routing and navigation. The functionality included [...]

har*GIS Field Information Systems (Centennial, Colorado, U.S.) has released a software application that increases efficiencies in the maintenance of distribution assets. Based on TruckMap*, a field information system by har*GIS, [...]

Sir, Ofgem estimates that the theft of electricity from distribution networks costs [pounds sterling]100 million or more each year. This problem is part of a wider problem of data quality [...]

It looks like almost everyone has a slant on how to avoid blackouts. Of course, there is money to be made in any crisis. Last year, a mixed bag of [...]

As with many other aspects of the power delivery industry, deregulation and restructuring are changing how utilities and customers approach power quality monitoring. Traditionalists view PQ monitoring as a reactive [...]

Earlier this year, a violent spring storm spawned a tornado that tore down seven spans of an electric feeder near Disney World (Orlando, Florida, U.S.), knocking out power to approximately [...]

With the increased demand for uptime and decreased tolerance for unplanned shutdowns, industrial facilities are under more pressure than ever to keep their electrical systems running properly. And corporate belt-tightening [...]

Only months after bringing into operation new penalties for underperformance by power distribution companies, energy regulator Ofgem has started consultations on putting more pressure on gas and electricity distributors to [...]

An independent system operator's view on the energy crisis and the realities of maintaining reliability. WHAT IS HAPENING TO THE DEREGULATION of California's electric energy market? It started out as [...]

The fundamental principles of cooperative operation are inherently in conflict with the traditional concept of an IPO. IN A SERIES OF ARTICLES APPEARING IN THIS publication, Douglas Beresford offered a [...]

The California energy crisis has led to the growth of power-demand aggregators, which pride themselves on producing "nega-watts" - wholesale reductions in power usage. One of those organizations uses two-way […]

Waverly Light and Power in Iowa is no stranger to innovation. It was the first municipally owned utility in the Midwest to own a wind generator. It built and operates [...]

FOR 20 YEARS, DISTRIBUTED GENERATION HAS BEEN THE BIG BANG that almost happened. New technologies are just around the comer, developers said. The build up came I often, but not [...]

Automation Perspectives last featured a discussion on computer-based outage management and trouble call systems in early 1996. Of real concern for the industry was and still is the issue of [...]

ASCO hosts discussion on economics, net metering and interconnection issues Energy users and utility managers shared experiences and perspectives on distributed power (DP) at a roundtable discussion sponsored by ASCO [...]

Why deregulation needs a technology reboot. WELL, IT'S BEEN QUITE AN ELECTRIFYING year, with California taking the lead, as always. Now the San Diego Syndrome and the Silicon Valley Rolling [...]

The crisis in energy availability has caused a re-thinking of how we do business. The best, most economical and feasible solution is to send workers home-to work. This is not […]

YOU'VE PROBABLY never thought twice about leaving a PC on at work or at home. There was always juice to run it--all day and all night, if necessary--and the few […]

At 6 a.m. Ron Holt is already at work, answering correspondence and e-mails from customers and co-workers. KGE's top executive likes to get to work early, before the phones start [...]

The ISO forges ahead, with or without its members. WHAT IF YOU FORMED A REGIONAL transmission organization and nobody joined? That's the question in the Midwest, as one by one, [...]

Why it's just as important for the old economy. MENTION "POWER QUALITY" AND THE mind conjures up visions of tech hotels stuffed with Internet servers running 24/7, retrofitted into inner [...]

To manage congestion on the power grid, most traders would rather book a firm path than risk a loss on a financial hedge. THE UTILITY REGULATORS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. want [...]

Silicon Valley companies are facing the reality that a widening energy crisis in the western United States could disrupt or shut down plants and offices. Michelle Montague-Bruno, communications director for […]

Until now Ukraine's energy sector has received minimal investment, but this may change as the government begins to sell off electricity distribution firms. Ukrainian privatization representatives have completed a second [...]

In an effort to reduce high energy consumption due to a record-breaking heat wave, California Grocers Association members powered down for several days after the California Independent System Operator issued [...]

James Varley is the managing editor of Modern Power Systems As noted previously in these pages, the Internet and the digital economy are proving to be major drivers of increased [...]

Does energy efficiency hold the key to the quickest and most cost-effective way to boost the integrity of the US electricity supply network and stop the blackouts? YES: Through a [...]

CCHP owners have opportunities to sell into the grid The ongoing restructuring of the electric industry has complicated the decisions associated with investing in and operating combined cooling, heating, and [...]

Several solutions to the power delivery problem have been proposed. It behooves us, as engineers, to consider these solutions, which can go a long way toward avoiding a crisis. And [...]

In January, the U.S. Department of Energy reported that the rush toward competition is making the U.S. power system less reliable because most utilities own aging networks that are already [...]

In Japan, it is not yet decided whether the distribution system of 6 kV and below will be opened for retail wheeling. However, the same pressure for reducing the distribution [...]