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ScottMadden: Helps Client with Outage Cost Control Reporting
ScottMadden, Inc. - ScottMadden, Inc., a leading general management consulting firm, recently assisted a nuclear generator in developing and implementing leading practice cost controls for their upcoming power uprate outage, using Earned Value Management techniques. more...
LOGICA ANNOUNCES ASSET & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED DISTRIBUTION UTILITIES - ARM EXPRESS
Logica - At the 2012 DistribuTECH conference and exhibition, Logica, a leading business and technology service company, will launch ARM Express, its new Asset & Resource Management (ARM) solution. more...
ScottMadden Insight: Five Strategic Priorities for Generation and Transmission Cooperatives
ScottMadden, Inc. - ScottMadden, Inc., one of North America's leading energy consulting firms, recently published "Five Strategic Priorities for Generation and Transmission Cooperatives." more...
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Ventyx Closes Transmission Congestion “Blind Spot” in US Power Markets with Launch of EV Transmission
Ventyx, An ABB Company - Ventyx, an ABB company, today announced availability of EV Transmission, a new analytical tool that provides mission-critical data to helps traders and analysts more quickly analyze and understand the role that transmission plays in North American power markets. more...
Renewables, natural gas to dominate near-term power industry growth
Black & Veatch - Renewable energy capacity will more than triple, while doubling its overall percentage of the U.S. more...
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EXTREME COLD WEATHER IN EUROPE A CLEAR CONSEQUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Blogger Photo By Shehu Khaleel - Bitterly cold weather sweeping across Europe claimed more victims, brought widespread disruption to transport services, and left thousands without power more...

PTCs and Cash Grants Creating a "Green Energy Bubble"?

By Mark Wooldridge - Members of Colorado Delegation Pick Up Bipartisan Push for Extension of Wind Tax Credit - Seven members of the Colorado more...

A Perfect Example of the Normalization of Deviance in the Power Industry

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Summary: The article A how-to guide for hacking your local utility (and what to do now that it is out there), more...

Smart Grid: SoS "… interacting in unpredictable ways that regulators and investors cannot comprehend

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Summary: Similar to financial markets, system crashes are expected in smart grid, because they have been though to be just more...

Biomass Densification

Blogger Photo By Salman Zafar -   In a typical biomass pre-processing facility, feedstock arrives at the plant in chops or bales. The bales are cut more...
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5 Power Gen ERP Lessons from the Manufacturing Industry

By Bill Leedale
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software originated in the manufacturing space. And that means that some of the most advanced users, who have learned to milk as much value from ERP as possible, come from the more...
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Market Data -- A Point Of View on Data Delivery Process and Architecture

By Asish Thomas
A trading organization relies on commodity market data. A commodity trade is only as good as the Market Data it is based on. Incorrect or delayed commodity market prices/information lead to a lack of understanding more...
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No Coal, No Nukes, No Problem?

By Jason Willan
While the call for reduced dependence on coal-fired power plants and nuclear reactors to fuel the U.S. electricity grid is not a new concept, it is one that continues to grow louder. Renewable energy is more...
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The Power of Demand Elasticity in Unraveling Energy Investment Opportunities in the Dark World

By Kanya Williams
The firm and seemingly irrevocable conclusion of Professor Ferdinand Banks in his article "A New Lecture on Electric Deregulatory Failure" Energy Pulse October 24 2007 and repeated in his latest article "A Short but Disobliging more...
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Challenges with Distributed Assets

By Gopal Krishna
In Asset Intensive industries such as utilities /process and discrete manufacturing, challenges such as managing high value assets where each failure is costly and disruption in service often requires effective Asset Management program. At the more...
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