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FirstEnergy Explores Alternatives to PJM Capacity Market

In a strategic move aimed at enhancing its power supply reliability, FirstEnergy is actively exploring alternatives to the PJM capacity market. This development reflects the company’s proactive approach to addressing challenges within the existing market structure and ensuring a more robust...

Storm Outage Restoration Congress comes to Georgia

Cairo Vanegas, the superintendent Of Electric T&D for Fort Pierce Utilities Authority will speaking at the Storm Outage Restoration Congress on December 11th and 12th in Atlanta, Georgia on "Examining Methods For Reducing Damage To Overhead Infrastructure Through Armless Construction And Other...

Working with Third-Party Companies

How utilities can outsource essential functions or services BY ASBURY GAULT, Zenius LLC In today’s business world with ever-increasing employee benefit costs, regulated utilities are challenged with reducing their costs for the benefit of all stakeholders. This force is driving utility managers...

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 availability increases. Anything that takes the RTU out of service – configuration change, firmware update, or...

Moving Forward with LED Retrofits

Evaluating options for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) BY JEFF GOLDSTEIN, LaMar Lighting Lighting and related maintenance costs can constitute a significant portion of the commercial building's budget. Tasked with reducing costs, facility managers, owners and operations professionals re-evaluate...

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Distributed Energy Resources: Part 2. Leading the transformation to a cleaner, smarter, more flexible grid

Big transformations often result from a multitude of small and rapidly proliferating changes. We’re on the cusp of such a change in Ontario’s electricity system, and in other jurisdictions across Canada and North America, with the potential for a cleaner, more intelligent and more flexible grid to emerge.
The change-driver is the diverse set of grid-connected projects and technologies referred to as Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). These include smaller-scale and geographically dispersed generating resources, commonly...

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