Utilities Bank on IoT for Network Reliability Improvement to Decrease Lost...
Power grids around the world are getting smarter thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT). While Smart Grid technologies are making the headlines, and...
Using Transformer Monitoring Via the IoT to Combat Electricity Theft
According to the annual Emerging Markets Smart Grid: Outlook 2015 study by the Northeast Group, LLC, the world loses US$89.3 billion annually to electricity theft, with...
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...
Community Renewable Energy and Reliable Service
This past winter, extreme weather cost the United States more than $5 billion in property damage, closed businesses and travel disruptions. Early indications also...
Future of Utility Communications
Increasingly, electric utilities are deploying intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) and other smart apparatus in substations and along distribution feeders as well as equipping field...
The Smart Grid Prophecy
For years, industry publications have touted Smart Grid cost-benefit study results that show Smart Grid investments paying for themselves with reduced utility costs. The...
Customer Billing Service Options
As competition among electric utilities heats up and additional retailers enter the market with electricity offerings, a noticeable trend has emerged: a heightened focus...
The Power Of Microgrids
Navigant Research forecasts that the worldwide microgrid market will grow to more than 4,000 megawatts in capacity by 2020. However, policymakers must emphasize standards...
ADVANCED ANALYTICS
Recent technological and economic events are poised to transform the electric utility industry. Described as “game changers” by industry thought-leaders, these “disruptive challenges” stem...
BIG DATA ADVANTAGES
Currently, modern electric utilities are facing an avalanche of new data. Each new system deployed presents a tremendous amount of information that can provide...
2015: The Year on Fast Forward
The year 2015 has come and gone so quickly. Those who work in the power industry will concur that time might move faster than...
Outage Management Review: Outage Intelligence
The permeation of intelligence into the medium-voltage network is continuing apace, bringing the reality of the Smart Grid ever closer. One target of the...
