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Sensus FlexNet Manages Chattanooga's New Smart Municipal Lighting
Sensus - The city council of Chattanooga, Tenn., has approved a contract proposal to replace existing municipal lights with high efficiency lighting fixtures that incorporate FlexNet wireless remote monitoring and control capabilities from smart grid infrastructure provider, Sensus. more...
Cooper Power Systems Announces Yukon Advanced Energy Services Software IED Manager Suite Release 5.0
Cooper Power Systems - Cooper Power Systems, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), announced today the availability of its Yukon IED Manager Suite (IMS) release 5.0. more...
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Tantalus Completes Deployment of New Dispatchable Conservation Voltage Regulation Program
Tantalus Systems Corp. - Tantalus, a leading provider of Smart Grid communications, today announced the successful implementation of the company's first dispatchable conservation voltage regulation (DCVRTM) program. more...
North Carolina Emerges as Smart Grid Technology Hub
ABB Inc. - ABB's new Smart Grid Center of Excellence is the nation's first-of-its-kind demonstration center and testing lab using cutting-edge Smart Grid software and equipment aimed at improving reliability in the midst of extreme weather. more...
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Reliable, Resilient and Secure - Does your Smart Grid Communication Infra deliver on it's promise?

Blogger Photo By Devendra Vishwakarma - Everybody in Power Systems and Utilities community will agree to the fact that Reliable, Resilient and Secure Communications infrastructure is more...

Break Through in IT and Control Systems can lead to Plug and Play Smart Grid Systems

By Alok Misra - Recent Advances in ITand Control Systems can very early lead to Plug and Play Smart Grid systems. However the lacking more...

How do we create an ethical grid?

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Smart Meter Security : Do we need to panic? Or make mitigation strategy?

Blogger Photo By Devendra Vishwakarma - Since the beginning this week t he focus of the smart grid discussions has been  around smart meter and AMI communications more...

Smart Meter Security : An imperative in reducing vulnerability of Power Grids

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Securing AMI at BC Hydro: The Benefits of a Multi-Layered Security Architecture

 Thursday May 31, 2012 - 12:00 PM Eastern - Virtual Event

Cyber security is one of the top concerns for utilities that are implementing a smart grid network solution. Consumer privacy and data integrity are critical. The good news is that industry leaders have established proven processes and procedures to mitigate more...
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Navigating the Smart Grid Middle Mile

By Eedo Lifshitz
Maturing communications technology is playing an integral role in the advancement of today's smart grid infrastructure and enabling utilities and municipalities to generate and distribute power, as well as deliver new services and applications that more...
Filed Under Communications & Security

Simple Practices Help Prevent Expensive Data Loss

By Ernest Hayden
In the April/May 2011 edition of Intelligent Utility Magazine, there was an interesting article about the Salt River Project electric utility and its focus on data loss prevention -- otherwise called DLP. The key points more...
Filed Under Communications & Security

Is Compliance Enough? How to Ensure Logical Access Control

By Kurt Johnson
A recent audit by the Department of Energy's inspector general, as reported in a recent Wired Magazine article, found that the official government cyber-security standards for the electrical power grid, set by the Federal Energy more...
Filed Under Communications & Security

Protecting Customer Privacy in Smart Grid

By Sambit Bisoi
Smart grids have intelligent monitoring devices, which frequently transmit the customers' power usage information to the utility containing information like which appliances were in use, their frequency of usage, time of usage, consumption amount, carbon more...
Filed Under Communications & Security

The Prospective Solar Tsunami

By Alberto Ramirez Orquin
Different from the past, the upcoming cycle-24 solar maximum is currently surrounded by an unprecedented general expectation. Indeed the so-called solar tsunami has now come to the forefront of interest turning into a household word; more...
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