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Eliminating Obstacles and Delivering the Benefits of the Smart Grid - IBM's Optimized Energy Value Chain (OEVC) Sep 14 2010 - 2010-01-01 12:00:00 - Your City The convergence of power and information technologies in the smart grid has created opportunities for finer grained and broader controls of energy flows. These opportunities can improve electric service in multiple dimensions: lower cost, greater reliability, greater customer satisfaction, and more... Achieving Operational Excellence - What to Consider Before Implementing or Upgrading Your Distribution Management Solutions Sep 16 2010 - 2010-01-01 12:00:00 - Your City Significant cost over runs. Changing business requirements. A well thought out plan is essential. Attend this free webcast discussion to hear inside hear three experts in utility operations discuss what utilities need to evaluate when they are considering upgrading or more... 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Kate Rowland

Managing Editor, Intelligent Utility Magazine Energy Central
	Member Since: 10/01/08 Author Rating: Silver Article Count: 9 Email this author Phone: 250-227-8938

Background

Kate Rowland is the Managing Editor of Intelligent Utility magazine, and Editor-in-Chief of Energy Central's Intelligent Utility Daily. She has more than 25 years' experience as an editor, writer and researcher with national news and business publications as well as radio. Kate has written about energy issues for numerous trade and mainstream business publications for more than a decade.

Articles

12.23.09	Tangled Network: Transmission or Meter Investments Topic: Grid Operations Article Viewed 3521 Times; 3 comments It's as old a debate as the chicken and the egg, and as complicated as the Gordian knot. Should utilities tackle transmission or customers first when making investments in a smarter grid?

8.19.09	PMUs in the Limelight Topic: Grid Operations Article Viewed 3527 Times; Comment on this article Thanks to a heightened interest in all things stimulus-focused, phasor measurement unit (PMU) technology, which had been advancing steadily in the background, has now been shoved into the spotlight.

7.2.09	It's Off to the Races for Smart Grid Funding Topic: Metering Article Viewed 4256 Times; Comment on this article With the US Department of Energy's release last week of its funding opportunity guidelines for both the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) and the Smart Grid Development Program (SGDP), the race is now on to submit applications prior to August 6 and August 26, respectively.

6.3.09	Federal Cyber Security Plan to Further Bolster NERC CIP? Topic: Grid Operations Article Viewed 3987 Times; 1 comments As with much of an electric utility's communications and control systems infrastructure, its SCADA system could attract the attention of a cyber-hacker.

5.5.09	Computer Security Experts: the Grid's Communications Infrastructure is Not Yet Invulnerable Topic: Communications & Security Article Viewed 4152 Times; 2 comments On May 1, the communications, technology, and the Internet subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing on cyber security, looking specifically at communication networks, power grids, and governmental information systems. And, while this type of industry discussion is usually held within the aegis of "grid security", some of the concerns raised to government in this hearing call for debate and discussion in the communications infrastructure realm, as well.

4.20.09	Assessing Cyber-Physical System Security Topic: Communications & Security Article Viewed 3785 Times; 1 comments The electric power grid is a highly automated network, with a variety of communication networks interconnected to it in order to sense, monitor and control the electricity flowing through it. With that high level of automation, however, comes the challenge of protecting it.

4.9.09	FERC's Smart Grid Policy Proposal Sure to Stimulate Discussion Topic: Grid Operations Article Viewed 3746 Times; 1 comments Issued March 19, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's proposed smart grid policy statement and action plan is designed to provide "guidance to inform the development of a smarter grid for the Nation's electric transmission system focusing on the development of key standards to achieve interoperability of smart grid devices and systems."

3.16.09	Beyond NERC CIP: The Changing Horizon of Grid Security Topic: Communications & Security Article Viewed 4213 Times; 1 comments No longer freshly minted, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation -- Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC-CIP) standards, which have been in place now for a year, brought the industry a set of basic cyber-security must-haves.

2.26.09	Is a National Clean Energy Smart Grid Convergence on the Horizon? Topic: Grid Operations Article Viewed 4137 Times; 1 comments As the U.S. government moves ever closer to enacting a new national energy policy, dialogue concerning the potential for a national clean-energy smart grid has moved to the forefront of many high-level discussions. In the past two months, white papers, policy papers, and public discourse and roundtables have focused on proposals for making critical changes to the policy framework for this country's electrical transmission and distribution system.

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