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• A Useful Thing Happened on the Way to the Smart Grid: An Agile Grid

  A Useful Thing Happened on the Way to the Smart Grid: An Agile Grid

  In this fifth article in a series, Stephen Hadden and Shannon Messer discuss using AMI with SCADA to implement and operate a conservation voltage regulation program enhanced by employing distribution efficiency improvements -- known as voltage optimization.

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• Packing It In

  Packing It In

  Pre-load compactors at transfer stations can have significant environmental and financial benefits, but certain design features must be considered. Learn how to design a transfer station to accommodate pre-load compaction in this Waste Age article by Richard Lippod, Charlie Conway, and Dave Miller.

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• Distributed Generation - When Customers Are Generators

  Distributed Generation - When Customers Are Generators

  More electricity consumers are considering and implementing on-site generation as utilities are contemplating how to best incorporate distributed generation. Read more above the evolving roles of the utility and its consumer in Louis Szablya's recent article in Electric Light & Power.

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• Demanding More from DR

  Demanding More from DR

  Demand response (DR) is one of the fastest growing and most enthusiastically received programs in the smart-grid space, but both the market for participating in DR and the systems for executing it need to become more efficient for it to be successful. Learn more in a recent Public Utilities Fortnighly article by Chris McCall, Heber Weller, and Andrew Thomas.

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• LEEDing Indicators

  LEEDing Indicators

  As more and more municipalities look to preserve landfill airspace, reduce disposal costs, and work toward a "zero-waste" approach, waste diversion has become a key consideration. Read how LEED and other green building programs offer strategies for increasing waste diversion in a recent Waste Age article by Seth Cunningham and Ian Sutton.

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