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Grid Strategy Technology

This is what an analytics partnership looks like: Avista and PNNL’s collaboration

Avista and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together on advancing the grid. You may know that PNNL has been active in developing the concept of transactive energy, “a…

Jill FeblowitzMarch 19, 2019

Grid

Making Sense of Sensors in the Age of the Smart Grid

Grid operators across Europe are experiencing higher maintenance and reinforcement costs than ever before and, without significant increases in funding, are realizing that they must fundamentally change the way that their assets are operated, maintained and replaced. In…

Louis MorganMarch 14, 2019

Grid Strategy Technology

Expedite Energy Transformation by Adopting Proven Practices

5 Precepts That Promote Effective Power System Planning and Operations In November 2018, the European Commission adopted a strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive, and climate neutral economy by 2050. Wide-scale energy transformation is central to…

Jaqueline Cochran, Douglas Arent, Jeffrey LoganFebruary 26, 2019

Grid

Operational Analytics: Avoid “Get Rich Quick” Schemes

Defined in the negative, operational analytics are not about those precious “aha” moments or dramatic storytelling; they are about making better decisions in the moment. While there are many popular press stories generated about the beneficial returns from…

Carol StimmelFebruary 19, 2019

Webinars Asset & Workforce Grid Strategy Technology

On-Demand: The Future of Reliability Planning

Customers and regulators have expectations that reliability levels should continue to improve without any substantial costs to themselves. Utilities want to provide continual reliability improvements for their customers, but need to do it in the most efficient and…

Lauren CallawayJanuary 30, 2019

Grid Strategy

Protecting the grid in a time of increasing complexity

Grid reliability cannot be maintained in a silo. The North American bulk power system is a highly complex machine. It is also one of the most critical infrastructures to society and as electrification expands into every aspect of…

James MerloJanuary 30, 2019

Technology Grid

Valuable new data sources for utilities

New data sources for power utilities continue to emerge, a trend that is likely to continue in the digital age. Whether these new data sources can and will be harnessed by utilities for significant value, however, remains an…

John McDonaldJanuary 7, 2019

Technology Customer Grid Strategy

How the utility can do more than just light up the town

The best way to your customers may be through the front doors of City Hall. In the late 1990s, I was working with a cable company that was deeply invested in selling high speed data services to the…

Carol StimmelJanuary 2, 2019

Grid

Smarter Grid, Smarter City

Smart grid will be the leading edge of revolutionary new electric grid capabilities soon to be launched to achieve a set of key environmental and sustainability goals. Next year PGE will begin building three smart grid test beds…

Maria PopeDecember 11, 2018

Technology Grid

The transition from power-line carrier

Comanche Electric Cooperative moves to the next generation of advanced metering infrastructure communications with real-time visibility into the grid. Nov 26, 2018 As technology companies pioneered new mobile applications such as email and web browsing on phones and…

Chad ForemanNovember 30, 2018

Grid Asset & Workforce Customer

New uses of smart meter data are coming to utilities

It is that time again. FERC just published a paper that has been on my night stand every year at this time since 2006: the Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering. The original economic justification for smart…

Jill FeblowitzNovember 28, 2018

Grid Technology

Arrowhead Cooperative Uses Data Analytics to Pinpoint Meter Issues

Arrowhead Cooperative combined data from three grid modernization technologies to pinpoint and prioritize load control receivers that need maintenance. Like many electric cooperatives in the United States, Arrowhead Electric Cooperative Inc. employees have at their fingertips the power of…

Yusef Orest & Nathan GrahlNovember 19, 2018