Market restructuring and regulatory requirements are changing the way utilities operate. At the center of industry change is the Customer Information System, often referred to as the CIS. By upgrading ...

With the advent of CAD, work order management, and purchasing technology in recent decades, substation engineering underwent a transformation. Design, purchasing, and construction management ...

Aging infrastructure is a well-recognized challenge across our nation’s energy system with investor-owned utilities spending a record of $19.5 billion in electric transmission infrastructure last year ...

If utility personnel responsible for cyber security compliance have had any exposure to the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) program sponsored by the North American Electric Reliability ...

The Power of Zinc and Weathering Steel Extends Steel’s Service Life The quality and inherent value of steel distribution poles is often enhanced by the process of hot-dip galvanizing, or the use of ...

Electric utilities recognize the need for new distribution network technologies to accommodate sustainable growth and customers’ growing interest in grid-connected, customer-owned technologies such as ...

To improve emergency response operations, utilities across the United States and Canada are increasingly adopting the Incident Command System (ICS). Given what appears to be the increasing severity of ...

A major storm has hit the area. Thousands, maybe even tens of thousands, are without electricity. The utility company must resolve the outage emergency as soon as possible – a large part of which ...

Electric power industry deregulation that has occurred over the past decade has wrought many changes, both positive and negative. It also has exposed some vulnerabilities within the electric power ...

Autility's distribution system has the greatest impact on customer perception of utility services. This is because disturbances on the distribution system are responsible for about 90% of outages, ...

A major objective of NERC CIP cyber security standards is to ensure that only specifically authorized people are able to electronically access control systems and Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) ...

IN THE PAST, the distribution aspects of electric utilities were part of vertically integrated monopolies responsible for generation, transmission, distribution, and customer service. Prior to the ...