As utility companies begin to jump on the bandwagon of nuclear’s re-emergence, American Electric Power is using a very different approach. Mike Heyeck tells Power and Energy how nuclear’s previous mistakes became the backbone of American Electric Power’s safety program.
By OSIsoft. A new approach to managing the electric grid has started to change completely the way that power is generated and used. The vast quantities of data and information generated by the emerging ‘smart grid’ will require major changes in the architecture and philosophy of traditional monitoring and control systems used by utilities.
The Challenges of Aligning IT with the Energy Business: The Smart Grid won’t ever happen unless IT and business units work tightly together to achieve common goals and fully understand each other's needs and limitations. By Wyndham Sellers, TeamQuest Corporation
A consortium of Smart Grid solutions vendors – representing every major facet of the distribution grid – has partnered with Xcel Energy to design and implement its vision of a fully connected and horizontally integrated system that identifies all aspects of the power grid and communicates its status and the impact of consumption decisions.
A White Paper by Chris Thomas and Bruce Hamilton, ADICA, LLC. The global electric utility industry and its customers are faced with a set of challenges which are unparalleled since the advent of widespread electrification. Challenges including the increased likelihood of a carbon constrained future, significant requirements for new infrastructure investment, and increasing energy prices are converging to drive fundamental change in the way that energy is produced, delivered and used.