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Canadian government showcases environmentally friendly Smart Grid projects BY PHILL FELTHAM, Editor-in-Chief In recent years, the Federal Government of Canada has collaborated with electric utilities and other industry organizations to digitize the country’s power grid with clean energy...

Protecting Smart Grid Electronics

Properly selecting outdoor enclosures to increase reliability BY ERIN BRESNAHAN, Purcell Systems The largest deployments of a utility’s communications system tend to occur in areas with little supporting infrastructure other than the transmission and distribution lines, and much of this...
Grid Modernization

Network Security

Protecting sensitive customer and utility data BY JOHN CHOWDHURY, Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc. Smart meters, and the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) on which they depend, collect and transport vast amounts of data. While the data provides more precise energy billing, as well as...

Smart Metering

Customer Billing

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

How AMI Can Improve Grid Reliability and Outage Response

Leveraging AMI to improve grid reliability and outage response BY TIM WOLF, Itron Getting a handle on overall grid reliability and outage trends for the entire U.S. can be challenging. Despite generally high reliability numbers, power outages are occurring more frequently and the U.S. Department...
Home Automation

Automation

Smart Grid, Smart Metering, T&D Automation

Optimizing Enterprise with Analytics

How utilities can become data-driven organizations

As industry challenges continue to grow, the pressure on utilities to optimize their operations has never been stronger. From amplified pressure to manage customer relationships more effectively to the ever-present need to cut operational costs, utilities are challenged to accomplish more with less, and to optimize every area of the enterprise. Add to that the regulatory pressure of new rules requiring accurate and timely estimated time of restoration and...

T&D Automation Articles

Grid Vulnerability

T&D Buyer’s Guide Companies

Smart Grid Shared Media

Catalog

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

Catalog

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

Catalog

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