There is an increased focus on transmission and distribution investments to address aging and distressed infrastructure. Previously voluntary reliability.... . .

To improve emergency response operations, utilities across the United States and Canada are increasingly adopting the Incident Command System (ICS).. . .

“The move to a smart grid requires utilities to raise the bar and attain a higher level of sophistication when it comes to project management. Specifically, a project management office will help ...

In basic terms, a geographic information system (GIS) for energy services or utility companies bring together, manages and makes use of two broad groupings of information – landbase and facilities d. ...

Electrical power transmission networks are protected and controlled by medium and high-voltage circuit breakers. Breakers are meant to make and break the flow of electrical currents in transmission ...

The past year has seen a dramatic change in the metering market. Previously, utilities faced questions about cost-justifying Automated Meter Reading (AMR)—projects that reduced personnel and insuran. ...

Conducting a thorough examination of architectural impacts, signal attributes, business and regional challenges, as well as other factors impacting wireless utility communications, will help utilities ...

61850 delivers a comprehensive toolkit of best practices for substation automation and other application domains. It's the only non-proprietary international standard that addresses substation control ...

Transformer management, testing and the resulting diagnoses and recommendations are said by some to be at a crossroads. Today’s many adverse factors, if not corrected, are forming ‘a perfect storm. . ...

Serial communications have been used in industrial automation for many decades, particularly starting in the early 1960s with the invention of integrated circuits and accelerating when (relatively) lo ...

Electric and magnetic fields are important factors to be considered when designing transmission lines. They occur in nature and have become much more prevalent in our everyday lives through man-made ...

The Smart Grid is an industry transformation – a transformation that is shifting the business and operational models used by utilities from a siloed approach to a more cohesive one. Wave 1 of the ...