Quarterly Issue 1
Issue 1 - January 2019

Power Points | Preparing For What's Ahead

By Elisabeth Monaghan, Editor in Chief

The chatter may have died down about the top industry wins in 2018, but all of us will continue working to address the industry's most pressing issues. To ensure we are helping electric utilities and other industry partners respond to the greatest challenges they face in 2019, our contributors to this issue discuss the tactics and proven solutions that have worked for them and which just might help the rest of us prepare for what's ahead.
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The Grid Transformation Forum | Reaching Conservation, Climate and Customer Goals with User-Friendly Smart Home Technology

By Jeff Hamel

Cutting-edge smart home technology that is user-friendly and compatible with other devices will be the key to utilities reaching unprecedented levels of success in customer engagement, demand management and associated reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Offering a central home energy platform with device control and interoperability is a good place to start.
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Green Ovations | Today's Electricity Consumers Demand Personalization from Historically Impersonal Industry

By Alex Corneglio

Moving beyond online bill pay, real-time consumption charting and a digital presence across social media platforms, utilities must now also consider an expanding array of digital customer services, often driven by artificial intelligence, to better communicate with their customers on an individual level and generally improve operations.
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Old Concern – Utility Survival Haunts the New Energy Economy

By Jeremy Klingel

Systems are only as good as their uptime. No one understands this more than utility managers, who told Black & Veatch in the company's 2018 Strategic Directions: Electric Industry Report that the long-time challenges of reliability, security and infrastructure are just as important today as they have been in years past.
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“Real Time” Communications: Giving Electric Utilities the Upper Hand in Monitoring Critical Underground Infrastructure

By Jillian Leinen

Electric utilities are required to operate and maintain the critical infrastructure that is vital to the overall health of an electrical network. In many cases, these systems or installations are un-manned, often located in places like distant substations or underground manholes. With these remote sites, engineers, operators and technician crews must be physically on-site to collect data manually, monitor conditions or perform maintenance.
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How Instant Rebate Technology Is Transforming Customer Experience in the Energy Efficiency Sector

By Heather Gates

The energy industry is constantly experiencing disruption as new technologies emerge and customer preferences change. In years past, consumers sought safety and reliability from their energy utility, but have evolved to also expect comfort, convenience and control. Energy efficiency and demand response programs, coupled with connected and smart appliances, allow utilities to engage customers.
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Pestech International Uses Digital Twins to Help Improve Workflows on Malaysia Substation Project

By Teresa Elliott

Introducing the 2018 winner of Bentley System's Year in Infrastructure award in the Utility Transmission and Distribution Category: Pestech International and the Malaysia Substation Project.
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How Carbon Fibers Help Reduce Carbon Emissions and Why It Matters

By Dave Bryant

“One-hundred-year floods” seem to happen every two or three years these days. It's obvious that we are being impacted more than ever by changing weather patterns, and I share the opinion of others that we ought to do whatever we can to fight back.
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Building the Roadmap for a Successful Journey to Advanced Grid Management

By Sandy Simon

ADMS has vaulted to the top of utility executives' priority lists based on its promise of integrating existing real-time systems with advanced visualizations and functionality that streamline operations ensuring utilities are better positioned to meet reliability and resiliency goals. ADMS is also viewed as a cornerstone to the utilities' ability to respond and participate in a changing market in a way that keeps them relevant to both consumers and emerging players.
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Guest Editorial | Financing, Owning, and Insuring Solar Farms: Reducing Investment Risk

By Jim Fusaro

In recent years, prices for utility-scale solar projects have plummeted to an all-time low. With purchasing mechanisms such as public bids growing in popularity, there has been a “race to the bottom” in pricing, and today, the cost of solar farms is typically less than traditional fossil-fuel powered plants. This has created unprecedented growth in technology adoption and investment alike, showing promise for the clean energy transition of the future. But this doesn't come without challenges.
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Guest Editorial | You Can't Predict the Future of Smart Grid Integration, but You Can Manage It

By Brad Harkavy

Today, there is an explosion of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) such as wind, solar and storage being added to the grid daily. While Neils Bohr famously said, "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future," what is clear is the need for scalable technologies to manage an increasingly complex grid of devices, data and systems of systems from here forward.
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The Bigger Picture | Peeking into Utilities Future: Relevance, Risk and Resilience
IDC's 2019 Worldwide Utilities Top 10 Predictions

By Roberta Bigliani

Offering combining distributed generation and energy storage at home is just one among the several examples of how utilities are changing the way to accomplish their mission. Digital disruptors are circumventing industry entry barriers, and utilities are being reborn in 3D: decentralized, divergent and digital.
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Security Sessions | Creating a More Secure Electrical Grid Five Critical Considerations for Networked Equipment and Devices

By Max Wandera

As utilities implement innovative connected technologies, they're challenging suppliers to provide substantial cybersecurity assurance against emerging cyber threats. Although both the utility and manufacturer share responsibility when it comes to creating a secure grid, product cybersecurity should be an integral consideration much like product quality, with strict protocols placed on the people, processes and technologies at every phase of product creation.
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Powherful Forces | Kathy Nelson – Ondas Networks

By Elisabeth Monaghan, Editor in Chief

For this issue of EET&D, we are pleased to spotlight Kathy Nelson, a "powherful force," who leads industry relations and product marketing for Ondas Networks. With 25 years of experience as a telecommunications engineer in the electric utility space, Nelson has both witnessed - and participated in creating - the myriad changes the industry has undergone – especially over the past decade.
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