March/April 2013
Issue 2 - February 2013

PowerPoints: The Place was Electric

By Terry Wildman, Editor-in-Chief

I have recently returned from DistribuTECH 2013 in San Diego and I have to say, the depth and breadth of the intellect and levels of achievement on that show floor were absolutely electric.
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The Grid Transformation Forum: Envisioning the 21st Century Grid
How Communications Can Enable More Reliable and Efficient Electricity Distribution

By Rob Pilgrim, VP Business Development, ABB Tropos Wireless Communication Systems

We are speaking with Rob Pilgrim, VP Business Development at ABB Tropos Wireless Communication Systems
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Green Ovations: Innovations in Green Technologies
Energize Your Conservation and Energy Efficiency Measures with Submeters

By Dave Bovankovich, VP Engineering

Since their introduction to the market in the 1980s, submeters have dramatically evolved in terms of functionality and usefulness, and have proven themselves valuable ‘front-line' energy data gathering tools in an era of rising utility costs and tightening budgets.
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Advancing Customer Relationships with Advanced Metering
DNV KEMA and Glendale Water & Power's Smart Grid Grant

By Terry McDonald, PMP – Executive Consultant, DNV KEMA

The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) issued a broad range of grants totaling $787 billion. The money was to save and create jobs, and increase investments in infrastructure, including smart grids and ‘green' energy.
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Standby Power System at Florida VA Hospital Covers All Electrical Loads

By Ben McKelway, Norris & Company

Few if any hospitals have a better power system than the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital in Tampa, Florida, thanks to its recently renovated power plant.
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PART II – What the Future Looks Like: Bulk System Reliability Assessment and the Smart Grid
Insights and Recommendations from Exploratory Workshops on Evaluating Potential Reliability Impacts of Smart Grid Deployments

By Jason Taylor, Senior Project Engineer/Scientist, EPRI

Part I (Electric Energy T&D January/February 2013) looked at R&D challenges, exploratory workshop purpose, reliability assessment concerns and gaps, and reliability and performance indices.
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The Bigger Picture : A Lean, Green Fighting Machine?
Part 2: Competing Objectives in the Army's Renewables Initiative

By Maura Goldstein, Baker Botts L.L.P

As explored in Part I of this Article (Electric Energy T&D January/February Issue 1 - Volume 17), over the past two years, the United States Army (“Army”) has established a dedicated Energy Initiatives Office Task Force (“EITF”), and kicked off a novel procurement program (the “Army Renewables RFP”) for a proposed $7 billion in power purchase agreements intended to stimulate private investment in the build-out of greenfield renewable power projects at Army bases across the continental U.S.
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What's a nice guy like you doing in my computer?
SECURITY SESSIONS

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

As I reviewed the recent Presidential directive on cyber security I was pondering the evolving cyber threats to our national infrastructure and institutions from both domestic and international sources.
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Guest Editorial: Active and Passive Customers in a World with Flexible Electricity Demand
Technical advances and the role of responsive devices in supporting our electricity grid

By Scott Coe and Shangyou Hao, Utility Integration Solutions, Inc. (UISOL)

The term ‘Smart Grid' has been used over the past decade to include a number of disparate ideas related to making the electricity grid more reliable, more economic, or more environmentally friendly.
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