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Smart Grid


Grid Modernization

Changing the Utility Business Model

Currently, the power industry is experiencing profound changes that pose a number of uncertainties for electric utilities. Now, utility executives must consider new business models, become acquainted with new industry participants, and understand the new roles emerging for technology, customers,...

Building Wireless Communication Networks

Building wireless communication networks: How utilities can implement a strategy for success BY TONY MILONE, FreeWave Technologies Piecing together the ideal communication network is a challenge for any electric power application. As all power professionals know, planning, research and trial is key...

Big Data

Optimizing Enterprise with Analytics

How utilities can become data-driven organizations As industry challenges continue to grow, the pressure on utilities to optimize their operations has never been stronger. From amplified pressure to manage customer relationships more effectively to the ever-present need to cut operational costs,...

Smart Metering


AMI & AMR

Smart Meters & Transactive Energy

Smart meters and transactive energy: Examining the benefits and addressing the concerns BY JOHN CASKEY, National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) Smart meters are beneficial to consumers and utilities. What makes this meter “smart” is its two-way communication system and ability to...

Demand Response

Demand Response Communications

Weighing choices from AMI to Zigbee to Wi-Fi and cellular BY HOWARD NG, Comverge The demand response industry is currently experiencing some of its greatest success currently in the marketplace. However, similar to all technologies that stand the test of time, demand response started somewhere...

AMI & AMR

AMI Enterprise Integration

Setting the foundation for Smart Grid enterprise enhancements BY SCOTT STEIN, Utility Integration Solutions, Inc. Integration of the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) host system and meter data management system (MDMS) into the utility enterprise is critical to set the foundation for future...

Automation

Smart Grid, Smart Metering, T&D Automation

Information Technology and the Power Grid

Ten information technology trends transforming the power industry

BY PHILL FELTHAM, Editor-in-Chief
Electricity Today Magazine

Information technology is a term that almost sounds like a cliché. However, information technology, or IT, has affected almost every industry worldwide. For example, the healthcare industry now uses e-health, a system as defined by McMaster University as “the knowledge, skills, and tools which enable information to be collected, managed, used, and shared to support the delivery of healthcare and...

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