Electric Energy T&D Magazine September/October 2016

4 - Power Points | CIGRE 2016, the Leading Event for Power Systems Experts

By Terry Wildman, Editor-in-Chief

Every year there are dozens of conferences dedicated to electrical transmission and distribution.
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14 - The Grid Transformation Forum | How Real Time Data Yields Payoffs for Power Distribution Systems

By Erik Christian

Analytics and real-time data play a prominent role in today's utility grid, each opening opportunities for both large investor owned utilities as well as smaller municipal and co-op utilities to better operate their networks.
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16 - Green Ovations | Mine Your Own Forecast

By Dr. R. O. Mueller, Dr. D. Yenigun, J. Singer

Mine-Weather is an analytical database and visualization system designed to allow companies to probe the accuracy of the weather forecasts they use to plan their activities and preparedness in the case of storm conditions.
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20 - From Research to Action | Developing a Strategic Architecture for Utility Telecommunications

By Christine Hertzog and Tim Godfrey

Today's power grids can't run without reliable, resilient, flexible, and secure telecommunications (or telecoms) networks. The intelligent devices that monitor and control the flow of electricity on high- and low-voltage grids require real- and near-real-time data transport capabilities.
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21 - Protection and Control System Impacts from the Digital World – Part 1 of 2

By Stefan Meier and Steven Kunsman

Gone are the days of the simple electro-mechanical relay without firmware and communication interfaces. The fact exists that protection and control systems have changed significantly in the past decade and will continue to change with technology advancements.
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25 - The Importance of Balancing Operational System Needs for an Evolving Distribution Grid

By Bradley Williams

Electric utilities recognize the need for new distribution network technologies to accommodate customers' growing interest in grid-connected, consumer-owned energy technologies such as solar rooftops, home/building energy management systems, and smart appliances.
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28 - Plugging the Industrial Internet into Your OT Architecture: 3 Steps to Leveraging the IIoT in Your Smart Grid

By Adam Reiss

Operational Technology innovation embodied in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is proliferating at a rapid pace.
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30 - East Central Energy Virtually Shrinks Service Area and Significantly Reduces Fleet Costs

By Robert Dennis

Electricity, always taking the path of least resistance, is efficiency in its simplest form. East Central Energy, as with many electric cooperatives, strives for the efficiency of the very product they provide.
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32 - Avoiding the Pitfalls of Data Acquisition

By Matt Karli

In today's world, data of all types are used to drive decisions within organizations. Those who ask the right questions, and have the right data to provide answers, often find themselves with a significant advantage over the competition.
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35 - Internet of Things and Solving Latency For an Instantaneous World

By Bob Akins

We have all heard about the impending Internet of Things (IoT) revolution. As a matter of fact, such talk has been going on for many years.
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38 - Security Sessions | Sure It's 'Smart', but Is It Really, Truly All That Smart?

By Dr. Tim Shaw

Industrial cyber security is challanging for a number of reasons, one being the range of “smart” devices that we commonly use for monitoring, analysis, protection and control.
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41 - Guest Editorial 1 | IEC 61850: Much More Than a Protocol

By Bruce Muschlitz

When asked the question "what is IEC 61850?" most people would respond "an automating protocol". Although this is part of the answer, a better answer would be "a comprehensive way to look at all aspects of an automation system".
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46 - Guest Editorial 2 | The Internet of Things Starts with The Grid of Things

By Ryan Zaczynski

While Zac's statement drew more than a few chuckles among us here at DataCapable, he had a point: we've reached a time when technologies such as Toaster-to-Utility communications have moved from the realm of 'possible' to 'inevitable.'
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Electric Energy T&D Magazine September/October Supplement 2016

2 - How Laser Technology Simplifies Vegetation Management and Protects the Grid

By Paul Adkins

Besides the obvious safety implications of having adequate vegetation clearance from power lines, power companies often face heavy regulatory pressure to ensure they maintain compliance for these clearance mandates.
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6 - Keeping Animals Out, Keeping the Lights On
Electric utilities wage war against the growing trend of animal-caused outages

By Scott Beeler

Every year, property owners look to the skies in anticipation of the next summer storm or winter blizzard that might result in a potential power outage. The reality is, the next power outage is likely to come from something much closer to the ground.
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Electric Energy T&D Magazine September/October 2016

Electric Energy T&D Magazine September/October Supplement 2016

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