November/December 2012
Issue 6 - December 2012

PowerPoints: Helping our Neighbours – It’s Human Nature

By Terry Wildman, Senior Editor

One of the best things about writing the editorial for the mag is the journey of discovery I often find myself on during the research and preparation phases.
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The Grid Transformation Forum: Envisioning the 21st Century Grid
How Customer Engagement Solutions can Revolutionize the Relationship between Utility and Consumer

By Norm Daigle, Executive Vice-President, Harris Utilities, SmartWorks

We are speaking with Norm Daigle, executive vice-president, Harris Utilities, SmartWorks
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Green Ovations: Innovations in Green Technologies
Three Areas Where Data Matters for Commercial Energy Efficiency

By Bennett Fisher, Retroficiency

Commercial energy efficiency is a growing area of focus as utilities seek ways to meet and exceed new efficiency targets, manage demand without increasing capacity and deliver added value to customers.
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Solving Power Problems in the Face of a Troubled Grid

By Terry Wildman, Editor-in-Chief interviews; Mark Cerasuolo, OutBack Power Technologies Inc.; and J.K. Thomas, Malankara Plantations Ltd.

Early on July 30 of this year, some 370 million people were dropped in the dark when an inter-connect substation near Agra, home of the Taj Mahal, tripped causing the automatic shutdown of all power plants in the Northern region.
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Managing Critical Power Transformer Assets

By Will Williams and Martin Jones, Black & Veatch; and Scott Anderson, Salt River Project

The current financial climate presents utility managers with a key challenge: the delivery of levels of service to customers at the most efficient balance of cost and risk.
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Tryvertising Opens Door for Adoption of E-Bills in the Utility industry

By Eric Leiserson, Fiserv

Over the course of the last decade, online electronic bill payment has found favor with many consumers, becoming a mainstream service in many segments, including the utilities industry.
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Envision 2030: Getting Ready for EV Evolution
Ideas for a Better Planet

By Jon Brock, Desert Sky Group LLC; and Dr. Russell Lefevre, IEEE Fellow

Getting Ready for EV Evolution The previous session ended with Dr. Lefevre outlining the technical challenges that have to be addressed to successfully provide and store power for EVs once the adoption is underway.
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The Renewable Energy Approval – Ontario’s ‘Streamlined’ Approval Process
The Bigger Picture

By Adam Chamberlain, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

This article is another in the series looking at the all-important Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) and its ramifications, from the legal standpoint that will impact energy producers and consumers well into this century.
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Power to the (security) people!
SECURITY SESSIONS

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

There was a television program in recent years that involved taking a group of people and firing questions at them round-robin until one person in the group was designated as “the weakest link” (and called that name by a shrill British woman who seemed to enjoy doing so).
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Guest Editorial: Securing Utilities from Cyberattacks
«For the times they are a-changin»

By Eric Byres, Tofino Security at Belden Inc.

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November/December 2012
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