Friday, May 9, 2008
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Asset Management
Covers strategies, processes and information technologies for managing utility assets, both T&D and generation.
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Billing & Bill Payment
Covers the bill to payment process at utilities.
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Customer Care & Business Operations
Covers the processes and systems to enable world-class customer care in an energy utility environment, including CIS, CRM and Call Centers.
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Generation Technologies
Covers technologies integral to the analysis and control of generation of power.
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Metering, AMR & Data Management
Covers management of metering and associated data.
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Mobile Work Force Management
Covers the management of a mobile work force in the utility environment.
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T&D Automation
Covers the technology and software systems that automatically monitor report and control the flow of power from generation through end-use.
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Wind Power
Covers technologies and processes used to generate electirc power from wind.
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Harry Stephens, President and CEO, DATAMATX
If your organization is like most other industries today, it is experiencing rising operating costs. Most utilities are studying budgets more closely, looking for items that need trimming, or ones that can be eliminated altogether. One area to consider evaluating is the cost for printing and mailing monthly statements.
Rik Drummond, CEO and Chief Scientist, Drummond Group Inc.
The software purchasing community requires interoperable products in their networks, value and supply chains that install easily to begin intercommunicating with other like products in a straight forward manner. This frequently is not the case even with products that call themselves interoperable, and this may costs the organization hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional IT expense.
Kim Gaddy, Product Manager, Alliance Data Systems Inc.
Today's advances in analytic methods, data availability, and technology allow use of data in ways that could only be dreamed about years ago. Data-driven decision making has become essential to companies wishing to optimize business practices or cater their solutions to a more targeted audience.
Bill Opalka, Editor-in-Chief, Topic Centers, Energy Central
A national Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) once again failed in the U.S. Congress late last year when it was removed from a comprehensive energy bill that passed at the end of the session. The House of Representatives had passed its version of the energy bill that included a requirement for most U.S. utilities to acquire 15% of their energy from sources like wind and solar energy.
Mark Hatfield, Principal Consultant, Enspiria Solutions
All of the major MDMS vendors can calculate billing determinants and do validation, estimation and editing (VEE). Yet, as utilities are expanding AMI business cases beyond just reading meters and TOU rates, they expect more functionality out of the MDMS they will select.
Hoan Le, Consulting Engineer, ABB Inc.
Instrument transformers are designed to transform voltage or current from the high values in the transmission and distribution systems to the low values that can be utilized by low voltage devices.
Don Kopecky, Senior Supervising Engineer, WorleyParsons
There is much talk recently about the extent to which we can replace our dependence on fossil fuels with energy derived from renewable resources. While renewable energy holds great promise, there are some limitations to renewable forms of energy (as there are with anything) which are very widely proclaimed and generally used as "proof" that they can never solve all our problems.
Typically, utilities use a mix of communications technologies to send real-time information about the status of equipment such as transformers in substations and other devices throughout a transmission and distribution system back to a central command center.
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San Diego, CA
Sunday May 11, 2008 - Friday May 16, 2008
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Orlando, FL - USA
Sunday May 11, 2008 - Thursday May 15, 2008
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Cincinnati, OH - USA
Monday May 12, 2008 - Friday May 16, 2008
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Dallas, TX - USA
Monday May 12, 2008 - Friday May 16, 2008
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Denver, CO - USA
Monday May 12, 2008 - Wednesday May 14, 2008
Energy and Generation Planning has become significantly more complex than ever before. Driven by a combination of legislation and regulatory initiatives, as well as by economic and environmental trends, utility energy and generation planning must now incorporate not only such staples as predicted fuel costs and forecasted load, but also the impacts of new factors, including energy efficiency initiatives, demand response programs, renewable portfolio standards, pollution mitigation costs, the potential of not-completely-mature generation technologies such as IGCC, the uncertainties of future greenhouse gas regulation and more. The business plans of non-utility players in the power industry must address the same issues.
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05/08/2008 at 12:46 PM | James Warner - Who Invented AC Electricity? Blog
Well I will start out with how many people know who created AC electricity and made it available to the USA? Hint: He also proposed free energy to the
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05/08/2008 at 12:20 PM | Thomas Casten - http://www.energyblogs.com/undergroundwires Blog
Commission To 'Demand' Underground Power Lines - County commissioners are drawing a line in the sand over power lines. The board voted unanimously Tue
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05/06/2008 at 07:41 PM | Eric Heldt - Testing & SCADA Blog
it’s hard for a lot of testers to avoid constantly thinking of ways to improve and refine different operations and processes. Most testers I kno
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The developer of a power plant proposed for North Billerica wants to purchase 40 million gallons of water from the Concord River each year to control pollution and cool the plant's turbines.
May 8 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Jennifer Myers The Sun, Lowell, Mass.
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Iberdrola Renewables has commissioned new wind farms in Germany and Greece, strengthening its European presence and bringing it nearer its objective of installing an additional 2,000MW in 2008.
May 08 - Datamonitor
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David Leathers, general manager of the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities, said the cost of electricity will continue to rise -- regardless of whether the much-debated clean-coal power plant is built.
May 07 - Buffalo News
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It's been almost two and half years since Hurricane Wilma made landfall, the last of seven storms to hit Florida Power & Light Company's service territory in a 15 month period. Yet every year the company prepares for storm season as if the next Wilma could arrive tomorrow.
JUNO BEACH, Fla., May 08, 2008 -- BUSINESS WIRE
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Avista has acquired the rights to develop a 50-megawatt (MW) wind farm near Reardan, Wash. taking an important step in implementing the company's 2007 Electric Integrated Resource Plan (IRP).
SPOKANE, Wash., May 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
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