It's a beautiful day in your service area, and your distribution operations control center has few to no outages for operations to deal with; everything at your utility is status quo. Tomorrow, ...

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, healthcare is one of the top five energy-consuming building categories and accounts for nine percent of energy use in commercial buildings. With utility ...

There is a shortage of high-voltage transmission lines in the United States, and demand is expected to grow at least 20 percent in the next decade. Yet selection of transmission line routes is a ...

Aging infrastructure is a well-recognized challenge across our nation’s energy system with investor-owned utilities spending a record of $19.5 billion in electric transmission infrastructure last year ...

As utilities have deployed more and more network analysis applications such as the state estimation and contingency analysis functions of energy management systems, the steady state and transient ...

Batteries are among the least expensive pieces of equipment in a substation, and they are the heart that keeps the protection and control system running. Despite this, they are often not maintained ...

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 the mid-1990s, North American electric utilities enthusiastically embraced the concept of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). At the time, software vendors presented CRM as a package of IT ...

According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), wind energy development in the United States is expected to grow at a remarkable 25 percent in 2003. Driven by local incentives and the ...