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		<title>Tool Quantifies Business Value of Geospatial Network Management Solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Blevins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feb 16, 2011 1:59 PM GE Energy has published the ROI Handbook for geospatial network infrastructure management solutions: A structured approach to quantifying and delivering business value. The ROI handbook is designed to help network operators make fact-based decisions about investments in network infrastructure management solutions, gain buy-in by making the right level and pace of


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		<title>Know your DIMP? (free ESRI webinar: GIS meets Grid)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Blevins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free Webinar: Be part of the first webinar in a five-part series to explore what GIS offers to distribution integrity management programs (DIMP). This webinar provides an overview of GIS for such programs and will include a case study from one utility that has used GIS for DIMP.


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		<title>Texas&#8217; Wind Transmission Project Keeps Rolling — Wind Energy &#124; The Texas Tribune</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Blevins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kate Galbraith September 8, 2010 This is the first part in a three-part series examining Texas&#8217; $5 billion build-out of transmission lines to support wind power, which is encountering increasing opposition. Last week, to cheers from a crowded courtroom, commissioners in Denton Countyunanimously passed a resolution opposing the construction of a big new transmission line


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		<title>Smart Grid and Renewable Technologies May See Double Digit Growth in Five Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Blevins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aug 27, 2010 Renewable energy technologies, fueled by worldwide government support in the form of stimulus programs and other incentives, have improved the global economic outlook with new jobs and industry. Six will hit double digit growth in the next five years — and change our lifestyle, according to a series of market studies from


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		<title>U.S. electricity blackouts skyrocketing &#8211; CNN.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Blevins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Thom Patterson, CNN August 9, 2010 7:36 a.m. EDT &#124; Filed under: Innovation New Yorker Philip Wilentz powers his TV with a car cigarette lighter during 2003&#8242;s massive blackout. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Non-disaster U.S. power outages up 124 percent since early &#8217;90s U.S. electricity reliability low compared to some nations Experts: &#8220;Smart grid&#8221; would avert blackouts, save


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		<title>GTM Research: United States Smart Grid Policy 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Blevins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Munro munro@gtmresearch.com JULY 26, 2010 United States Smart Grid Policy 2010 IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF TEN KEY STATES DRIVING DEPLOYMENT The smart grid will be an essential component of state power scenarios as energy efficiency and renewable energy mandates proliferate across the United States.  Since 2009, the Federal government has awarded US$4.5 billion in stimulus


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		<title>Demand Response, Meet Customer Engagement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Blevins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KATHERINE TWEED: AUGUST 9, 2010 Demand Response, Meet Customer Engagement From EnergyConnect’s new DR platform to TXU Energy expanding its iThermostat program, consumer preferences are getting more play in DR. It&#8217;s hot. Gross-hot, not &#8220;let&#8217;s get outside and enjoy the sunshine!&#8221; hot. Although most of the country has recently enjoyed a brief respite from sweltering


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		<title>Report Finds 99.96% of Texas Smart Meters Accurate — Energy &#124; The Texas Tribune</title>
		<link>http://www.smartpowercommunity.com/2010/07/report-finds-99-96-of-texas-smart-meters-accurate-%e2%80%94-energy-the-texas-tribune/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Blevins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kate Galbraith July 30, 2010 A new report has found that Texas&#8217;s smart meters are accurate in 99.96 percent of cases. The report by Navigant Consulting, released today, had been commissioned by the Public Utility Commission in the wake of a crush of complaints about the meters, which are being rolled out across Texas. A class action lawsuit


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		<title>Swept Away ― How the Smart Grid Tsunami Could Destroy Utilities (And What to Do About It)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Blevins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jul 20, 2010 It’s easy to figure a strategy for surviving a tidal wave … run like hell for the high ground. . It’s more difficult to apply that thinking to the Smart Grid. We can see the wave is about to hit the shore… but which way is the high ground? Should a utility


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		<title>The Good News and Bad News about Cisco’s Smart Grid Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Blevins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jul 15, 2010 In separate stories, we’ve described how Cisco’s home energy management initiative reveals the underpinnings of the grid’s first operating system.  And how Microsoft’s bureaucratic stupidity caused it to miss this billion-dollar opportunity. I want to use this space to discuss the good and bad aspects of Cisco’s Smart Grid strategy from the utility point


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