Apr 15 - Apr 17, 2012
The Ritz-Carlton, Phoenix
Working with IBM to deploy two mirrored IBM XIV Storage Systems, Yorkshire Water had significant capital and IT operational cost savings through server virtualization and consolidation.
An incentive from Progress Energy assisted Piggly Wiggly in dramatically improving their grocery refrigeration while doubling capacity and lowering their monthly energy bills.
Over the past decade, Union Hospital in Terre Haute, Ind., has been expanding its medical facilities to meet the community's growing health care needs. The hospital has relied on Duke Energy to provide a constant and reliable supply of electric power.
By using EMC Documentation Business Process Services to integrate business processes between different systems and applications, Constellation Energy is getting a lot more out of their other technology investments.
Identifying and predicting the conditions when a customer may have trouble paying their bills and then developing plans for helping those customers keep their accounts current is a real necessity.
AlertEnterprise delivers a software solution that works with existing enterprise applications, operational systems, control systems and physical access control systems to deliver a total security application for the smart grid.
Eclipse Packet Node uniquely combines high speed native IP transport with advanced convergence features, providing operators with an 'LTE-ready' solution that also supports a smooth transition from their existing network infrastructure.
This paper will provide a general introduction to the NERC CIP Standards and the NIST Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security. It will also summarize the relevance of the NERC CIP standards to communications systems utilized by electric utilities in general with emphasis on MW radio.
There are four main risk areas that Smart Grid's complex meter-to-cash processes exacerbate which utilities ought to address proactively.
In this Thought-leadership Series Interview, Elisabeth Brinton, Chief Business and Public Affairs Officer at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District talks about SMUD's plans to install 600,000 smart meters by 2012. Brinton outlines the advantages these meters will provide SMUD and the public, as well as the next steps toward smart grid implementation.
Digitizing As-Built Gas Utility Asset Data For GIS: Digitization involves migrating the existing asset data available in hard format to GIS. This migrated asset data is important to GIS as all the functionalities of GIS are woven around that.
