September/October 2017
Issue 5 - October 2017

Power Points | Busting the Biodiesel Myth and a Heartfelt Thank You

By Elisabeth Monaghan, Editor-in-Chief

In the July/August 2017 issue of EET&D, I wrote that I am looking into buying a new car.
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The Grid Transformation Forum | The Internet of Things Starts with the Grid of Things - Part 4
The Role of Collaboration

By Bill Meehan, Geoff Zeiss, David Socha, Dr. Robert Sarfi, Mike Goggin, Matt Sheehan, Dr. John J. Simmins, and Zac Canders

How can we, the industry, become interoperable? It's a question on the minds of most utility executives and service providers. And while the answer is a simple word, collaboration, how we, the industry, achieve this vision is a little more elusive.
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Green Ovations | A Broad Overview of Renewable Energy Storage

By Brandon Bartling, Tim Hebrink, Michael Yandrasits and Krzysztof Lewinski

Exponential growth in solar and wind renewable energy generation has the potential to create grid instability. Both solar- and wind-generated energy are intermittent sources that fluctuate in energy delivered to the grid.
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From Research to Action | Utility Communications Networks for a DER Future

By Walt Johnson and Christine Hertzog

In order to facilitate integration of more distributed energy resources (DER) into distribution grids, U.S. utilities will have to apply standards that present opportunities and challenges as they create flexible, interoperable, and secure data and communication architectures.
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Analytics: The Journey, Not the Destination

By Mike Smith

Regulations, corporate drivers, leadership and market influences have combined to produce a patchwork of uneven progress on critical utility industry initiatives such as distributed generation, customer choice, asset optimization and the industrial Internet of Things.
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Protecting the US Power System: The Science of Space Weather

By Jennifer Gannon

Space weather continually affects the earth, as plasma ejected from the sun interacts with the earth's natural magnetic field. We are often unaware of the geomagnetic storms that occur from month to month, due to solar coronal holes, high-speed streams, and coronal mass ejections.
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Guest Editorial 1 | What it Takes to be a Successful Innovator

By Pranav Shanbhag and Shaswat Anand

Senior leaders at global energy and utility companies have the vision and passion needed to make innovation happen. Yet they do not often enough see their efforts as being successful in driving growth, according to recent industry research.
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Guest Editorial 2 | Trickle Down Trickle Up Innovation Does Utility Size Matter in the Adoption of New Technology?

By Brad Harkavy

Few analysts have ever accused the utility industry of being an early adopter of cutting edge technology. Unlike other industries where fierce competition demands constant technological innovation, the utility's main concern is reliability.
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Security Sessions | What Cyber Security Experts Need to Know

By Dr. Tim Shaw

Recently I overheard a couple of supposedly-knowledgeable cyber security experts discussing the amazing (to them) range of microprocessorbased devices they were running into in a power generating station where they were working with the electric utility to achieve compliance with the everevolving NERC CIP requirements.
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