TEPCO AMI Initiative Taking Shape With Toshiba, Landis+Gyr
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has selected Toshiba Corp. to lead the utility's advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) initiative as the prime contractor and system integrator [...]
Minnesota House Passes Bill With Solar Carve-Out For Utilities
In a 70 to 63 vote Tuesday, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed an omnibus bill that would require the state's investor-owned utilities to procure [...]
IID, Abengoa Upgrading Transmission Grid To Accommodate Renewable Energy Integration
California-based utility Imperial Irrigation District (IID) has selected Abengoa to lead a new transmission project that includes upgrades to a 230 kV transmission line and [...]
Battery Energy Storage Backing Canadian Wind Power
The Wind Energy Institute of Canada is working with S&C Electric Canada Ltd. to add a grid-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) to its wind [...]
PacifiCorp Continues High-Voltage Transmission Grid Expansion
PacifiCorp says it has begun construction on a new high-voltage transmission line to serve customers throughout six western states. The 160-mile line will run from [...]
TransAlta, MidAmerican Form TAMA Transmission In Alberta
TransAlta Corp. and MidAmerican Transmission have partnered to form a new strategic partnership, TAMA Transmission. The new entity combines TransAlta's power-generation operating history in Alberta, [...]
R.I.P Kewaunee: Dominion Decommissions Nuclear Power Plant
Dominion has permanently shut down its 556 MW Kewaunee Power Station - a nuclear-generated electricity plant that has been in operation for almost four decades [...]
Grid-Scale Solution Stores Energy Underwater
The MaRS Cleantech Fund has completed a venture deal with Toronto-based energy storage firm Hydrostor, whose technology converts surplus electrical energy to underwater compressed air [...]
Schneider Electric's Wiser Smart Grid Application Gets Upgrades
Schneider Electric has announced new features and updates to its Wiser home management system, including new digital capabilities to its consumer and utility Web portals [...]
Annual Study Points To Consternation About Grid Reliability
Black & Veatch recently completed its seventh annual U.S. electric utility industry report, and a key takeaway from the study is that utility executives are [...]
Joule Assets Expanding Reach For Demand Response Services
Joule Assets Inc., a provider of energy market analytics, tools and financing, has opened a subsidiary in Amsterdam to better serve the growing European market [...]
Ventyx Smart Grid Tools Being Deployed In Ecuador
Ventyx, an ABB company, has signed deals valued at $6.5 million with the primary state-based organizations responsible for operating Ecuador's transmission grid, TRANSELECTRIC and the [...]
National Grid Using Opower Tool In Rhode Island
Opower, a provider of customer engagement solutions for the utility industry, says it is working with National Grid in Rhode Island to deliver its Home [...]
Minnesota Co-Op Utility Building On Its Advanced Metering Infrastructure
Survalent Technology has commissioned a SmartGateway system for Minnesota-based Crow Wing Power Cooperative, which serves 37,000 electric cooperative members in a three-county region. The new [...]
Wind Farm Upgrades Will Help Meet ERCOT Interconnection Mandate
Sweetwater Wind has awarded a $2.6 million contract to S&C Electric Co. for upgrades to parts of its 585 MW wind farm in Sweetwater, Texas. [...]
Southern California Edison Getting Smart Grid Insights With SAS
Inverstor-owned utility Southern California Edison (SCE) says it is now using SAS Analytics to help forecast critical operational information, such as short-term load and renewable [...]
Brand Reborn: A123 Energy Solutions
A123 Systems LLC says its businesses that are focused on batteries and energy storage solutions for power grid and related applications now fall under a [...]
Canadian Distribution Utility Rolling Out Smart Grid Devices
Energate Inc. says Canadian utility Newmarket-Tay Power Distribution is deploying Energate's Foundation smart thermostats and home energy gateway in customers' homes. These demand response and [...]
Governor Slaps Down Important Electric Utility Legislation
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has vetoed Senate Bill 9, a piece of legislation that, among other measures, would have quickened the deployment of advanced metering [...]
Toshiba Supplying Communication System For 27 Million Smart Meters
Toshiba Corp. has announced that it will work with Tokyo Electric Power Co. to create a communication system for the utility's smart meter rollout of [...]