Electric Energy T&D Magazine November/December 2013

4 - PowerPoints: Exactly the same… only different

By Terry Wildman, Editor-in-Chief

As we motor along through autumn, everything around us seems to be doing just what it always does.
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12 - The Grid Transformation Forum: Envisioning the 21st Century Grid
Electric Utility Companies Natural Deregulation… Is it around the corner?

By Nicholas Abi-Samra, DNV GL, Senior VP, Electricity Transmission and Distribution, Energy Advisory

We are in conversation with Nicholas Abi-Samra, Senior Vice President, Electricity Transmission and Distribution, Energy Advisory for DNV GL.
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16 - Green Ovations: Innovations in Green Technologies
Electric Vehicles Could Offer More Gain than Drain

By Dr. Mladen Kezunovic

Plug-in hybrid vehicles and battery electric vehicles pose a number of challenges for aging power infrastructures, including the potential to accelerate the aging of power transformers.
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19 - Use of Custom-fitted Cover-ups to Reduce Power Outages and Mitigate Avian

By Nikki S. Heck, P Biol. and Todd Sutherland, P.Eng.

Wildlife, such as small animals and birds, has been a burden to utilities and system reliability for as long as the modern electrical grid has existed.
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24 - Leveraging AMI Data for Distribution Asset Management

By Dr. Siri Varadan, P.E.

The business case for AMI deployment has often been made palatable to the regulators on the basis of widespread business benefits for the utility and the ratepayer.
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28 - Three Critical Areas for Ensuring a Successful NERC Audit in 2014
Reliability Standard Audit Worksheet (RSAW) Preparation, Narratives, and Evidence

By Bob Biggs

The 2014 NERC audit season is soon upon us.
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33 - Big Data's Big Leap: Energy Providers Invest in SAP HANA to Enhance Data Insights

By Dr. Werner Hopf

Few would argue that the age of Big Data has arrived. The promise of previously unavailable insight and analysis is a driving factor behind the Big Data proliferation, and with good reason.
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35 - Advanced DMS and Microgrids: A Match Made in Heaven

By Jeff Meyers, P.E.

As long as there has been a commercial distribution grid, non-utility-owned distributed generators (DGs) have presented operating challenges.
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38 - Ontario Renewables: Big no Longer Fit; New Game to be played The Bigger Picture

By Bernadette Corpuz, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

The Ontario Power Authority (“OPA”) launched draft rules for the third series in Ontario's Feed-in Tariff Program (“FIT 3.0”) on September 4, 2013.
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42 - Executive Summary
SECURITY SESSIONS

By Doug Westlund, P.Eng.

Cyber-attacks against critical infrastructure sectors in general and the energy sector in particular have escalated at an alarming rate in recent years.
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47 - Guest Editorial 1: Smart Metering - the Customer Experience

By Christine Easterfield

At the heart of every utility is the customer. Not the regulator, not the government, not even necessarily the shareholder – for without a contented customer, shareholder value is hard to sustain.
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49 - Guest Editorial 2: The Role of Big Data Visualization and Analytics in the Utility Industry

By Brian Bradford

Many industries are beginning to realize the full potential of big data and the role of analytics.
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Electric Energy T&D Magazine November/December Supplement 2013

4 - Vegetation Management Strategy, Prudent Practices, & Tools

By James W. Dow

Prudent vegetation management, as applied to electric power transmission, embodies prudent risk management.
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11 - On the Tenth Anniversary of the 2003 Blackout: Are we Any Closer to Preventing Outages?

By Edward H. Kennedy

Ten years ago an overgrown tree near Cleveland, Ohio started a chain reaction that caused the blackout of 2003, a cascading power failure that caused most of the Northeastern United States and neighboring parts of Canada to lose power.
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13 - Customized IVM Programs Support Safe, Reliable Power Supply

By Dan Zapotok, industrial vegetation management portfolio manager, DuPont Crop Protection

One overgrown tree can interfere with electrical transmission and bring thousands of businesses and homes to a standstill.
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18 - Grid Resiliency: Preparing for the Inevitable Storms

By Bradley Williams

Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy, almost a year apart, walloped the east coast of the United States like a one-two punch.
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21 - Disaster Planning: Protecting First Emergency Responders

By Jeff Grosshauser

Disasters of every kind prevail at movie theaters and on TV. Hollywood is skilled at portraying the chaos and life or death drama of disasters of both man-made and natural kinds.
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Electric Energy T&D Magazine November/December 2013

Electric Energy T&D Magazine November/December Supplement 2013

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