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There's an App for Achieving a Smarter Grid Today

By James Mustarde, Marketing Director, Twisted Pair Solutions, November, 02, 2011 - The water-cooler discussion these days is about how media over hyped Hurricane Irene. However, I'd venture a guess that the millions of consumers who lost power, as well as the utility companies who worked tirelessly to restore it, would argue against that notion. more...
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Hurricane Irene, Nikola Tesla, and Improving Outage Management

By Tim Taylor, Industry Solution Executive, Ventyx, September, 16, 2011 - On Sunday August 28, the center of the hurricane/tropic storm named Irene went about 30 miles west of Shoreham, NY, located on the Long Island Sound. Being on the east side of the storm, Shoreham and the rest of Long Island were exposed to its greatest fury. At its peak, 523,000 Long Island Power Authority customers were without power. more...
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Three Big Band-Aids

By Gay Gordon-Byrne, Vice President, TekTrakker Information Systems, LLC, August, 25, 2011 - These three terms are deeply deceptive marketing terms intended to hide the very real problems of electronic equipment in the field. The fact is that electronics break a lot. If they didn't break, networks wouldn't need to be self-healing, scada systems wouldn't need to be fault tolerant or fully redundant. That these marketing concepts even exist is testimony to the weaknesses of the equipment. No one should strive to seek these "features" in their equipment choices. The goal should be to deploy equipment that is so solid that equipment failure is a non-issue. more...
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Turning On The Lights For Customer Service Appointments

By Jennifer Friedman, Vice President - Marketing, TOA, July, 27, 2011 -

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Technical and Commercial Losses -- this is Gold for the Electrical Industry

By Joao Gomes, Technical Manager, , June, 03, 2011 - The Smart Grid will provide tools and information essential to the solution or at least reducing these losses to an acceptable level, if there is acceptable level for this. Today this division between Technical and Commercial losses that the proportion of 58% for Technical losses and 42% for Commercial losses. The control of Technical and Commercial losses of electricity needs to be rigorously implemented and monitored in the distribution companies and electric utilities. The Utilities must therefore be able to identify the losses by type -- Technical or Commercial -- and where they occur, to try to reach the optimum level of losses. more...
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Smart Compatible Units in Emergent Work

By Mithun Das, Senior Consultant, Infosys Technologies Ltd., June, 01, 2011 - With the advent of the smart grid solution there would be an increasing need of smart planning and designing especially the routine repetitive work. Increase in the real time data coming from the Smart equipments in the upcoming Smart Grid World will ensure correct diagnosis of the issues and appropriate actions being taken. This will ensure faster response to the outages and reduction of manual effort as well as errors. more...
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Leveraging "Analytics" to Drive Enterprise Performance Improvements in Utility Smart Grid Initiatives

By Subroto Kar, Practice Manager, Infosys Technologies Ltd., May, 18, 2011 -

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Transmitting Canadian Hydroelectric Power to the USA via Submarine Cable

By Harry Valentine, Commentator/Energy Researcher, , January, 25, 2011 -

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SMART GRID -- Education + Information + Knowledge = End of Monopoly

By Joao Gomes, Technical Manager, , January, 04, 2011 - The break in the Monopoly in the area of Electric Power Distribution is closer than we could imagine, education, information and knowledge is a combination similar to an avalanche, know how it starts, but not when it ends. more...
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Dirty Little Secret -- Smart Devices are Consumer Electronics

By Gay Gordon-Byrne, Vice President, TekTrakker Information Systems, LLC, December, 14, 2010 - Look under the plastic covers of any smart device, and you will see a printed circuit board and attachments and wires that should be familiar to anyone in the computer industry. This simple fact should give everyone using this equipment pause. Why would this equipment, whose origins and designs have been forged in a throw-away culture of consumer electrics, be durable enough for the demands of the electric utility? The answer is clear. They aren't. more...
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