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AEP Bolsters Transmission Business With Leadership Shakeup

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Power utilities are beginning to focus more attention on transmission as the aging system tries to keep up with increasing renewable energy generation as well forecasts for increased overall demand for electricity.

Giant power company American Electric Power announced last week that it was restructuring some of its executive leadership to reflect a renewed commitment to transmission projects both within and outside its power generation region. Among the changes, AEP’s SVP of Transmission, Michael Heyeck, will also become president of Electric Transmission America, a joint venture of AEP and MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, effective January 1, 2012. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 19, 2011 at 3:30 PM

Entergy To Merge Its Transmission Business With ITC Holdings

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Entergy will divest its transmission business into a newly-formed entity, Mid South TransCo, which will then be merged with ITC Holdings to form the nation’s largest independent transmission company, the companies announced today.

Though the last few decades have seen mergers among power utilities that do everything from generation and transmissions to disaster repair and customer service as they seek operating scale, today’s deal underlines a countervailing trend toward specialization as companies seek investment capital and clearer regulatory signals. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 5, 2011 at 1:00 PM

How To Manage 150,000 Meters With A Staff Of Zero

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What if you could get all the benefits of advanced metering without buying a single meter or hiring a single person? That’s the proposition put forth by SAIC’s “Smart Grid as a Service.”

The $11 billion, McLean, VA-based contractor provides a wide range of information technology services. It does about 90% of its business with the government and the balance with private industry. SAIC has decades of experience serving the defense industry. That gives it deep expertise in security, large databases and complex event processing. Although not as well-known as some of its competing systems integrators, SAIC also has a lot of energy and utility experience. For instance, SAIC manages a large swatch of Entergy’s operations. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 11, 2011 at 3:30 PM

Despite Impending Court Ruling, Entergy Refuels Vermont Yankee

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For 25 days, the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant was staffed round the clock by 850 craft workers in addition to its usual staff as they replaced about a third of the plant’s fuel assemblies.

Entergy was refueling the plant for the twenty-ninth time since it was built in 1972, a process that was completed on November 3. Meanwhile, a court case brought by Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin against the plant remains pending in court. If the state wind the case, the nuclear plant will be shut down again by March 2012. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 7, 2011 at 6:00 AM

Zeroing In On Northeast Nat Gas Controversy

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New York is becoming the center of the next battleground in an ongoing controversy over the use of hydraulic fracturing in natural gas reserve development.

Norse Energy applied to New York Department of Environmental Conservation for permission to use hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus and Utica horizontal shale wells in New York on July 14. If approved, the wells would add to the 14,000 wells already active within the state. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 27, 2011 at 6:00 AM
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