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I March-April 2009 Issue
IN THIS ISSUE
4 GrIdLINES
Welcome to the March/April 009 issue of Electric Energy T&D! As you read this,
already the second quarter of the year will be well under way, and we should be starting
to see not only more details about how and when the looming economic challenges we
are all facing will be addressed, but also how our industry will fare in that process.
14 LIGHTSON™: INfOrmaTION TEcHNOLOGy: a GUIdE TO ENvIrONmENTaL
cOmpLIaNcE fOr aEp
LightsOn™ focuses on companies and technologies that are making tangible
contributions to improving reliability and sustainability – the things that are
instrumental in keeping the lights on!
20 THE 2009 aUTOmaTION/IT LEadErSHIp SErIES
“As America’s leaders work to speed economic recovery, they need a system to
properly manage and execute the Stimulus Plan; building a National GIS is key to
success.” These are the words of Jack Dangermond.
24 dESIGNING aNd pOpULaTING GEOSpaTIaL SySTEmS TO SUppOrT
advaNcEd appLIcaTIONS fOr fIELd aUTOmaTION
Electric utility companies are typically using aspects of GIS to support the various
business processes involved in managing the electric system and providing service
to customers, such as feeding outage management and power flow analysis systems.
28 SmarT GrId TakES fLIGHT aT crOw wING pOwEr
Crow Wing Power, an electric cooperative serving 36,000 members in rural north
central Minnesota, recently reached the one-year mark in a project implementing a 700
MHz licensed wireless broadband communication network from Arcadian Networks.
31 INTEGraTEd Scada/dmS/OmS: INcrEaSING dISTrIbUTION
OpEraTIONS EffIcIENcy
Many electric distribution organizations are presently evaluating their approach
to integrating three key operational systems – SCADA (Supervisory Control and
Data Acquisition), OMS (Outage Management System) and DMS (Distribution
Management System).
35 kEEpING THE LIGHTS ON IN cENTraL SOUTH carOLINa
Power outages, whether large or small, can range from a mere inconvenience to a
matter of life or death. Outages are almost always unplanned events, but electric
utilities have a responsibility to their customers to provide reliable service, no
matter the circumstance.
38 aLL IN THE famILy: maNaGING OUTSOUrcEd SErvIcE cONTracTOrS
For once, Harry left his office early on Friday afternoon, with all plans for next
week’s work completed. In particular, he had coordinated all the work required for
laying a new underground electricity distribution circuit: …
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