DISTRIBUTECH International®, in partnership with S&C, is pleased to announce the first-ever Powered by Diversity Award for utilities around the world that best demonstrate achievement in the areas of diversity and inclusion within the workplace. Submit your applications for the inaugural Powered by Diversity Award by August 15, 2022, to be considered. The winner will be announced during the Powered by Diversity Luncheon on February 8, 2023. 

A new report advises that peak load hour is no longer the default riskiest time for a power system. That's especially true for systems that host a large amount of intermittent renewable energy resources.

Forced power plant outages—which are likely to stress the bulk electric power system—are likely to persist across a swath of North America that stretches from southern New Mexico to Hudson Bay.

Northern Powergrid, which provides power to 3.9 million homes and businesses in northern England, said on June 14 that it is piloting ABB’s eco-efficient Medium Voltage switchgear.

Central Maine Power said customer electric rates will dip 5.5% on July 1 as part of the company's rate reconciliation and adjustment process.

Ampaire, Black & Veatch to collaborate on expanding electrified aviation infrastructure.

The OpenDER model can be used to assess the static and dynamic behaviors of DER for planning and interconnection studies.

The Independent Market Monitor report is a powerful call to action: to increase demand-side resources and storage; to create an uncertainty product to deal with the variable nature of thermal plants (at press time, thermal generation on outage is 50% higher than the grid operator expects) and renewable generation; to finally deal with transmission constraints.

State regulators told the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) in a letter that it is time to review market signals and reliability requirements, and to enhance collaboration between MISO, the states, and other entities who they said are responsible for resource adequacy.