Smart Grid, Smart Metering, T&D Automation

Smart Metering

Customer Billing

Customer Billing Service Options

As competition among electric utilities heats up and additional retailers enter the market with electricity offerings, a noticeable trend has emerged: a heightened focus on the customer experience. Larger conglomerates and smaller providers alike have made service and communication objectives a top...

Demand Response

Real-time Monitoring is Key to Reducing Energy Consumption

Empowering utilities to assist their customers BY TIM VAN SLAMBROUCK, DENT Instruments Energy utilities and consumers alike can benefit from continuous monitoring of energy usage, because monitoring is the key to identifying areas where consumption can be reduced, and significant cost savings can...

AMI & AMR

Smart Meters for Outage Management

Reviewing the benefits and addressing the obstacles BY RON CLANTON & MARK HOLLIDAY, KPMG LLP The outage management process has undergone remarkable changes over the last several decades. The need to respond to power outages when they occur has been around since the first lines were run from...

Smart Grid

Grid Modernization

Converting Power Lines to Smart Wires

Increasing the observability and control of the transmission network BY FRANK KREIKEBAUM, JERRY MELCHER, & JULIE COUILLARD, Smart Wire Grid, Inc. The North American power grid has evolved into a connected set of four major interconnections delivering low-cost and reliable energy. The U.S....

Smart Meter Deployment & Transitions

In the past 100 years, customer interaction with electric utilities has not changed significantly. However, with the introduction of smart meters, customers are now able to sign up for new programs and access their electricity usage data. In early 2013, the Illinois Energy Infrastructure and...

Grid Modernization

Vehicle-to-Grid Integration

How utilities can move forward using electric vehicles BY BEAUDRY KOCK, Recargo Until recently, North American electric utility reps might have understood electric vehicles in one dimension only: potential adverse impacts on the power grid. However, as knowledge and understanding have grown, such...

Home Automation

Automation

Smart Grid, Smart Metering, T&D Automation

IT and OT Technologies for the Smart Grid

Convergence of information and operation technologies (IT & OT) to build a successful Smart Grid

BY RICK NICHOLSON, Ventyx

Smart Grid is a buzzword that has become an intrinsic part of the North American electric utility industry language in the past few years. Nearly every participant in the industry—investor-owned utilities (IOUs), municipalities, operators, vendors, consultants, analysts, and regulators—promotes the Smart Grid as the vehicle that will allow the industry to modernize its infrastructure and use...

T&D Automation Articles

T&D Buyer’s Guide Companies

Smart Grid Shared Media

Catalog

Electricity Today T&D Magazine

Smart Metering

Customer Billing Service Options

Real-time Monitoring is Key to Reducing Energy Consumption

Smart Meters for Outage Management

Smart Grid

Converting Power Lines to Smart Wires

Smart Meter Deployment & Transitions

Vehicle-to-Grid Integration

Automation

IT and OT Technologies for the Smart Grid

T&D Automation Articles

Deep Packet Inspection Firewalls

Security Protocols

Using Transformer Monitoring Via the IoT to Combat Electricity Theft

Microgrids: Moving Away From Central Power

U.S. Electric Grid Under Cyberattack

How Much DER Fits?

T&D Buyer’s Guide Companies

Smart Grid Shared Media

Automatic Meter Reading - Handbook, Vol. 1

Automation of T&D Systems Handbook

Electricity Today T&D Magazine - Transformer Winter 2018 Issue

Tracking Smart City Trends

Trends in SCADA Security

Why Net-Zero is Cheaper for the UK

Cybersecurity in Substation and Grid Communications

Protecting Electrical Sites with Intelligent Security Lighting

The Copper Theft Pandemic

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