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Operations & Maintenance: Who Has the Best Margin?

Operations & Maintenance

Operations & Maintenance

The process of calculating meaningful benchmarks is fraught with pitfalls.

Regulatory reporting requirements for major U.S. utilities provide a wealth of data for benchmarking studies. Both the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Form 1 for electric utilities and FERC Form 2 for gas utilities involve the reporting of more than 2,500 unique data points per utility per year, across diverse aspects of utility operations, maintenance, and finance.

Byline: 
Peter Manos
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Power Measurements

Failing the Market-Power Test:

Power Measurement

Failing the Market-Power Test:

How FERC's ruling could affect wholesale power markets.

Byline: 
Jon Ecker
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Technology Corridor

Cyber and Physical Security:

Technology Corridor

Cyber and Physical Security:

Although NERC and other agencies are helping out, utilities still face internal obstacles.

Byline: 
Christian Hamaker
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What is an Advanced Meter?

The technology behind demand-side response.

If energy legislation requires all utilities to offer demand-response programs, will your company be ready? A review of advanced metering is in order.
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Sharon Allan

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Outsourcing, Reliability, and IT: When will the Three Meet?

How to make sure your outsourcing partner works as an extension of your IT organization.

It is imperative that the CIS manager treats the outsourcing partner team as an extension of his own staff. Good working relationships between the client and the on-site partner team go a long way to ensure processes that provide reliability and security are adequately followed.
Byline: 

Rajiv Bahl

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Outsourcing & IT as a Strategic Option

Special ECM Section

In this quarterly ECM section, a series of articles in Fortnightly reviews the different outsourcing and IT options that are available and what utilities should consider before adopting outsourcing and IT technologies.
Byline: 

Richard Stavros

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Tapping Distributed Energy Resources

Voltage Regulation: Reactive power is the key to an efficient and reliable grid.

Last year’s blackout was driven, in part, by uncontrolled voltage oscillations, capping several years of voltage collapses among utilities. Are reactive power delivery and dynamic reactive power reserves part of the solution?
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John D. Kueck et al.

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