Electricity Forum Intelligent Power Today Magazine Arc Flash Clothing
Electricity Today T&D Magazine
Archives

Smart Grid

Utility Automation & Monitoring

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 great value to the utility. Unfortunately, the tools available to work with this information are often rudimentary and create difficulties...
Grid Communications

T&D Sensing and Measurement Market Overview

When it comes to T&D Sensing and Measurement, the electric grid is changing. The industry is undergoing a dramatic shift in the mix of generated electric power, driving demand for grid transparency, reliability, and utility accountability. To meet these demands, utilities must change the way...

Smart Metering

AMI & AMR

Fire Safety & Smart Meters

New study shows metering devices are electrically safe BY LEN GARIS, Fire Chief of the City of Surrey A new study by a Canadian university may help mitigate any lingering concerns about the fire safety of smart meters. “Revisiting the Safety of Smart Meter Installations in British Columbia”,...
Customer Billing

Sales Order Automation for Electric Utilities

In today’s technology driven society, the pace of business is faster than ever. With access to new tools and innovations, electrical distributors are continuously expected to improve efficiency and customer service, delivering more with less and in increasingly rapid ordering cycles. Faced with...
Data Analytics

Geo-targeting with Data Analytics

How to reduce peak load in constrained areas of the grid BY W. HUGH GAASCH, Retroficiency With an aging infrastructure, rising demand, and an increasingly stringent regulatory climate, utilities across the country face some tough decisions in the coming decade. The American Association of Civil...
Home Automation

Automation

Smart Grid, Smart Metering, T&D Automation

Integrated Energy Forecasting

Improving T&D planning and operations

BY TAO HONG, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Running the most complicated man-made object in the world, utilities are keeping the lights on for 5.3 billion people globally. In such an engineering savvy industry, energy forecasting is a crucial but often underestimated element. Throughout North America’s electric power system, all segments, from generation, transmission to distribution and retail, need forecasts for planning and operations.

Across the utility industry,...

T&D Automation Articles

T&D Buyer’s Guide Companies

Smart Grid Shared Media

Catalog

Electricity Today T&D Magazine - SCADA for the Smart Grid Sept&Oct 2019 Special Edition

Catalog

Electricity Today T&D Magazine - Smart Grid Summer 2018 Issue

Catalog

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