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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...

Customer Billing

Count the Customers:

The transmission and distribution system links power generators and electricity consumers, but it is an often neglected part of any discussion about the future of electricity. Yet paying for this key piece of infrastructure is a giant influence on how the electric grid can or should change as such...

FERC Rejects PJM Transmission Planning Change

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has rejected a proposal from PJM Interconnection, one of the United States' largest regional transmission organizations, to alter its transmission planning protocol. The decision represents a significant victory for state regulators who had expressed...

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...

Advanced Energy Meters & Power Quality

Addressing concerns from the utility and end user’s perspective BY DAVID BOVANKOVICH, E-Mon The increasing sophistication of commercial and industrial devices and equipment continues to drive the critical need for clean, dependable, stable electric power. As such, power quality continues to gain...
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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 Smart Grid enterprise enhancements. However, methodologies to define, design, build and test this integration are not “one size fits all”. To assume that the ‘standard’ methodology, tools, business process definitions and technology that...

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