July/August 2018
Issue 4 - August 2018

Power Points | Energy Partners Aim for Preparedness and Resiliency

By Elisabeth Monaghan

Energy Partners Aim for Preparedness and Resiliency As a number of articles in this issue of EET&D demonstrate, industry thought leaders are seeking best practices to bolster the power grid.
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The Grid Transformation Forum | Green Mountain Power: From Innovation to Grid Transformation

By Elisabeth Monaghan

Vermont-based Green Mountain serves 265,000 customers and is partnering with them on a new energy future that is cleaner, more reliable and cost-effective. GMP CEO Mary Powell answers our questions about GMP's innovative approach to grid transformation.
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From Research to Action | A Preview of EPRI's Electrification 2018 Conference & Exposition

By Rob Chapman

The need for economic and environmental improvements has never been more critical. Enter EPRI's Efficient Electrification Initiative – a research, development, and demonstration effort that explores the benefits and costs of increasing the share of end-use served by electricity. The embodiment of this initiative is EPRI's upcoming international conference.
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Green Ovations | Five Energy Predictions for 2018

By Perry Stoneman

As the global energy industry wrestles with two seemingly contradictory requirements, the need to innovate and the need to economize, it is bound to see significant shakeups and innovations over time. Against this backdrop, here are five trends that will shape the global energy and utility landscape in the remainder of 2018.
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Battery Storage and Pumped Storage Power: The Perfect Synergy

By Gabriel Hurtado and Sasaenia Paul Oluwabunmi

According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the global energy storage market will double six times between now and 2030. This equates to a start point of 5 GWh in 2016, to 300 GWh by 2030, with a total of US$103 billion invested in energy over that period. It is estimated that 70 percent of this capacity will be distributed across eight countries: the U.S., China, Japan, India, Germany, U.K., Australia and South Korea.
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Short-Circuiting the High Cost of Transformer Upgrades

By Alan Ober

Increase capacity! When the call comes from upper management to produce more energy, a plant manager faces the challenge of upgrading the infrastructure, and upgraded power transformers often represent the biggest ticket item.
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Real-Time Remote Monitoring of Sites and Assets – Part II

By Richard Harada and Edgar Sotter

In recent years, improvements in power consumption and communications in sensor technology not only has reduced the cost of asset monitoring but also allowed remote online data gathering, creating new horizons for condition monitoring systems for electrical substations.
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Discovering the Truth About C&I Power Reliability

By Jerry Yakel

Energy professionals are bombarded with thousands of "reliability" messages every day. To cut through the noise, a global provider of equipment and services for electric power systems reached out directly to those that purchase power – utility customers.
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Utilities Increasingly Concerned About Security Threats Need to Outthink the Enemy

By Richard Jones

The recently released 2018 BRIDGE Index™ Survey on Grid Security revealed that utility operations professionals across IT and OT rated the changing cybersecurity threat landscape as having the biggest impact on operations.
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Hospital Energy Use: Taking Advantage of Energy Efficiency

By Peter Fairbanks

With utility bills making up an average of 1.4 percent of a hospital's operating revenue, hospitals in the U.S spend about $8.3 billion total on energy costs each year. The impact of these energy costs on an individual hospital is huge.
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Weathering the Weather: The Benefits of Composite Utility Poles in Storm Zones

By Dan Coughlin

An average of 2.5 million of the roughly 130 million poles made from wood need to be replaced each year due to loss from age, rot, decay and, in the most high-impact instances, weather events.
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The Bigger Picture | Ferc Requires Greater Transparency Regarding RTO/ISO Uplift

By Glenn S. Benson

To at least begin addressing market participant concerns about uplift, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a new rulemaking (Order 844) on April 19, 2018.
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Security Sessions | More Dangerous Than Zero-Days: The N-Day Threat

By Ang Cui

"Zero-day" attacks may get a lot of attention in the press, but for electric utilities, the reality is that more "mundane" threats pose a far greater risk to their operations.
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