Want a more resilient city?

Superstorm Sandy was a watershed moment in North America. It forced cities to confront the realities of climate change. Severe weather events will be much more common in the future. How can your city be more resilient? One answer is to enlist help from computers. An application called outage management can help you locate and restore service interruptions more quickly. And if your city has a unified emergency control center, it can pass through information on what areas are out and when they are expected to get back online. >> Read more

Keeping up with the future: Latest smart grid developments 

The electric utility industry is caught between yesterday's and tomorrow's technology. There are some pretty remarkable applications and adaptations available today, but it can be difficult to move from an established working technology to the promise of an unfamiliar technology, especially if you have limited resources. When you are responsible for keeping the lights on, it can be challenging to determine which technology best fulfills the mission of providing your customers with the highest quality power. >> Read more about many of the new developments that are worth exploring.

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Sensors stop energy thieves

A recent Forbes magazine article states that non-technical energy losses (energy theft) in the US are estimated at 6 BUSD per year. A cost effective approach to energy theft detection is to attach sensors, a measuring device (watt-hour meter), and communications equipment to the low voltage side of distribution transformers. Learn how a system, efficiently installed in minutes, can detect possible fraud in energy consumption. >> Read more

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Can wind power keep energy prices in check?
                         
Manufacturing is beginning to return to the U.S. because of low natural gas prices, but they tend to fluctuate. With wind, companies always know what the fuel cost will be, which is why wind power plants are able to sign 20-year power purchase agreements. Without wind energy to provide competition for natural gas as an energy source, natural gas prices will be allowed to rise unchecked. >> Read more

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On-site service can cut downtime for transformer repair

A damaged transformer can be an expensive problem; not only do you have to pay for the repair, but you may also lose revenue if you cannot transmit electricity or need to procure replacement power. Also, the biggest transformers are so large and heavy that it is very expensive and often impractical to ship them back to the factory for repair. A new on-site repair solution expedites the process, saving time and money. >> Read more

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