Electric Energy T&D Magazine January/February 2016

4 - PowerPoints | Justin Time for this Optimist

By Terry Wildman, Editor-in-Chief

If a biographer were to ask me to name one of the more dominant traits I possess, I'd have to say that I'm a true optimist. I have an inherent trust in the goodness of people.
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14 - The Grid Transformation Forum | How Operational Analytics can bring clarity and aid decision making for the smart grid

By Neil Rothwell

We are in conversation with Dr. Neil Rothwell, Director of Business Development, AssetWise Analytics with Bentley Systems.
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18 - Green Ovations | There's some Super-Hero in all of us

By Dave Bryant

If you're reading this magazine, there's a fairly good chance you're old enough (but not too old) to remember the phrase "Holy Cow, Batman!" The reason I bring this up is because the world of energy in whatever city, Gotham or otherwise, you happen to live in is more exciting, daunting, and incredible than any of us could have ever imagined.
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24 - From Research to Action | Utility Data Analytics Project Makes Molehills out of Mountains

By Doug Dorr and Jared Green

Enter the Electric Power Research Institute's (EPRI's) Distribution Modernization Demonstration (DMD). The initiative aims to identify what can be done with existing data, gain insights from the data that were previously unknown or perhaps not yet conceptualized, and assist utilities as they become more versatile with big data analytics and associated activities.
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26 - Surveying for Electrical Losses

By Jeremy Wright

UK Power Networks (UKPN) is on a mission to reduce system losses and is considering some unconventional means. Conventional wisdom is that electric distribution system losses are primarily from two sources; resistive losses and transformer excitation losses.
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29 - How to Build a Smart Control Room

By Don Kreski

As electric utilities face ongoing demands for better service and fewer, shorter outages, they look to include the latest 'smart' technology in their operation centers.
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31 - Electricity Storage Reaches New Heights

By Bala Venkatesh and Mohamed Awadallah

In modern power systems, energy storage has become imperative because of the increasing penetration of renewable sources, distributed generation and microgrids.
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34 - Legacy Thinking: How to fix outage communication and gain operation efficiency

By Matthew Ockwell

A recent visit with a utility customer provided an opportunity to tour their newly renovated 60+ terminal call center, designed to serve a population of more than four million.
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37 - Big Data: Enabler of an Intelligent, Sustainable Grid

By Steve Collier

Beginning with Thomas Edison's Pearl Street Station in the late 1800s, persistent economies of scale, declining prices, exponential growth in demand, and steady improvement in technology supported the development an electric utility grid architecture and industry business model that continued largely unchanged for almost a century.
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40 - Optimizing Performance across Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering with Connected Asset Lifecycle Management

By Rick Nicholson and Chris Rittler

Once upon a time, data gathering was the problem; utilities had no way to see the big picture. With the advent of now-ubiquitous software systems and the rapidly growing convergence of IT and OT, there is plenty of data.
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43 - Expanding from Smart Grid to Smart City

By Jason Wilson

In the United States, nearly all municipalities have deployed or are considering deploying smart grid initiatives to deliver intelligent energy services to their citizens.
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44 - Getting to ZERO: One Task at a Time

By Carl Potter

The electric utility continues to come to grips with achieving ZERO injuries. It's a journey that people at all levels in T&D organizations have their eyes on.
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46 - Don't make me do it, I can't do it, it's too hard!!

By William T. (Tim) Shaw, PhD, CISSP / CIEH / CPT

In spite of regulatory pressures and government mandates and reading about cyber attacks and data breaches in the news almost daily there are still a surprising number of industrial facilities that have not implemented an effective cyber security program to protect their critical digital assets.
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50 - Guest Editorial | Bringing Renewable Energy to the Grid

By Jacob Susman

Bringing renewable energy to the grid is no easy achievement. Even with the savviest team of experts and a strong balance sheet, it takes a wealth of patience and resources to navigate through each project's complex roadmap.
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Electric Energy T&D Magazine January/February 2016

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