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Asset Management
	Corporate CIO Staffs Are Confused About Interoperability, And They Are Not Alone! 05/08/08 - By Rik Drummond , CEO and Chief Scientist, Drummond Group Inc. The software purchasing community requires interoperable products in their networks, value and supply chains that install easily to begin intercommunicating with other like products in a straight forward manner. This frequently is not the case even with products that call themselves interoperable, and this may costs the organization hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional IT expense. Viewed 57 Times; Comment on this article
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Current Issues
	Airlines: The Canary in the Peak Oil Coalmine? 05/07/08 - By Michael Chiacos , Energy Program Senior Associate, Community Environmental Council Four airlines announced their bankruptcy in April. While Frontier plans to reorganize and keep operating, three of them, Aloha, ATA, and Skybus, are all grounded for good. Other airlines are taking huge losses, cutting staff, and slashing their routes and numbers of planes. Viewed 262 Times; 13 comments
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International
	From the Soviet Union to Putin's Russia 05/06/08 - By Alan Caruba , CEO, The Caruba Organization When the government of the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the fall was attributed to all kinds of reasons. There was the failed invasion of Afghanistan, the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and, after some desperate efforts by Mikhail Gorbechev, Communism as a guiding principle and economic system simply imploded. Viewed 219 Times; 11 comments
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Metering & Data Management
	Trends in Meter Data Management System Acquisitions 05/09/08 - By Mark Hatfield , Principal Consultant, Enspiria Solutions All of the major MDMS vendors can calculate billing determinants and do validation, estimation and editing (VEE). Yet, as utilities are expanding AMI business cases beyond just reading meters and TOU rates, they expect more functionality out of the MDMS they will select. Viewed 34 Times; 1 comment
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T&D Automation
	The Next Step in Outdoor Instrument Transformer Technology 05/05/08 - By Hoan Le , Consulting Engineer, ABB Inc. Instrument transformers are designed to transform voltage or current from the high values in the transmission and distribution systems to the low values that can be utilized by low voltage devices. Viewed 90 Times; Comment on this article
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