Workforce Planning in Energy Conference

Submitted by jcole on Thu, 2013-06-27 15:35

Attending the Workforce Planning in Energy Conference will enable delegates to pick up skills to empower their employees. Join industry leaders from ENMAX, Devon Energy, ARC Resources and many more to discuss best practices surrounding energy-adjacent business to build a competent, loyal workforce.

By attending, delegates will have the opportunity to strengthen workforce recruitment, retention and attraction, devise efficacious recruitment and acquisition tactics among industry giants and inspire candidates from prospective talent pools.

Smarten Up Your OMS

With the estimated annual cost of outages to be more than $150 billion in the United States alone, reduction of this significant economical impact is important. To help manage the grid during service interruptions, nearly every distribution utility uses an Outage Management System (OMS). The OMS is a valuable tool for cutting costs — both for the utility and its rate payers.

Benchmarking Storm Restoration

Submitted by mburr on Tue, 2013-06-25 15:45
There's no such thing as an average superstorm, and every situation requires a unique strategy. But data on utilities' performance in response to major storms helps identify best practices -- and lessons learned.
There's no such thing as an average superstorm, and every situation requires a unique strategy. But data on utilities' performance in response to major storms helps identify best practices -- and lessons learned.

Digest

DOE funds B&W to develop and license small modular reactor technology; Panda awards 758-MW combined cycle contract to Bechtel; AEP picks Open Systems International to manage SPP and PJM generation assets; GDF Suez teams up with Viridity Energy for DR services; NRG and PJM go live with University of Delaware V2G project; Minnesota Power energizes new substation serving taconite mine; FP&L completes 4.5-million smart meter rollout; plus contracts and announcements from Duke, FirstSolar, Iberdrola, SRP, ABB, Elster, Siemens, and others.
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Cost-Recovery for Pre-Approved Projects

Uncertainties remain, but recent cases provide guidance.

Levelized rates can serve customers’ interests, while also accelerating capital investment and providing an economic stimulus to the economy.

Byline: 

Patricia D. Galloway and David L. Cousineau

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Reducing Rate Shocks

Original-cost ratemaking doesn’t suit the challenges facing utilities today.

Levelized rates can serve customers’ interests, while also accelerating capital investment and providing an economic stimulus to the economy.

Byline: 

A. Lawrence Kolbe, Philip Q Hanser, Bin Zhou

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Profit and the New Normal

Delivering value in a zero-growth market.

Disruptive technologies and resource shifts are changing the utility business model. Market factors are driving companies toward four possible paths.

Byline: 

Kelly P. Gallant, Timothy P. Porter, Jack Azagury

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Industry in Transition

Utility CEOs face disruptive trends.

Top executives at AEP, the California ISO, and El Paso Electric address key challenges and opportunities.

Byline: 

Michael T. Burr

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Investor Sequester

State complaints over FERC-granted equity returns could dry up funding for transmission expansion.

Perhaps sensing the weight of evidence allayed against them, transmission owners have thrown caution to the wind by openly and admittedly submitting an ROE analysis that doesn’t comport with FERC precedent.

Byline: 

Bruce W. Radford

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