Building a smarter grid is difficult. It is never an easy undertaking when a utility, large or small, is faced with making major investment decisions, especially when they can represent a similar ...

Manitoba Hydro released today (Nov 20) its 2024-25 Sustainability Report, entitled Energy for Life: Delivering the Energy That Brings Us Together.The report shares with Manitobans how the Crown. . .

Remote monitoring of substation equipment is used to take advantage of present information technology to reduce operating costs while loading that equipment closer to nameplate ratings and deferring ...

Tucson Electric Power Company (TEP), Tucson, Arizona, is the principal subsidiary of UniSource Energy (publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol UNS). The company serves more than 400,000 power ...

More than ever, utilities are focusing on distribution system reliability, including outage management and the utility’s responsiveness during outage situations. As utilities plan for deployment of ...

In recent years the number of cyberattacks directed at energy installations, including power utilities has increased dramatically. I discussed this in my article ‘Securing Utilities from Cyberattacks ...

Many utilities are rolling out Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and are committing millions and collectively billions of dollars to do so. The challenge for utilities is not whether to roll out ...

According to physicist Albert Einstein "if you cannot explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." When it comes to visualizing new transmission power facilities to support vital capacity ...

The many benefits of distribution automation (DA) - visibility, fault detection and isolation, energy efficiency, and asset management - are creating a “second wave” of smart grid investments and ...

Digital energy is the free flow of real-time information exchanged between energy suppliers and consumers. It will transform everyone it touches in the fuel, electricity, and gas business. The process ...

One of the key characteristics of the much-discussed Smart Grid refers to electric power systems that enhance grid reliability and efficiency by automatically anticipating and responding to system ...

Energy storage technologies are fundamental if the decarbonisation and the transition to a new energy mix are to succeed. Two different technologies offer a feasible solution for the required demand ...