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Stop Wildfires Before They Start – For Less Than $10K

Sep 16, 2020 | Electric utilities, Featured, Grid monitoring

Every fire season brings new horrors and hardships for people living in dry or drought-prone areas. The summer of 2020, for example, bought apocalyptic fires raging in Oregon and California.

3 Reasons Point-to-Multipoint RF Networks Work for Utilities

Sep 7, 2020 | AMI deployments, Distribution Automation, Electric utilities, Featured, Renewable energy

Our century-old distribution system has aged remarkably well, but the centralized, top-down power system with electricity flowing in one direction is now outdated. A 2015 Department of Energy (DOE) report noted that 70% of power transformers were 25 years of age or...

8 Virtual Events You Need to Attend This Year

Aug 25, 2020 | Electric utilities, Featured, Gas utilities, Water utilities

When COVID-19 novel coronavirus put a hard stop to most in-person tradeshows and conferences this year, organizers quickly retooled many events as virtual.  Whether this change is long-standing or just a blip in event-planning history, only time will tell. While...

How to Modernize Your Distribution Network without Breaking a Sweat, or the Bank? Ask DTE Energy

Aug 11, 2020 | Distribution Automation, Electric utilities, Featured

  We often take it for granted that when we flick a switch or push a button, the lights will automatically turn on, phones will recharge and computers will power up. We also expect a continuous and reliable delivery of electricity to our homes and businesses. For...

5 Reasons RF Communications Networks Help Rural Electric Co-ops

Jul 14, 2020 | AMI deployments, Electric utilities, Featured

Implementing advanced metering infrastructure using wireless RF-based networks poses special challenges for rural electric cooperatives. Many cooperatives stretch across thousands of miles, with great distances between individual meters and groups of meters. This fact...

Can Smart Grid Sensors Solve Today’s Distribution Grid Monitoring Challenges?

May 28, 2020 | Data analytics, Electric utilities, Featured, Grid monitoring

Have you ever gotten stuck in traffic? You know there’s a problem, but you can’t see far enough ahead to know what it is or the best options for avoiding a three-hour delay. Electric distribution engineers face a similar problem. The decades-old substations and major...
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