Automation Insight archives
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September 2011
Moneybulb: Data analytics and the future of the smart grid
July 2011
Insights from the California smart grid deployment plans
May 2011
Smart grid data privacy: Chaos by design?
April 2011
Does giving customers the ability to opt-out of AMI programs create new problems?
February 2011
Smart Grid Communications Risk Management
November 2010
Paving the Way with Innovation: An Interview with Terry Boston, CEO, PJM Interconnection
October 2010
Moving the Virtual Power Plant vision to reality
August 2010
Advanced Metering Systems Infrastructure: Accuracy needs must go beyond the meter
June 2010
Process and Organizational Disruption from Smart Grid
The new utility leadership paradigm: C-suite insight into balancing customer demands, technology and environment for the sustainable energy future
April 2010
Smart Grid Development Is Not Limited to the U.S.
February 2010
Follow the Money: Stimulus Funding Begins to Flow Into Smart Grid Sector
December 2009
Privacy and the smart grid
November 2009
How Smart Grid Devices Will Impact Electric Utility Distribution Operations Control Centers
August 2009
Transmission automation and distribution emerging trends
KEMA’s Experience with Applications to the Smart Grid Investment Grant Program
July 2009
Toward a Unified Effort for AMI Standardization
June 2009
Summary of Smart Grid Grants
May 2009
Recovery act funding update
Getting acquainted with ANSI C12.19 and C12.22
April 2009
Smart data, dumb grid?
Dispute grows over cybersecurity jurisdiction
Navigating sustainability: New directions in industry relationships
March 2009
The stimulus and the smart grid
Understanding the impact of using routable protocols outside a NERC critical cyber asset
February 2009
AMI as demand response enabling technology
Smart metering boosts efficiency
Optimise and reap
January 2009
Smart grid revolution should lead to job creation boom
Status report on plug-in electric vehicles and plug-in electric hybrids
December 2008
The smart grid in review
November 2008
Accelerated depreciation for smart grid technologies becomes law
GE and Google form partnership to press clean energy, smart grid initiatives
Smart grids: European situation and developments
KEMA whitepaper series: Integrated network strategy for utilities
October 2008
The utility of the future - an emerging vision takes shape
New security standards have utilities, vendors scrambling for compliance
Water utilities increasingly on the AMI bandwagon
July 2008
Progress towards better demand response: a review of the FERC/NARUC demand response collaborative meeting
FERC and NARUC continue their smart grid collaborative efforts
Get a HAN on the situation – controlling the future
May 2008
KEMA's utility of the future: getting from here to there
What's happening behind the meter?
Failure analysis is a continuous process: tools that can be utilized
April 2008
Societal benefits of smart grid — an economics perspective
Using AMI data to improve direct load control programs
A conversation with John Clark, CEO of V2Green
Then and now: current trends for HAN integration reveal slow (but promising) growth
March 2008
A conversation with Terry Mohn, Technology Strategist, San Diego Gas & Electric
Utility experience shows AMR could support outage management
When is a Meter not a meter?
February 2008
Regulators and legislators build momentum for AMI studies and deployment
AMI developments in the Netherlands
Chatting with Brian Pugliese
New advances (and setbacks) make 2008 a pivotal year for WiMAX
January 2008
Silver Spring V.P. shares thoughts on standards, IP-based meters, and obsolescence concerns
New developments in prepay services
Building models for the “smart grid” business case
ZigBee Alliance V.P. shares thoughts on interoperability, competitors
December 2007
Duke Energy remains committed to interoperability
Value drivers and risk factors for AMI remote disconnect/reconnect functionality
Implementing the smart grid: enterprise information integration
August 2007
The evolving convergence of distribution, automation and advanced metering infrastructure
New trends emerging for AMI cost recovery
Demand response landscape comprises diverse market
May 2007 - special issue, Metering America
KEMA intelligence and analysis finds many utilities starting to develop AMI and utility-of-the-future strategies
Use cases can provide an effective roadmap toward AMI deployment
March 2007
Second-mover disadvantage: can waiting to deploy AMI increase your risk?
Is it finally time for prepay?
EPAct pushing states — and utilities — closer to decisions on AMI
Energy efficiency driving smart metering movement in Europe
November 2006
Publication to provide insights on AMI’s impact on the utility of the future
Southern California Edison uses dedicated AMI team to drive increased benefits
Meter data management: the key to unlocking benefits throughout the utility
Fixed networks gaining ground as utilities seek greater benefits from automation