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Wireless Technology for Electric Utilities

The electric industry is making the transformation from a centralized, producer-controlled network to one that is less centralized and more consumer interactive. An automated, widely distributed energy delivery network, the Smart Grid, is characterized by a two-way flow of electricity and...
Data Analytics

The Intelligent City of Tomorrow

The term “smart city” is becoming increasingly common, especially in the public services sector. Cities of all sizes have interdependent systems, from electricity, water, and gas utilities to transportation systems to municipal lighting systems. City officials are discovering how to leverage...

Smart Grid

Renewable Energy Connections

Vehicle-to-Grid Integration

How utilities can move forward using electric vehicles BY BEAUDRY KOCK, Recargo Until recently, North American electric utility reps might have understood electric vehicles in one dimension only: potential adverse impacts on the power grid. However, as knowledge and understanding have grown, such...
Grid Modernization

Internet of Things Phenomenon

The introduction of wearable smart watches was a major step forward for Internet of Things (IoT) technology in the consumer electronics arena, and the next major step for computing. The Guardian News, a U.K.-based national newspaper, calls this next era a “programmable world” where multiple...
Grid Communications

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...
Home Automation

Automation

Smart Grid, Smart Metering, T&D Automation

No Time For Worker Mistakes

Protection and control: Reducing human error for a more reliable power system

BY DAVID COSTELLO, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.

Great time and effort are spent designing reliability into a utility power system. It is difficult to imagine any facet of modern society that does not depend upon the safe, reliable, and economical supply of electric power.

Reliability entities, standards organizations, utility and industrial engineers debate using the same versus different manufacturers’ relays for redundant tasks,...

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Electricity Today T&D Magazine - T&D Automation Jan&Feb 2019 Issue

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Automation of T&D Systems Handbook

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T&D Automation and AMR/AMI Systems Handbook Vol. 2