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Smarten Up Your OMS
White Paper - Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS)
With the estimated annual cost of outages to be more than $150 billion in the United States alone, reduction of this significant economical impact is important. To help manage the grid during service interruptions, nearly every distribution utility uses an Outage Management System (OMS). The OMS is a valuable tool for cutting costs — both for the utility and its rate payers.
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Abengoa and BrightSource Energy agreed to jointly develop, build, and operate what the companies say will be the world’s two largest solar power towers. GE began operating a prototype of what it calls the world’s most efficient high-output wind turbine. Hawaiian Electric Co. dedicated the new 5-MW Kalaeloa solar farm in West Oahu, Hawaii. And more...
The importance of energy, grid, and market transformation
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(February 2013) LA and Burbank enter 250 MW PPA with Sempra’s Copper Mountain Solar 3 project; ABB wins $225 million turnkey PV project contracts; NextEra acquires 165-MW Cimarron I wind project; PG&E builds gas pipeline control center; ITC energizes 227-mile transmission line in Midwest; plus contracts and announcements from Survalent, Landis+Gyr, Dell, DNV, Sensus, Itron, Elster, Ameresco, Constellation, Duke, People’s Natural Gas, and others.
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