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	Big Hairy Audacious Goals for the Smart Grid 06/08/2010 at 09:26 AM \| Kate Rowland - Intelligent Utility Perspectives Blog This morning, I posted an article in Intelligent Utility Daily about an intriguing plenary session I attended late last month at ConnectivityWeek...

	Engaging the Customer 03/30/2010 at 05:22 PM \| Bill Opalka - Renewable EnergyBiz Daily Blog As the smart grid gets deployed, utility-customer relationships that have been relatively unchanged for decades are about to revolutionized. Providing...

	Pirates of Distributech 03/26/2010 at 07:54 AM \| Martin Rosenberg - From the Editor's Desk Blog Ahoy! Ye mates! The fair Energy Central Sloop moored this week in Tampa lagoon, hard upon the frigate convention center, where it was market day. Ass...

	Real Products + Real Economic Benefit = Smart Grid Winners 12/02/2009 at 05:14 PM \| Kate Rowland - Intelligent Utility Perspectives Blog In my last post, I discussed why venture capitalist Steve Westly says he’s so bullish on the smart grid space. Another speaker at the s...

	Transformers: Smart grid in disguise? 12/01/2009 at 07:09 PM \| H. Christine Richards - Intelligent Utility Blog Transformers. The term can mean two vastly different things, but I am here to argue that there are similarities between Transformers and transformers....

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	Highest Ranked Traffic Cities and Green Cures James Gowen \| 03/01/2013 at 01:05 PM Ever feel like rush hour traffic congestion is getting worse? Well, if you live in D.C. you are right. According to the Texas A&M Transport...

	DistribuTECH 2013 Review Eric Charette, P.E. \| 02/19/2013 at 09:37 AM A few weeks after the conference, I finally have a few minutes to reflect back on DistribuTECH 2013. This year the conference was ...

	How Telcos can help Smart Grid Chandan Agarwala \| 02/10/2013 at 08:10 AM Till now, we have seen telcos taking part in Smart Grid infrastructure as dormant stake-holders. They are offering to manage thermostats of applian...

	Mobility of Electric Utility Operations Eric Charette, P.E. \| 01/04/2013 at 09:27 AM Over the holiday break, I spent some time reflecting on 2012 and wondered what lies in store for distribution operations at North American electric...

	Process of Selecting an Outage Management System Eric Charette, P.E. \| 12/18/2012 at 02:56 PM And Then There Was Light Thomas Edison first patented a system for electricity distribution in the late 17thcentury. In 1882, the Edison ...

	Demands for Information During Outages Eric Charette, P.E. \| 12/04/2012 at 01:37 PM Recently we had a power outage at my office just before the lunch hour. The aging battery on my laptop no longer holds a charge, so quickly I...

	The Future of Outage Management Eric Charette, P.E. \| 11/29/2012 at 09:59 AM In recent years, there has been a question in the electric utility industry on the long term viability of outage management systems. Some exp...

	Measuring the Energy Reduction Impact of Select Broadband Activities Report and Webinar James Gowen \| 06/21/2012 at 08:17 AM The US alone could generate an annual net energy savings of about 336 million barrels of oil by conducting everyday tasks online instead. These fin...

	How Would you like Your Transformer Singing when It is Over loaded Alok Misra \| 06/08/2012 at 07:22 AM Well ;this is not a Joke! A project is under way here in India under my direction which will make transformer sing a song which is coded giving...

	Offshore energy sources and climate challenge – Part 1 – Destruction Factor and Availability Factor Chavdar Azarov \| 05/21/2012 at 06:00 AM In regard of accelerating climate change and anomalies the offshore power industry may have to re-estimate its performance and global re...

	Facilities Engineer App on Android / Apple Darin Jones \| 03/31/2012 at 03:55 PM The FE App/Facilities Engineer app is something that I have created to help busy engineers that have 1000 things going on. I am a Facilities Engine...

	Telecom and Utilities Converge in Areas of Smart Grid Chris Lewis \| 03/13/2012 at 01:55 PM By: Juliet Shavit, President and CEO of SmartMark Communications, LLC Over the last decade, the telecommunications industry has unde...

	DistribuTECH – An Ecosystem of Innovation Jay Cappy \| 01/24/2012 at 03:23 PM This is what DistribuTECH is all about. The convention helps provide the showcase for the innovation that is needed to support the changes th...

	DistribuTECH and the Ninety-Seven Percent Ernie Hayden \| 01/24/2012 at 02:52 PM As DistribuTECH gets underway this year in San Antonio, the focus will be on the lower voltage systems all our homes and businesses rely upon. ...

	Noveda Technologies Honored by Cleantech Group for Reach and Innovation in Energy Monitoring Mostafa Razzak \| 01/13/2012 at 09:45 AM Noveda Technologies (“Noveda”), the leader in web-based, real-time energy and water monitoring, announced today that it has ...

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