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Federal Funding to Protect Nunavut's Coastal Communities from Climate Change
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has launched a review of the rules surrounding the colocation of large energy consumers, such as data centers, with…
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The Grid of Things
Across all industries, a growing buzz has surfaced around the term “Internet of Things” (IoT). This interest has been fostered by applications that leverage greater…
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Smart Grid in North and South America
Market developments toward grid modernization 17% Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) at which the U.S. SCADA market revenue is expected to grow during the 2014…
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RTU and HMI Redundancy in Electrical Substations
As the substation RTU takes on more applications, such as Human-Machine-Interface (HMI), alarm annunciation, math & logic and “relay communication processing”, its need for high…
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Five Uses for Reliability Data
Despite the fact that electricity is such a critical commodity for every aspect of our lives, its importance is often overlooked. From school children watching…
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CIP Compliance Yields Security Complacency
As the big push behind NERC CIP v5/v6 comes to some form of “conclusion”, most U.S. utility executives are breathing a huge sigh of relief.…
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