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Many utilities still operate their back office information technology (IT) in separate “silos” that are poorly integrated. Now the electric power industry is turning its attention to creating the same kind of “enterprise class” systems that have been popular in other industries for the past two decades. The Smart Grid build out will require many utilities to invest heavily in modernizing their back office operations – and as you’ll learn in this section, some familiar names from the computing industry are offering high-power technologies custom-tailored for them.
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Telvent, the IT company for a sustainable and secure world, announced today it will be supplying its Distribution Management System (DMS) components for an advanced network control system planned by Hungarian power distribution companies EMASZ Halozati Kft Miskolc and ELMU Halozati Kft Budapest. This new network control system will serve nearly half of Hungary’s electric consumers. Hungarian automation engineering company PROLAN, supported by Telvent, was awarded the project over other elite European competitors. |
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Entergy, a Fortune 500 company with 14,300 employees,
produces and delivers electric power to 2.7 million customers in
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. The company has
captured trillions of records from its supervisory control and
data acquisition (SCADA) system and its more than 320,000
SCADA objects. To better extract value from SCADA data, the
utility deployed a real-time data storage application, called
Pegasus RDS™, which was created by Microsoft® partner
Nobadeer Software, Inc. |
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As this overview discusses, primary drivers for selecting OSIsoft PI at CPS Energy were the ability to create custom displays easier, to retrieve data quickly and easily using common tools such as Excel, plus dissatisfaction with performance of existing historian and a desire to make use of the multiple interface capability (T&D EMS, Gas SCADA, Modbus, etc.) and to provide access to data for staff in corporate offices.
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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) today introduced the SEL-3610 Port Server, the latest addition to SEL’s secure communications lineup. The SEL-3610 economically expands serial port availability and secures Ethernet access to serial products. |
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Ohio's American Electric Power has selected S&C Energy Company, an innovative Smart Grid player specializing in electricity reliability, to participate in its gridSMART Project in Ohio. The demonstration project will include a variety of Smart Grid technologies, including distribution, utility back office and consumer programs. |
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Energics inc. today introduced the release of "intelligence for energy™" - the company’s new patented portfolio of revolutionary data solutions for the Smart Grid. |
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Hewlett-Packard will buy network equipment manufacturer 3Com for $2.7 billion in a bid to grow its business in China and its network gear operations — and, ultimately, to challenge networking giant Cisco. Looks like a battle brewing for some of the action in the Smart Grid space. |
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HP (NYSE: HPQ) and 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) (“3Com”) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase 3Com, a leading provider of networking switching, routing and security solutions, at a price of $7.90 per share in cash or an enterprise value of approximately $2.7 billion. The terms of the transaction have been approved by the HP and 3Com boards of directors. |
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Microsoft says its new software architecture will help identify and solve issues that arise as utilities align their IT and business processes to integrate with Smart Grid technologies. |
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Southern Company’s rapid business growth had created server sprawl, threatening to outstrip the available data center space and driving up costs by consuming more energy each year. Virtualizing and consolidating on Dell PowerEdge R900 servers with the Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series enables the Southern Company IT team to save data center space, reduce costs, and increase energy efficiency. |
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FERC study projects big savings from demand response... VC warns of clean tech bubble... Areva’s new alliance adds back office expertise to Smart Grid offerings... Congress hears the downside of federal transmission siting authority... NIST publishes interim Smart Grid standards document |
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This eight-page white paper from EDS purports to discuss "global energy trends." In reality, it doesn't say much more than "technology can be useful" and "EDS can be helpful." |
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A 22-slide presentation from a system integrator. Begins with an overview of the Smart Grid, its impact on utilities and the relevant provisions in the Stimulus bill. Concludes with the case study of using IBM WebSphere DataPower to provide a secure architecture for building Smart Grid applications. |
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A five-page white paper from a vendor explaining the IT and back office implications of smart meters and smart grids. The paper points out that metering and distribution automation will create a flood of data and suggest how utilities should prepare for the changes. |
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CURRENT GROUP provides utilities with actionable intelligence driving decision making to improve performance and cut costs. At Oncor, it has improved operations and customer service with its end-to-end Smart Grid solution. Hello Smart Grid, good-bye BPL. |
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White paper that focuses on the practical steps to fully realize the potential for smart energy, the convergence of information technology and electric power in the Northwest. |
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