Author Archives: Smart Energy Alliance

Issues Driving Utility Transformation

CEATI Distribution Utility Technology Roadmap 2025 report

The CEATI Distribution Utility Technology Roadmap 2025 report, The fourth report (5057-B “Common Infrastructure”) was completed in this project in October of 2007. The series now totals more than 800 pages of material, 200 technologies and more than a dozen communications mediums. More than 100 utilties have been involved in this project over the last [...]

Solutions Brief: What Happens When A Car Hits a Pole?

The Smart Energy Alliance also published "What Happens When A Car Hits a Pole?" solution brief at DistribuTech 2006 to demonstrate the future of deploying utility solutions that improve the integration of key emerging utility technologies by using an architecture roadmap focused on modularity and flexibility.

SEA Backgrounder

For the Smart Energy Alliance launch at DistribuTech 2006, the SEA Backgrounder was created to explain how the Smart Energy Allianceā„¢ brings comprehensive, coordinated expertise to key utility challenges. The result? Technology solutions that deliver transforming value while mitigating risk and problems.

Integrated Contractors

In 1970 almost everyone who worked on the grid worked for the utility, they were employees and they had the knowledge and the trust of the company to do the work. As the post world war II workforce retired and was replaced the industry went through a period of learning the grid all over again. [...]

Forecasting

In todays world, using yesterdays forecasting technology may not be the right answer. In most of the world, forecasting is done top down. The data did not exist to do any other method of forecasting in the past. Monitoring sites like the CalISO and the IESO shows that while for a whole market top down [...]