As a group, utilities have trillions of dollars of grid assets, from substations to wires to meters and much more. Scroll down to find information on how smart sensors and smart software extend the life and value of these field assets.
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A new partnership between Clevest Solutions (field force automation) and In Motion Technology (field force wireless communications) provides a glimpse of a likely future for utility workers.
Traditional outage management poses at least three challenges for electric utilities -- lack of timely reporting, slow restoration of nested outages and difficulty diagnosing single-customer outages. With a well-designed AMI system, utilities can overcome those issues, according to Chris Montgomery of Silver Spring Networks. Click to learn the six outage-management capabilities Chris says your AMI system should deliver.
With millions of dollars of federal stimulus money now in the hands of utilities and vendors to support smart grid initiatives around the U.S., project momentum is building. So where are the jobs? This toolkit will help you find them.
If you agree that the shortage of technical talent is the number one gating factor in the build-out of the smart grid, you'll want to read what a former VP at Trilliant is trying to do about it in - of all places - Buenos Aires. It's an interesting venture, with implications for utilities everywhere. SGN Analyst Jesse Berst explains why inside.
Are you wrestling with tough control system and substation automation problems? Need a smarter way to track field assets? Want a fast solution for analyzing day-two smart grid implementation benefits? Our latest product roundup may help; click inside for seven new smart grid solutions on the market now (or on the way soon).
While power has been restored after a massive blackout cut power to more than a million customers in the San Diego area and parts of Arizona Thursday afternoon, FERC, other federal and state agencies and the affected utilities are investigating the cause. Could smart grid technologies avert such disasters in the future? We think so.
Utilities are increasingly overwhelmed by data pouring in from smart meters and sensors. SGN Analyst Jesse Berst says some are turning to complex event processing techniques perfected in sectors where data volumes are even higher. One example: The EventManager just launched by Florida-based Infrax System. Details inside.
DOE has released the final version of a handy tool designed to give users a way to estimate power interruption costs as well as the benefits of reliability improvements. Click inside for a look at the Interruption Cost Estimate Calculator.
Intergraph Corporation has picked up Augusta Systems in a move designed to provide its customers with more flexible solutions for monitoring and visualizing complex data. Click inside for more.
This is the first segment from our July 19, 2011 webinar on best practices for merging information technology and operational technology presented with Accenture as part of SGN's Lessons from the Real World webinar series. In it moderator Jesse Berst introduces the panelists and provides a brief overview. He is followed by Wade Malcolm, Accenture's Senior Director of Smart Grid Operational Technology, who discusses why electric utilities need to blend IT and OT.
In this second segment from our July 19, 2011 webinar on best practices for merging information technology and operational technology, Wade Malcolm, Accenture's Senior Director of Smart Grid Operational Technology, cites some of the difficulties companies have discovered while trying to blend IT and OT – and some of the pitfalls to avoid.
In this third segment from our July 19, 2011 webinar on best practices for merging information technology and operational technology, Mark Wyatt, Vice President of Grid and Smart Energy Systems at Duke Energy, discusses steps his utility has taken to in the ongoing process of merging IT and OT. He also highlights best practices they utilize, as well as the impact NERC CIP has on the process.
In this fourth and final segment from our July 19, 2011 webinar on best practices for merging information technology and operational technology, our expert panelists answer audience questions regarding the importance of IEC Spec 61-970 and 61-968, integrating AMI and DMS and personnel skills needed for this process.
This document includes the presentation materials used in the Smart Grid News webinar on merging IT and OT presented July 19, 2011 with Accenture. Featured panelists were Wade Malcolm, Accenture's Senior Director of Smart Grid Operational Technology, and Mark Wyatt, Vice President of Grid and Smart Energy Systems at Duke Energy. Jesse Berst moderated.
After running through a mixed bag of job reports – hundreds of openings here, thousands of layoffs coming there -- we decided to do our own spot check of the industry. We scanned jobs sites for more than 20 electric utilities and smart grid vendors around the country. And were stunned by what we found. You may be too.
Having trouble finding qualified linemen? In the not-too-distant future, you may be able to use miniaturized, line-crawling robots to do some of the work. In this latest installment of his smart grid Discovery Showcase series, founding editor Jesse Berst brings us the story of a technology breakthrough that allows tiny robots to apply huge amounts of force... and, therefore, to tackle all sorts of new tasks. Click to read more.
As utilities move to integrate information technology and operational technology, they are finding the journey is not so easy. Data privacy and security hurdles. Impacts to legacy systems. New skill sets to teach ... the list goes on. Jesse Berst has been talking with experts from Duke and Accenture about these challenges; we think you'll be interested in what he's learned.
The smart grid is about much more than meters, says LumaSense Technologies CEO Vivek Joshi. He contends that it will be impossible to optimize grid performance until utilities have readily accessible and accurate information on how well (or how badly) their transformers are operating. Get the details inside.
ABB will pick up Australia-based enterprise software and services provider Mincom, a move it says will add depth to its enterprise management offering – and beef up its leadership position in the key growth sectors of natural resources and energy.
This report examines the current state of utility asset optimization within the framework of a vertically integrated utility and presents evidence on why assets are not fully optimized today. It then discusses how smart grid processes, technologies, and applications could be leveraged to improve today’s asset management programs enabling a significant improvement in the utilization of both system assets and human resources.
In the fourth and final installment of our Day in the Life series, SAIC's Louis Szablya suggests a scenario showing how the difficult job of a utility operations manager might look in a smart grid world.
Georgia Power and the Electric Power Research Institute are working on a joint study to evaluate how solar power systems might affect the utility's distribution system.
The innovative systems and technologies that the smart grid will enable will touch nearly every utility department and employee. In the first of a four-part series, Louis Szablya of SAIC shows us the impact a smarter grid could have on a utility lineman's typical day at work.
It's going to take smart energy management to move the EV rollout forward, and a public-private Bay Area Group and Green Charge Networks think they've got the answers.
As the future becomes the present, Andy Bochman maintains it's more urgent than ever for power companies to attract engineers capable of designing, managing and maintaining the new systems the smart grid demands. Where will they come from? He's got thoughts on that inside.
We're getting mixed signals about the vitality of the smart grid market. On the one hand, the recent DistribuTECH conference was one of the most successful ever. On the other, a well-known Wall Street analyst recently told his clients that the smart metering sector is "facing several headwinds," including weak regulatory support in the U.S. and delays in European adoption. Taking the pulse of the smart grid industry is this week's Tuesday Topic.
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