July/August 2014
Issue 4 - August 2014

PowerPoints: Smart Harvesting

By Terry Wildman, Editor-in-Chief

By the time you read this column, I will have already spent ten days tent camping at Algonquin Park in Central Ontario with my son and 13-year-old grandson.
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The Grid Transformation Forum: Selecting an Online Substation Inspection System

By Dr. Nand Singh, Founder of MinMax Technologies; and Doug Evans, Electrical Engineer, Texas City of Weatherford

We are in discussion with Dr. Nand Singh the founder of MinMax Technologies a Texas-based software company delivering software-based productivity tools for substation operations for utilities with two or more substations.
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Green Ovations: Green Button Implementation Gains Momentum

By Patrick Gannon

Two big announcements in recent weeks highlight the increased acceptance and implementation of Green Button across the energy sector.
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From Research to Action: Data Analytics and the ‘Little Data' Challenge

By Matt Wakefield, Director, EPRI and Thomas O'Brien, Vice President – Information & Technology Services, PJM Interconnection

According to INSIGHTSQUARED's infographic on data quality, poor data and lack of visibility into data quality is the No. 1 reason for project cost overruns, and the cost of ‘dirty' data for US businesses exceeds $600 billion dollars annually.
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Natural Ester Fluids: Flowing Into the Mainstream

By David S. Roesser, PhD

Once viewed as a nice, niche product for applications where environmental safety was at a premium, a recent trend reveals more and more power companies turning to natural ester fluids as a transformer coolant and insulator that delivers the operating efficiencies they need to stay competitive.
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Operations maturity: Smart management of smart grids
Your smart grid network offers immense value – if you have the operations maturity to make the most of it

By Kai Hui

As a longtime utility ‘insider,' I know first-hand the trials and tribulations of deploying and managing a smart grid. Now, with the added perspective of being a technology provider to the industry, I can share my experiences and lessons learned.
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Managing a Mobile Workforce with Virtualization

By Michael Murphy

According to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), Canada's oil & gas industry supports 550,000 jobs nationwide, and the oil sands alone are forecasted to create 905,000 new jobs by 2035.
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The Apple-ization of Smart Submeters
What meter manufacturers have learnt from pervasive consumer technology and how it could benefit your business

By Richard Morgan

One of the quickest ways to raise the eyebrows of today's smart-phone wielding generation is to show them a picture of earliest cell phones from the 1980s.
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How Utilities Can Protect the Grid against Potential Outages Due to Extreme Weather Events

By Dave Bryant

Over the past few decades, changes in weather patterns due to climate change or global warming have led to more extreme, frequent, and costly weather events that have included intense rains, ice storms, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, and wildfires.
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The Bigger Picture: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution and Electrical Protective Equipment Final Rule

By Allen Hajian

Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) recent revision of the standard for electric power generation and distribution and associated construction will improve workplace safety and health for workers involved in construction and maintenance of all facets of power distribution, including electric power generation, transmission and distribution.
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Security Sessions: Smart Grid: The Showdown at Credibility, Privacy and Security Gap

By Siobhan MacDermott, CISO, Utilidata

Smart meters are the devices at which individual electric power consumers will interact with utility suppliers on the proposed American smart grid.
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Guest Editorial: Latest Auto DR Platform Empowers Customers

By Robert Nawy and Jason MacDonald

The new, highly-secure automated Demand Response (DR) platform, OpenADR 2.0b, opens up the next generation of markets for DR and energy market program participants.
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Guest Editorial 2: Advancing Work Rules in the National Electrical Safety Code ®

By Jim Tomaseski, IEEE, NESC® Main Committee

Since the earliest installation of electical power lines, the need to develop comprehensive construction and maintenance work rules was recognized as essential to ensuring lineman safety.
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