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  • Trilliant Partners with Energate for Demand Response Pilots

    Trilliant Networks, Inc. - May 13, 2008

    Trilliant chooses Energate’s home energy management solutions that balance the needs of the utilities with consumer empowerment, leading to better results OTTAWA, Canada (May 13, 2008) — Energate Inc. today announced that Trilliant Incorporated, an industry-leading provider of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) based on open standards, has been working with Energate, and its smart thermostat, on a number of Demand Response (DR) pilots that focus on the needs of both the utilities and consumers. In particular, Energate and Trilliant, in cooperation with other DR partners, have launched a unique 2008 pilot with E.ON US to measure how consumer-centric DR solutions can have a positive effect on energy usage.
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  • Power Restored after Washington Heights Transformer "Arched"

    May 11 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Douglas Carman Highlands Today, Sebring, Fla.

    Progress Energy restored power to 2,000 customers in Sebring two hours after a transformer malfunctioned Sunday afternoon.
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  • NPPD official: Media release warning of a shortage untrue

    May 12 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Adrian Sanchez Columbus Telegram, Neb.

    A national electric association's media release warning of skyrocketing bills and rolling blackouts across Nebraska within the next few years prompted a correction from the Nebraska Public Power District.
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  • 8,100 Alliant customers lose power

    May 12 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Jeff Raasch The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

    More than 8,100 Alliant Energy customers lost power early this morning after a component failed at a substation.
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  • AEP Dedicates New Transmission Operations Center

    COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

    American Electric Power today dedicated a new 83,500-square-foot facility in the Village of New Albany that houses the company's electricity transmission control operations.
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  • UNIFIN OFFERS FORZAIR™ AUXILLARY TRANSFORMER COOLERS

    Unifin International, LP - May 12, 2008

    Unifin, a world-leading supplier of cooling equipment and transformer oil pumps and valves to the Power Generation and Power Transformer industries, offers ForZair™ HeatSink auxiliary transformer cooler. The strong performance of this portable and highly efficient cooler allows increased overload and extends transformer life.
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  • PG&E Moves Huge Transformer

    May 10 - Appeal-Democrat

    Yuba-Sutter commuters may have arrived late to work Friday morning if they happened to get stuck behind a very large package being hauled by a Pacific Gas & Electric flatbed truck.
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  • FPL Tests Its Readiness for Storm Season with 'Hurricane Beta'

    JUNO BEACH, Fla., May 08, 2008 -- BUSINESS WIRE

    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.
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  • Alcoa-Yadkin Power Generating Division Upgrades to Telvent's OASyS DNA

    Telvent - May 8, 2008

    Telvent (Nasdaq: TLVT), the IT company for a sustainable and secure world, has been chosen to upgrade the control and monitoring system at Alcoa-Yadkin Power Generating Division with an OASyS DNA electric supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) solution. The Telvent system was selected to improve operational control of remote generation facilities and provide security of critical operating information.
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  • Commission To 'Demand' Underground Power Lines

    May 7 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Tony Marrero Hernando Today, Brooksville, Fla.

    County commissioners are drawing a line in the sand over power lines. The board voted unanimously Tuesday to "demand" that Progress Energy install any new transmission lines underground in existing utility corridors and "with the best available technology."
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