Utility Automation & Engineering™ |T&D Magazine
June 2006
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OG&E Goes Wireless with Substation Monitoring
By Scott R. Milanowski, PE, OG&E Electric Services; Mark Peterson, PE, Cannon Technologies; and Michael Cannon, PE, Cannon Technologies
Critical substation equipment must be inspected periodically to ensure system reliability and efficient operation, but the application of technology allows utilities like OG&E to go beyond periodic inspections. Available communication tools, hardware platforms, integration techniques, sensors, video web-cameras, and web access now provide the foundation for real-time substation inspection and monitoring. - download .pdf file - |
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Advanced
Voltage Control Approach Enhances Reliability And
Customer Satisfaction
By Vladi Basch, Supervisor Voltage
Quality & Testing Services
Baltimore Gas & Electric – Constellation Energy
Combining extensive substation
automation with a new wave of pager based technology for
Local Voltage Controllers, and developing new software applications,
Baltimore Gas and Electric is implementing new and unique
real-time interactive voltage controls to the entire distribution
system. This new form of asset control management is designed
to assure better voltage regulation during the most demanding
peak periods. It also maximizing asset availability of the
installed Power Factor Capacitors used to regulate voltage.
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Transmission
& Distribution World, May 2003
Substation Monitoring By the Numbers
Kansas City Power & Light develops a business case
for investing in real-time monitoring.
Kansas City Power & Light Co. has 169 substations scattered
throughout its bi-state service territory. One hundred of
these substations require a connection to the company's
energy management system (EMS).
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Presented
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Factory
Floor Information for the Energy Delivery Process
By Mike Cannon, Manager, Substation Systems
Cannon Technologies
Substation monitoring delivers information
necessary to optimize distribution efficiency, while simultaneously
identifying equipment maintenance needs and fault detail
information in real time. Browser access to substation information
allows the utility enterprise to benefit from accurate "process
information" from its "factory floor" while maintaining
the conventional SCADA/EMS as a secure, limited access control
system.
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Presented at DistribuTECH 2003
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Event-driven
versus Price-driven Demand Response
Modern Direct Control Strategies in Today's Environment
By Douglas Backer, Dir. Of Marketing, Cannon Technologies
Regulators and other policy makers are looking
at interval metering and "price responsive load management"
as the favored DR strategy, because it appears to eliminate
the need for marketing, incentives, baseline calculations,
and settlement, but it also requires more input from regulators.
This paper compares Critical Peak Pricing to alternative
solutions.
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Substation
Monitoring Via the Web
By Mike Cannon, Manager, Substation Systems
Cannon Technologies
Abstract - Substation monitoring delivers
information necessary to optimize distribution efficiency,
while simultaneously identifying equipment maintenance needs
and fault detail information in real time. Web browser access
to substation information allows the utility enterprise
to benefit from accurate "process information"
from its "factory floor" while maintaining the
conventional SCADA/EMS as a secure, limited access control
system. This presentation discusses the functions and benefits
of a web based substation information system, with integral
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RE Magazine CONNECTIONS
Supplement, October 2002
A Meter that Works for Off-Peak Rates
With summer loads that include more than 100,000
horsepower in irrigation pumps, Colorado’s Morgan County
REA had a definite need to fill demand valleys in the winter.
General Manager Fred Grantham had had good luck
with electric thermal storage (ETS) programs as member services
director at another co-op, so that was the route he took
at Morgan County REA.
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RE Magazine CONNECTIONS
Supplement, April 2002
Controlling Irrigation Loads
Denver-based Tri-State G&T Association and two of its members
are using space-age technology for a down-to-earth purpose:
aggregating and controlling irrigation loads. About 10 megawatts
of interruptible well loads were bundled into a block demand
that is constantly monitored by Tri-State dispatchers using
remote metering and control technology.
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Distribution
Automation Case Studies
Mike Cannon, Cannon Technologies
Chris Kurtz, Kansas City Power & Light, Web-based
Substation Monitoring
Rick Van Hatten, MidAmerican Energy, Centralized Feeder
Capacitor Control
Brent Richardson, Duke Energy, Customer-Owned Generation
Control
Ralph Dickinson, Xcel Energy, DA Cool Tools
Presented at DistribuTECH 2002
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Fast Acting
Load Control For System Reliability
IEEE/PES Winter Meeting, New York, N.Y., December 2001
Paper presented by Douglas Backer, Dir. of Marketing, Cannon
Technologies
Direct Communication, broadcast to a variety
of customer-premise load reduction technologies, is an effective
way to pre-empt price spikes due to congestion or supply
shortfall. With a multi-tier group addressing structure
and an open-access nationwide communication network, direct
control can be called by any of the power delivery participants
for system security, based on electrical location, geographic
location, load type, or program name. Direct control is
extremely fast-acting, and well distributed; most programs
do not require notification or customer intervention, and
in a “pool/proxy” environment, could be used by
all grid participants. - download
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NETA
WORLD, Winter 2001-2002
Let ’s Talk Technical - Substation
Monitoring System
As internet technology for substations expands, many companies
are evaluating ways to better manage their distribution
systems. One such management system is called Esubstation™,
offered by Cannon Technologies Esubstation™
is a web-enabled program that allows a utility to monitor
one or more substations through a server at the main office
of Cannon.
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Consumer Choice Through
Metering Technology:
Fantasy or Technological Reality?
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
Seattle, WA, July 2001
By Ed Cannon, President, Cannon Technologies
NARUC's members have the obligation to ensure
the establishment and maintenance of such energy utility
services as may be required by the public convenience and
necessity, and to ensure that such services are provided
at rates and conditions that are just, reasonable and nondiscriminatory
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The
Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2001
Energy Firms Use Web To Drive Down Cost
When summer arrives, people here will crank up their air
conditioners to ward off the heat. That means using electricity
-- lots of it. At Kansas City Power & Light, it is Chris
Kurtz's job to make sure the utility's 180 substations can
deliver all that juice.
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