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MPLampS: Electricity Over IP (with An MPLS Control Plane)
White Papers Mostly Pointless Lamp Switching (MPLampS) is an architecture for carrying electricity over IP (with an MPLS control plane). According to our marketing department, MPLampS has the potential to dramatically lower the price, ease the distribution and...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Electricity Distributor ETSA Utilities, Simplifies Connections With SAP NetWeaver
White Papers ETSA Utilities wanted to simplify the request process for new connections, metering changes, service alterations, system augmentation or permanent removal of electricity supply and reduce turn around time and handling time on such requests.
[February 20, 2008, 0:02]
The Deregulation Of Electricity
White Papers Deregulation will be more beneficial to large users of electricity than small (residential) users. In order to purchase electricity on a competitive basis the purchaser must have an extensive understanding of how and when the facility uses energy.
[July 12, 2005, 0:00]
IBM Looks To Bridge Worlds Of IT And Electricity
News IBM's top hardware executive, William Zeitler, will deliver a keynote speech at a large utility industry conference to make the case for bridging the worlds of IT and electricity. We want to challenge the [electricity] industry to stop thinking...
[June 16, 2008, 9:22]
Statistical Approaches To Electricity Price Forecasting
White Papers In this paper, a variety of modeling approaches are applied and evaluated for forecasting electricity prices. Historically, price forecasting has been performed with least-cost optimization models. These models compute marginal cost based on...
[October 13, 2005, 3:00]
Turkish Electricity Distributor Raises Collection Rates 10 Per Cent With New Infrastructure
White Papers TEDAS is the sole electricity distributor in Turkey. To ensure its premier status for the future, the company needed to overhaul its existing subscriptions, billing, and payments infrastructure. The solutions were expensive to manage, suffered data...
[September 5, 2007, 1:00]
Oracle Case Study: Assam State Electricity Board
White Papers Established in 1958, Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB) is responsible for the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity to more than 1.2 million industrial and residential customers across the state of Assam in northeast India.
[March 7, 2006, 23:00]
Romande Energie Increases Operational Efficiency In Preparation For Swiss Electricity Market Deregulation
White Papers The challenge was to provide better - and faster - information to customers calling with inquiries about their electricity supply. Romande Energie wanted to reduce the amount of time-wasting manual work caused by employees copying geographical and...
[December 8, 2006, 0:00]
Power-hungry PCs Waste £61m In Electricity
News The 200 companies collectively waste in excess of £61m of electricity per year - around 2.8m kWh of energy. The largest of those 200 companies could save as much as £2m from their annual electricity bill, according to the study.
[May 12, 2006, 10:05]
Vattenfall AB Revitalizes Electricity Trade And Decreases Expenses By 75%
White Papers Vattenfall AB wanted to improve performance and stability of business-critical Web-based electricity trade applications and streamline and improve risk management in the electricity trade and portfolio management.
[February 9, 2008, 0:17]
Mercury Solutions Help TXU Australia Power Ahead In The Gas And Electricity Market
White Papers The challenge faced by the client was to be able to respond to the speed of change in the competitive gas and electricity markets without creating disruptions to customer or network management. The solution implemented was Mercury Interactive's...
[September 20, 2005, 0:00]
Market Settlement And Transfer Solution Powers Competition For Retail Electricity In Australia
White Papers With the introduction of Full Retail Competition in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) and the deregulated market expanding from 18,000 to a potential 7.7 million customers, NEMMCO's existing systems and processes were insufficient.
[May 4, 2006, 0:00]
Sweet-toothed Bugs Generate Electricity
News According to a report in October's Nature Biotechnology magazine, researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst have persuaded mud-dwelling bacteria to generate electricity from sugar. Although the new process is efficient -- up to 83...
[September 8, 2003, 16:35]
ISO New England Monitors The Wholesale Electricity Market With SAS
White Papers Responsible for keeping the lights on from Eastport, Maine to Westport, Connecticut, ISO New England is the not-for-profit corporation that manages the 31,000-megawatt bulk electric transmission and generation system for all of New England.
[December 27, 2006, 0:00]
Intel: Looking Out For Your Electricity Bill
News Multicore chips and power-saving tech will be key themes for Intel going forward
[December 6, 2005, 14:35]
Power Corporation Develops New System To Streamline Delivery Of Electricity
White Papers Korea Electric Power COrporation (KEPCO) has developed and operated Distribution Automation System (DAS) to achieve its goal of supplying the best quality electric power. Initially, KEPCO experimented with an Oracle DB-based system built with Alpha...
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
Field Service Engineers Improve Productivity And Customer Service With Hand-Held Tablet Solution
White Papers Operating and managing licensed water, wastewater and electricity distribution network assets in the north west of England, United Utilities provides services to 35 suppliers of electricity, gas and water to nearly three million homes and...
[October 4, 2003, 0:00]
ERCOT Teams With Accenture To Gain Better Intelligence On The Texas Electric Power Market
White Papers The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) was given only 15 months to create a new wholesale electricity market structure and a new retail market infrastructure, as well as help develop the processes that would enable the ERCOT staff to...
[December 15, 2003, 1:23]
Promoting Safety In Nuclear Installations
White Papers The nuclear share of total electricity production ranges from about 20 percent in the Czech Republic and United States to nearly 78 percent in France and Lithuania. Worldwide, nuclear power generates about 16% of the total electricity.
[December 28, 2004, 2:00]
Stanwell Corp. Ltd. Analyzes Critical Information In Real Time
White Papers As one of Queensland's key providers of reliable electricity from coal-fired, hydroelectric, wind- and gas-turbine plants, Stanwell Corp. SCL) had to find a solution for crunching numbers and assessing market fluctuations on the fast-paced...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
