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Highlights
Duke
Energy Partners with Cisco to Fast-Track Development of Utility's 'Smart
Grid'
Duke Energy will join forces with Cisco Systems Inc. to
fast-track development of Duke Energy's state-of-the-art electric "smart
grid."
Nighthawk
Systems Receives Initial Order from Inland Power and Light
Nighthawk Systems, Inc. has received an initial order
for 500 of its CEO700 wireless disconnect units from Inland Power and
Light Co. of Spokane, Washington.
NRG
Selects OSI for SCADA/EMS Expansion
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been selected
by NRG Energy (NRG), a New Jersey company with a portfolio of projects
in North America, Europe and Australia, as the supplier of its
automation systems for Generation Management and Energy Management
across NRG’s Eastern Interconnection Regions.
Australia's
CitiPower and Powercor Select Silver Spring Networks for Major Advanced
Metering Infrastructure Rollout
Silver Spring Networks has been selected by electrical
distributors CitiPower and Powercor Australia to provide the network to
support the rollout of a government-mandated Advanced Metering
Infrastructure (AMI) program.
PJM,
AREVA Form Strategic Alliance
AREVA’s Transmission & Distribution (T&D) and PJM
Interconnection have formed a strategic alliance to better address the
challenges related to “smarter” transmission grids in the
northeastern United States.
American
Electric Power Chooses DataDirect Technologies for Mainframe SOA
Enablement
American Electric Power has deployed the DataDirect
Shadow product to provide mainframe Web services for SOA enablement of
its mainframe-based customer information system.
Hometown
Connections Selects GridPoint as Smart Grid Software Platform
Provider
Hometown Connections, a utility services subsidiary of
the American Public Power Association (APPA), has selected GridPoint as
its exclusive smart grid software platform provider.
PECO
Contracts with Enspiria Solutions to Evaluate Smart Meter
Technologies
Enspiria Solutions has been selected by PECO to support
the utility in looking at smart meter technologies.
E.ON
Mitte AG Standardizes its Infrastructure Based on Intergraph
Technology
E.ON Mitte AG, Kassel, a Germany-based electric, gas and
water utility, is the latest E.ON unit to standardize on Intergraph
technology for more efficient infrastructure management.
Tillamook
PUD Implements Telvent's ELA-SU Program
Tillamook People’s Utility District in Oregon is one
of the first utilities to implement Telvent’s Enterprise License
Agreement for Small Utilities (ELA-SU) program.
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In Depth
Enspiria
Solutions Joins Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition
The Demand Response and Smart Grid (DRSG) coalition has
added Enspiria Solutions (www.enspiria.com) to its membership
of more than 30 companies...
PGE
Takes Smart Meter Installation Territorywide
Portland General Electric Co. (Portland, Oregon, U.S.)
will begin rolling out more than 800,000 smart meters across its
4000-sq-mile (10,360-sq-km) service area...
Vendor Updates
UISOL
and AREVA Announce Smarter Grids Alliance
Utility Integration Solutions and AREVA’s Transmission
and Distribution (T&D) division have formed a strategic global alliance
working closely on developing and marketing Smarter Grids technology for
utilities.
Intergraph
Advances Enterprise Geospatial Product Lines
Intergraph has enhanced its widely adopted, open
geospatial technology portfolio to further extend the value and exchange
of spatial data across the enterprise.
Oracle
Extends Capabilities of Identity Manager
To help enterprises significantly improve compliance and
reduce potential for fraud, Oracle has announced enhanced capabilities
for its Identity Manager.
Avaya
and IBM Expand Relationship
Avaya and IBM have expanded their alliance to deliver
unified communications solutions backed by newly Avaya-certified
security products for enterprise clients and government organizations,
worldwide.
Novell
Program Integrates Identities Across SAP and Non-SAP
Environments
Novell has announced its Compliance Management Platform
extension for SAP environments, a cost-effective solution for managing
access and security challenges across both SAP solutions and non-SAP
systems.
Aclara
Joins Wi-Fi Alliance
Aclara is the newest member of the Wi-Fi Alliance, a
global, non-profit association devoted to the proliferation of
interoperable Wi-Fi technology across devices and market segments.
CURRENT,
Qwest to Integrate DSL into Smart Grid
CURRENT Group, LLC and Qwest Communications
International Inc. have announced a new framework that allows electric
utilities to integrate intelligent grid sensing with Qwest’s existing
low latency, secure, high capacity DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) network
to implement a Smart Grid.
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