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GridLines: The ‘Other’ Smart Grid

By Michael A. Marullo, Editor in Chief

As it turns out, there are actually TWO Smart Grids. The first is the one we all know about – the one where we force smart meters on everyone – and they really hate it and everything about it.
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The Grid Transformation Forum: Envisioning the 21st Century Grid
Progress Energy: Building on the present. Focusing on the future.

By Lee Mazzocchi, Vice President & Chief Procurement Officer (Progress Energy); Rob Caldwell, Vice President, Efficiency & Innovative Technology (Progress Energy); Michael Lewis, Senior Vice President, Energy Delivery (Progress Energy Florida)

Progress Energy: Building on the present. Focusing on the future.
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Green Ovations: Innovations in Green Technologies
Prepay Energy’s Pathway to Consumer Satisfaction and Benefits

By Cindy Boland O’Dwyer, Vice President, DEFG LLC

EcoAlign is a strategic marketing agency focused on energy and the environment. DEFG LLC is a specialized management consulting firm in the energy space.
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Integration Meets Main Street: City of Glendale Takes on the Smart Grid Challenge

By Edward Fraga, Director of Information Services, City of Glendale Water & Power John O. Wambaugh, Senior Vice President and Joe Tellez, VP of Smart Grid Integration Consulting, UISOL

Municipal utilities – or ‘Munis’ as they are often called – are the hometown power provider for more than two thousand communities across America.
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2012 IEEE Power & Energy Society Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition
Making Innovation Work for Tomorrow | Experience It!

Making Innovation Work for Tomorrow Experience It! Orlando, Florida May 7-10, 2012
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Scheduling and Dispatching Success at Lee County Electric Cooperative

By Donald King, Senior Supervisor for Electric Operations, Lee County Electric Cooperative

Linemen live for emergency repairs. Along with emergency work, they also love scheduled overtime – the kind of job where they have to replace, for example, a transformer at a large shopping center.
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Strategies for Building and Operating a Secure, Scalable and Reliable Smart Grid

By Ray Bariso, Head of Smart Grid Solutions, Telcordia

When the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) named 20 engineering achievements that had the greatest impact on quality of life in the 20th century, electrification ranked No. 1.
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Bluebonnet Unlocks the Potential of its Field Operations with Mobile Workforce Management Solution

By Ronnie Bludau, Operations Technology, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative

In 2010, Texas experienced one of the worst droughts in the state’s history, with very little rainfall and record high temperatures.
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Consumer Confidence at NV Energy

By Jeff Evans, Executive Consultant, Black & Veatch

Utilities across the nation are in various stages of implementing smart metering solutions.
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Keeping the Lights on for Communications Systems: The Need for Improved Network Monitoring

By Ashish Singh, Global Product Management, GridMaven

For nearly a century, U.S. utilities have routinely managed complex energy systems to deliver safe, reliable power. In contrast, utility communication networks have been simpler.
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Generation Investors Step Up to the Plate: What’s FERC Pitching?
The Bigger Picture

By Gregory K. Lawrence, Contributing Editor

Existing and planned electric generation faces important headwinds to profitability and financing given lower electri-city and capacity prices, a slow economy dip in demand, looming “big-ticket” capital expenditures such as environmental regulation compliance, and competition among generators based on fuel sources.
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Ahoy! Thar’ she blows!
SECURITY SESSIONS

By William T. (Tim) Shaw, PhD, CISSP / CIEH / CPT

Welcome to the latest installment of Security Sessions, a regular feature focused on security-related issues, policies and procedures. In prior columns I have discussed some of the various threats to our critical infrastructure automation systems and ways in which exploitable vulnerabilities can be eliminated or at least mitigated.
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Are Third-Party Energy Providers Changing the Consumer-Utility Relationship?

By Matt Dinsmore, Energy and CleanTech Practice Lead Altman Vilandrie & Company

If Smart Grid 1.0 was focused on installing the automated meter reading (AMI) infrastructure, Smart Grid 2.0 is supposed to be all about the products and services that are imagined, developed and marketed to consumers, changing the traditional relationship between utilities and their customers.
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