July 1, 2008
Global Viewpoint
Surpassing the Masters
A young engineer in one of the classes asked me if there was a simplified, straightforward book explaining the technologies that make up the transmission...
Features
ComEd Brings 345 kV Downtown
Chicago Continues to Live Up to the Century-Old Advice of Early City Planner Daniel Burnham: Make No Small Plans. However, unlike some of the city's more...
Hawaiian Electric Links in OMS
How Does a Medium-Sized Electric Utility Move from Legacy to Vendor-Developed mission-critical applications at an affordable price? Hawaiian Electric...
Ameren Warms Up to Cold-Shrink Terminations
Transitions From Overhead to Underground Construction require a considerable amount of time for cable terminations. Ameren Corp. (St. Louis, Missouri,...
Entergy Stabilizes Voltage with D-VAR
Located on a Bluff Overlooking One of the Widest Bends of the Mississippi River, Natchez is one of Mississippi's oldest cities. With its bustling tourism,...
Himalayas Challenge 400-kV Installation
The Power System in India has a Huge Shortage of Energy. The margin between demand and supply is increasing as the annual growth in demand continues to...
PG&E Puts Underground Enclosures to the Test
Belowground Enclosures that House Electric or Gas Facilities are Critical to the safety of third parties, often pedestrians, as well as the protection...
CIGR Stages 42nd Biennial Session
CIGR's 42nd General Session is an International Conference on Large High-Voltage Electric Systems that provides a unique permanent forum for delegates...
Business Developments
AMI Technology Leverages Prepay Program
SmartSynch Inc. (Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.) and Exceleron Software Inc. (Dallas, Texas, U.S.) have teamed up to create an integrated platform that enables...
AWG Reduces Wire and Cable Costs
American Wire Group Inc. (AWG; www.buyawg.com) has created the AWG Best Alternative to Negotiated Agreements (BANA) Consortium, a service for electric...
Circuit Breaker Test & Maintenance Training Conference Oct. 6-10, 2008 ~ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Finepoint's 15th Annual Circuit Breaker Test & Maintenance Conference is an opportunity to join peers for practical training in the latest problem-solving...
Shaw EDS to Divest T&D Business to Pike Electric
Pike Electric Inc., a subsidiary of Pike Electric Corp. (Mount Airy, North Carolina, U.S.), is acquiring substantially all of the assets of Shaw Energy...
Technology Updates
KCP&L Uses Mobile Tool to Streamline Workflows and Increase Productivity
Kansas City Power & Light (KCP Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) is expanding its suite of Intergraph (Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.) field automation tools with...
TXU Energy Launches ZigBee-Enabled Demand-Response Program over Internet
TXU Energy, through a partnership that includes Comverge (East Hanover, New Jersey, U.S.) and Digi International (Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.), is launching...
OSI Awarded Joint Contract by Alaska Utilities for EMS
Chugach Electric Association Inc. and Anchorage Municipal Light & Power (ML&P) of Anchorage, Alaska, U.S., have awarded Open Systems International Inc....
Offshore Wind Farm off Suffolk Coast to Power 415,000 Homes
Greater Gabbard Offshore Winds Ltd. (Surrey, England) was established as a joint-venture partnership between Airtricity and Fluor to develop what will...
Quarterly Report
Demand Response and Reliability
Renewable Resources, Especially Variable Generation, Require a Dancing Partner, a resource that can complement increasing penetration of wind and solar,...
Characters with Character
Globetrotter
Cheryl Warren Works Hard. Vice president of asset strategy and investment planning for National Grid, Albany, New York, U.S., Warren also serves as secretary...
Products and Services
PRODUCTS & Services
Data Center UPS Eaton Corp. offers a new and extended power rating for its Powerware 9395 uninterruptible power system (UPS). The new 825-kVA UPS provides...
Straight Talk
Are You Ready for Smart Grid?
When the New Seven Wonders of the World were Announced, maybe they should have included advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) along with the likes of...
Electric Utility Operations
David Sparks
Born in Gainesville, Florida. Married for 24 years to his wife, Shian, who also works for Gainesville Regional Utilities. Working on his 80-acre farm...
Transformer Package Saves Installation Time
Linemen for North West Rural Electric Cooperative (REC) of Orange City, Iowa, no longer spend hours installing voltage transformers (VTs) on a utility...
Substation Rebuild From the Ground Up
A level 3 tornado wiped out the only substation in Dumas, Arkansas. The disaster severely tested Entergy's construction division capabilities and presented...
TVA Linemen Install Poles in Hard-to-Reach Areas
Back in the 1920s, linemen trekked into the North Carolina mountains by mule to construct a transmission line. Eighty years later, rust was corroding...
