Transpower New Zealand re-signs exclusive managed services agreement with Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent and Transpower New Zealand have re-signed an exclusive managed services agreement for a further three years. Transpower owns and operates New Zealand’s high-voltage electricity transmission network – the national grid – linking electricity generators to distribution companies and major industrial users. Alcatel-Lucent designed, and has been building, Transpower’s IP-based, fibre optic telecommunications network since [...]
Creating your Smart Grid: a How-To Guide
In the world of electricity delivery, there’s the grid. And then there’s the smart grid. Smart is better! By enhancing the power delivery process and collecting real-time data from within the electrical grid and from consumers, utilities can operate more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before. A How-To Guide “Creating Your Smart Grid” shares numerous [...]
Differentiated services QoS in smart grid communication networks
By Jayant G. Deshpande1, Eunyoung Kim2, Marina Thottan3 In the latest paper published by Bell Labs Technical Journal, are analyzed quality of service (QoS) requirements of smart grid and other utility applications carried over an integrated Internet Protocol (IP) network. The delay allowances for the traffic flows may vary from 8 to 10ms for teleprotection [...]
Dealing with the Smart Grid’s key drivers and challenges
The Internet we depend on every day for an amazing diversity of business, recreation, social and entertainment activities has changed unimaginably from the few static websites that appeared on our browsers in 1995 or even 2000. As we now try to look forward to the full realization of the Smart Grid in the years ahead, [...]
With: K. Ballout, Vice President - Energy System Integration Division, Alcatel-Lucent - 05 Dec 2011
Protecting the smart grid with today’s solutions
The primary objective of the smart grid is securing the supply of energy and making sure that it will remain viable in the future. That means that we must keep grid itself safe from malicious attack or misuse while protecting the privacy of rich consumer data it generates. Although security considerations in the smart grid [...]
With: P. Johnson, Vice-President Smart Grid, Alcatel-Lucent - 14 Jul 2011
Smart grid security: an imperative investment for smarter control
Security concerns for the smart grid are driving investment, partnerships and government regulation worldwide, leading to substantive changes in the business models for power suppliers. Smart grid security is a cost that is increasingly recognized as an investment imperative – one that leads to greater reliability, efficiency, customer acceptance and profitability. “When the smart grid [...]
With: R. Bigliani, Head - Europe, Middle East & Africa, IDC Energy Insights - 14 Jul 2011
Altalink: Implementing an end-to-end smart grid security strategy
In 2010 Alberta’s largest electricity transmission provider, AltaLink, set out to upgrade the distribution and communications infrastructure along its 12,000 km transmission grid in western Canada. Now in the second year of a four year build, its smart grid upgrade has reached more than 65 of its 300 substations. With support for general utility SCADA [...]
With: C. Struth, Principal Engineer, Telecommunications Networking and C. Struth, Network Architect, AltaLink - 14 Jul 2011
Ensuring smart grid social acceptance by securing data privacy
The game-changing value of the smart grid is driven in large part by entirely new classes of consumption data generated by smart meters. That raises privacy concerns, since robust tools can now perform deep analysis on much richer data, revealing new levels of intelligence on customers and their personal activities. How smart grid companies and [...]
With: R. Herold, NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Privacy Group Leader and information privacy, security and compliance consultant, author and instructor - 14 Jul 2011
