Dec 4, 2019 | AMI deployments, Electric utilities, Featured
In a survey taken this past Earth Day, Researchers at the Pew Research Center found that a majority of people in 23 out of 26 countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center consider climate change a grave threat. With this week marking the start of the 25th United...
Nov 13, 2019 | Featured, Power quality
When the Silver Dollar City amusement park in Branson, MO installed the Outlaw Run, one of the world’s steepest wood roller coasters, the loads caused by the ride tested the capacitor bank that ensured stable power quality to the park. In the past, the oil-filled...
Oct 16, 2019 | Electric utilities, Grid monitoring
Two innovation programs funded by the UK’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) — the Network Innovation Allowance (NIA) and Low Carbon Networks Fund – are critical in that they support technology programs that help utilities improve their financial...
Oct 9, 2019 | AclaraConnect, Electric utilities
The century-old business model of electric utilities today now must accommodate new technologies such as distributed energy resources and electric vehicles (EVs). More than 90 percent of respondents to the 2019 Utility Dive State of the Electric Utility survey, for...
Sep 17, 2019 | AMI deployments, Electric utilities, Gas utilities
If you can say one thing about the United Kingdom’s smart metering program, it’s this: There’s no shortage of commitment. In fact, that seems to be a key difference between regulators in the U.K. and many of their counterparts in the U.S. Last November, Utility Dive...
Jul 29, 2019 | Electric utilities, Substation infrastructure protection
Over decades, utilities have made huge investments in time-division multiplexing (TDM) infrastructures that use circuit switching to communicate with protective relaying and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that protect substations and the...
