Benefiting from IT: a guide for PUCs and utilities
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Electric utilities and public utility commissions will have to become information-based organizations to remain competitive. This, however, requires the deployment of geographic information systems to achieve better control and monitoring of their transmission and distribution infrastructure.
Publication Name: Electrical World
Subject: Electronics and electrical industries
ISSN: 0013-4457
Year: 1996
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PLCs lead the way to substation standardization, automation
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Engineers at Hawaiian Electric Co have discovered that the programmable logic control (PLC) technology is a labor-intensive method to speed up the automation of the utility's 150 substations. They are planning to use PLCs in all future substation control systems.
Publication Name: Electrical World
Subject: Electronics and electrical industries
ISSN: 0013-4457
Year: 1998
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Utilities: unsung pioneers of Internet commerce
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Gas and electric utilities have long been using the Internet ahead of other big power companies. However, they seem to be left behind because of their intensive evaluation of their capabilities and security measures before shifting into public networking.
Publication Name: Electrical World
Subject: Electronics and electrical industries
ISSN: 0013-4457
Year: 1998
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