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Washington
Public Energy Utility Awards New SCADA Contract to OSI
Open Systems International, Inc. has been awarded a
contract by Cowlitz PUD (Public Utility District No. 1) of Washington,
for a comprehensive new Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system.
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Highlights
Progress
Energy to Extend FiServ's eBill Distribution to Florida
Progress Energy is extending the use of FiServ's eBill
Distribution to the electric utility's Florida region.
U.K.'s
Department of Energy Selects Accenture for Support on Smart Grid Roll
Out
Accenture has been selected by the UK’s Department of
Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to provide strategic consulting on the
planning and implementation of smart grids in the U.K.
Big
Rivers Electric Selects HP to Enable Future Growth and Stabilize
Costs
HP has announced Big Rivers Electric Corp., a
Kentucky-based electric generation and transmission utility, signed a
$27 million, eight-year technology and applications services agreement
designed to help stabilize technology costs and enable future growth
with a standardized enterprise resource planning (ERP) and workplace
computing environment.
OPOWER
Unveils New Energy Efficiency Program with Seattle City Light
Seattle City Light, the nation’s ninth largest public
electric utility, has launched a new energy efficiency program based on
the OPOWER Home Energy Report.
German
Utility Selects Syclo Mobile Solution to be Implemented by
ENERGY4U
RheinEnergie, a German utility serving 2.5 million
people in the Rhine region, has selected SMART Work Manager for use with
the SAP ERP application, a mobile application from Syclo.
Northwest
Iowa Power Cooperative Chooses Matrox Solutions to Monitor Power
Grid
Northwest Iowa Power Cooperative has selected Matrox
Extio F1400 Remote Graphics Units (RGU) to distance the control room
workstations from its operator dispatching center.
Jacada
Signs Material Agreement with Large Public Gas & Electric Utility
Provider
Jacada Ltd. has signed a material agreement with a new
customer, a large gas and electric utility provider in the United
States.
Hydro
One Networks to Use Powerline Repeater from Cooper, Trilliant
Trilliant Inc. and Cooper Power Systems have announced
the deployment of a jointly developed product, the SecureMesh Powerline
Repeater, that enhances Smart Grid coverage at Hydro One in Ontario,
Canada.
Telvent
to Implement Smart Grid Solution for the Guizhou Power Grid in
China
Telvent has been awarded a new project by Guizhou Power
in China to improve the management of its electric distribution network.
Unitil
Selects ABB Network Manager DMS
ABB has received an order from Unitil Corp. for its ABB
Network Manager DMS. Unitil, an investor-owned public utility holding
company headquartered in Hampton, New Hampshire, will deploy Network
Manager DMS at its affiliates, Utility Energy Systems and Fitchburg Gas
and Electric Light Co.
German
Company Commission Siemens for Smart Metering System
Siemens Energy will provide a comprehensive smart
metering solution to support Berlin-based Umetriq Entwicklungs-GmbH in
building the IT infrastructure of a metering services provider and meter
point operator for the German energy market.
Tanzania
Electric Supply Company Orders SCADA/EMS System
AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution division will
deliver and implement a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
Electricity Management System, or SCADA/EMS, to Tanzania Electric Supply
Co. Ltd. - TANESCO, the company responsible for the generation,
transmission, distribution and sale of electricity in Tanzania.
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On-Line
Monitoring Averts Imminent Bushing Failure
ITC Holdings reaps reliability rewards using continuous
monitoring and intelligent diagnostics...
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Focuses on End-to-End Information Flows
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Vendor Updates
Systems
With Intelligence Inc. Completes $2.0 Million Private Equity
Financing
Systems With Intelligence Inc., a supplier of
intelligent video surveillance solutions for the protection of critical
infrastructure within the electric utility industry, has completed a
$2.0 million private equity financing round.
Aclara,
Firetide Introduce Wireless, Mesh-Based Wide-Area Network
ESCO Technologies Inc. has acquired a minority interest
in Firetide Inc., a provider of wireless infrastructure mesh networks,
and through its Aclara RF Systems Inc. subsidiary, has entered into a
strategic alliance agreement with Firetide.
Arcadian
Networks Simplifies WAN/LAN Management For Utility Smart Grid
Communications
Utility communications networks have a new tool for
managing the intrinsically complex interconnection of applications,
devices, and software in the AE11g SMART Grid Gateway Series from
Arcadian Networks.
Siemens
and Landis+Gyr to Cooperate on Smart Metering Common Standards for
Interoperability in Smart Grids
Siemens and Landis+Gyr have agreed to cooperate on
common standards that will not only establish interoperability but will
also give utilities the requisite security for their investments in
smart grids.
eMeter
SmartStart Software Sets up Consumer Engagement Quickly
eMeter Corp. has debuted SmartStart, a streamlined
offering to get utilities’ meter-to-cash and consumer engagement
functions up and running in as little as 12 weeks.
SAIC
Forms Strategic Alliance with BPL Global, Ltd.
Science Applications International Corp. has formed a
strategic alliance with BPL Global, Ltd., a smart grid technology
company that develops and deploys solutions to improve the efficiency
and reliability of utility networks.
Ambient,
Itron Collaborate to Provide Automatic Near-Real Time Legacy Meter
Reads
Ambient Corp. and Itron Inc. have announced development
of the Ambient EDC module.
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