The Smart Grid Horizon: From a Distribution Automation Vantage Point

Originally Broadcast: June 16, 2009
Overview:
The smart grid is looming on the horizon. Many people relate the smart grid to advanced metering, home automation and energy efficiency. While these are certainly a part of what the smart grid offers, they are by no means all the areas covered by the smart grid.
Distribution automation is a major player in smart grid development. Utilities are developing and enabling advanced applications ...

 

Utilities Exclusive: Performance Analytics - Next Generation Dashboards...Now

Originally Broadcast: June 10, 2009
Overview:
Understanding and evaluating performance is critical to financial and operational success for any utility organization. However, all too often, organizations find there just isn’t a good way to consolidate, visualize, and share this vital information.

Evidence suggests that those days are over. Today, the most competitive organizations are realizing the benefits of user-friendly, ...

 

Cut Costs Through Streamlined Bill Presentment and Payment

Originally Broadcast: April 30, 2009
Overview:
Today's savvy customers expect online bill presentment and payment options - including the flexibility to make one time payments or enroll in a recurring payment program. As a utility, if you're not already offering this convenience, you may not be meeting your customers' needs. In tough economic times, electronic presentment and payment represents a significant opportunity for utilities ...

 

Two Views of the Future Smart Grid

Originally Broadcast: March 3, 2009
Overview:
Electric Light & Power and Utility Automation and Engineering T&D magazines will present a free, 60-minute Web cast for utility professionals interested in learning the latest on implementing smart grid programs. Each of the presenters in this Web cast will provide information about his company's plans to build a smart grid.

 

Enable Your Intelligent Grid with the Smart Energy Alliance

Originally Broadcast: February 24, 2009
Overview:
The Smart Energy Alliance (SEA), comprised of Capgemini, Cisco, GE Energy, HP, Intel, and Oracle, has been working with utilities and other stakeholders to write the next chapter of the utility transmission and distribution industry to take them from "smart energy" roadmap to reality.

The SEA will demonstrate how an intelligent grid comes to life by:

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  Solving the Energy Sector's Risk and Compliance Challenges

  Originally Broadcast: January 27, 2009
  Overview:
  The nature of enterprise risk and compliance is becoming more varied and complex with each passing year. This is especially true in the energy sector, where a sustainable compliance program requires meeting not only Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and other general regulations, but also the growing and changing standards and regulations specific to energy, such as those from the North American ...
  
   

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  Clean Coal: Our Generation Bridge to the Future?

  Originally Broadcast: November 18, 2008
  Overview:
  Coal provides more than 50 percent of the US generation fleet; however, climate change concerns and possible greenhouse gas regulations coupled with escalating costs for new plants has created uncertainty about its role in the generation future. The experts in this Web cast will discuss the economics and financing of new coal plant construction, the possibilities and progress of IGCC ...
  
   

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  Advanced Metering: California Dreaming is Becoming a Reality

  Originally Broadcast: August 19, 2008
  Overview:
  The electric meter, often referred to as the electric utility's cash register, has long been an under-appreciated piece of utility infrastructure. But with the advent of advanced metering infrastructure, electric meters are taking on more important roles. They're becoming the foundation for the "smart grid of the future." And utilities are investing heavily. In this new environment, ...
  
   

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  Autodesk Solutions for Utilities

  Originally Broadcast: July 29, 2008
  Overview:
  Manage your Utility Infrastructure more efficiently with integrated design, geospatial and asset information.
  
  In this on-demand webcast Alan Saunders and Pete Southwood will show you how AutoCAD® Map 3D is a better AutoCAD for utilities with tools that help you clean up and classify data from multiple sources to create basemaps, easily standardize data, reduce drafting ...