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Cold Shoulder for Smart Grid Stimulus Actually a Vote of Confidence, Says PG&E

Posted by Derek on November 06, 2009
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Two major California utilities – Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison — were noticeably absent from the $3.4 billion in smart grid stimulus grants announced last week, despite both being widely recognized as leaders in the adoption of technologies to upgrade their networks. “More money should have come to California,” said Thomas Bailek, San Diego Gas & Electric’s chief engineer for the smart grid, while speaking at The Networked Grid conference in San Francisco yesterday.

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  Improving Smart Grid and overhead distribution reliability and the emergence of predictive technologies will be the focus of an important utility conference taking place in Columbus, Ohio, February 9-11 of 2010. The Smart Grid & Overhead Distribution Reliability Conference explores the latest reliability measures and technologies being used by utilities to prepare distribution networks for the higher standard required for Smart Grid data transmission lines. “Run-to-failure reliability strategies are incompatible with Smart Grid requirements,” declares John Lauletta, President and CEO of Exacter, Inc., one of the conference sponsors. “Clean signals for data transmission are the new standard in conjunction with minimizing outage time. I think a lot of people will be surprised at the new technologies and solutions available for eliminating line interference.” all day
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  Improving Smart Grid and overhead distribution reliability and the emergence of predictive technologies will be the focus of an important utility conference taking place in Columbus, Ohio, February 9-11 of 2010. The Smart Grid & Overhead Distribution Reliability Conference explores the latest reliability measures and technologies being used by utilities to prepare distribution networks for the higher standard required for Smart Grid data transmission lines. “Run-to-failure reliability strategies are incompatible with Smart Grid requirements,” declares John Lauletta, President and CEO of Exacter, Inc., one of the conference sponsors. “Clean signals for data transmission are the new standard in conjunction with minimizing outage time. I think a lot of people will be surprised at the new technologies and solutions available for eliminating line interference.” all day
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