NERC objects to FERC's approach to audit, seeks reprocessing
NERC asked FERC for a rehearing Tuesday based on the findings of a FERC audit that was conducted over the course of nearly six years. After getting a draft audit last month, NERC requested changes to...
View ArticleMicrogrid technology advancing, forcing utility execs to think on feet
ELECTRIC POWER EXPO: As customers take greater control of their own power use, utilities will have to make some tough decisions on how to manage that loss of controllable load, Matt Dinsmore, director...
View ArticleCMU SURVEY: Utility industry ill-equipped to handle cyber threats
ELECTRIC POWER EXPO: The energy and utilities industries worldwide have the least oversight of cybersecurity and risk management out of any industry, according to the Governance of Enterprise Survey:...
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Itron putting Cooper software in its meter . . . Danish group joins global federation
View ArticleSnohomish County preparing to deploy DA equipment, DMS
Public Utility District (PUD) No 1 of Snohomish County, Wash, has more than half-completed a $31.7 million project to upgrade the county's grid, assisted by $15.8 million from an SGIG
View ArticleCal-ISO streamlines hooking up smaller DG like solar
The Cal-ISO Board of Governors voted last week to streamline the process for interconnecting small distributed generators like solar panels. The ISO will annually publish information showing
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Discussion of Ameren AMI plan imminent . . . Michigan PSC weighing smart meter concerns . . . WGES asks regulators about data access . . . Zpryme names 6 to advisory board . . . ABB's Thomas &...
View ArticleBingaman, others discuss his Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012
Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, did not win any support from minority members for his Clean Energy Standard (CES) Act of 2012 at a hearing on it last week
View ArticlePJM capacity auction offers view into changing energy market
PJM's latest capacity auction saw a record amount of new generation, DR and energy efficiency procured for 2015/2016, the RTO announced Friday. Prices were relatively low in most of the RTO at
View ArticleInternational demo project in New Mexico comes to life
A smart grid demonstration project in New Mexico, which has traveled a rocky road since the initial planning stages, last week went live, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, one of the project partners, told the
View ArticleForensics, logging of cyber incidents not exactly around corner
ELECTRIC POWER EXPO: Forensics and logging of cyber incidents at utilities still must clear some significant hurdles before such processes become a utility mainstay, panelists last week at the
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South Korean test bed using GridMaven software . . . EDX Wireless, Proximetry enter joint venture
View ArticleBGE 33 installations ahead of schedule, it tells PSC
Baltimore Gas & Electric (BG&E) had installed 435 network devices through March 31, putting itself 33 installations ahead of schedule, it said in a filing Friday with Maryland's PSC. It had also
View ArticleAEP signs up headquarters for Viridity smart-building system
Viridity Energy won a contract to manage the load of AEP's headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. The building will be able to take part in the wholesale power market and AEP will experience how
View Article4 utilities in Michigan have different responses to court decision
Indiana Michigan Power (I&M)'s net lost-revenue tracker surcharge (NLRTS) remains unaffected by an early April Michigan Court of Appeals decision finding Michigan's PSC lacked authority to
View ArticleComverge sale goes through; trading of shares halted
HIG Capital completed its purchase of the formerly publicly traded DR firm Comverge, the Miami-based private equity firm told the press yesterday. Ten executives, including CEO R Blake Young
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Guam Power Authority picks Tropos Networks . . . Ecotality posts record revenue for quarter . . . SMUD, Allure working on pilot . . . Pepco installs 261,000 smart meters in DC . . . S&C Electric...
View ArticleEnerNOC's Healy, PJM's Ott reflect on latest PJM auction
Demand response still grew last week's capacity auction in PJM despite a contentious debate over measurement and verification (M&V) practices -- and the resource in general. Firms offered
View ArticleSmart grid technology could vastly improve life in Pakistan
Smart grid technology can help even poor, infrastructure-deprived nations like Pakistan, Raziq Yaqub, a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga professor told students last week at CECOS University
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Scotland looking closely at power supply, demand . . . Park puts in word for IT innovation . . . EnerNex hires Bucciero
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