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November 2003 -
PCS UtiliData's AdaptiVolt™ technology was featured in the November 2003 issue
of Rural Electric Magazine, as one of the "ten technologies that will
change the way electric utilities do business in 2004."
November 17, 2003 -
The November 2003 issue of
Managing Automation features a letter to
the editor by Tom Wilson, president of PCS UtiliData, written in response to an
earlier article about the August blackout.
November 12, 2003 -
PCS
UtiliData announces results from a year-long test of its AdaptiVolt™ system at Inland Power & Light Company in Spokane, Washington.
November 12, 2003 -
PCS UtiliData was one of the six companies invited to take part in the "Poised
for Profit II: Smart Energy" press conference in Seattle, Washington. The
companies present at this event were selected to represent the Pacific Northwest
corridor, which encompasses the states of Washington and Oregon, as well as the
province of British Columbia.
Smart Energy is defined as using
digital technology to make electricity generation, transmission, distribution
and use more reliable and efficient. PCS UtiliData exhibited its AdaptiVolt™.
The AdaptiVolt™ system technology has been
deployed operationally with great success as an energy conservation method that
yields the most value for money while protecting the environment and affording
the best capacity building capability in the market place today
A Smart Energy: Economic
Opportunities for the Northwest" public forum and panel was also held in
Portland, Oregon on November 13, 2003. These events were sponsored in part by
the Bonneville Power Administration, the Smart Energy Business Alliance, Climate
Solutions, the Portland Business Alliance, the City of Seattle Office of
Economic Development and the Athena Institute.
November 4, 2003
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PCS UtiliData deploys its AdaptiVolt™ system
at Avista Utilities.
October 30, 2003 -
AdaptiVolt™
is featured in the EDA's (Electricity Distributor's Association
of Ontario), "The
Distributor," as one of several Demand Side Management technologies
that could potentially help Ontario meet its electricity demand.
October 16, 2003 -
Tom Wilson, PCS UtiliData's president, will be participating in a DistribuTECH panel discussion entitled,
"Raising the Bar for Volt and VAr: Experiences in Centralized Volt/VAr Control,"
on January 21, 2004 at 3:00 PM. The panel will be moderated by
Nokhum Markushevich of UCI. Other presenters will be Wally Pitts of RCCS,
Daniel Goodrich of SRP, and Don Gilbert P.E. of JEA. Tom will be
discussing AdaptiVolt™ and his paper, "Demand Side
Management and Energy Conservation Using Distribution Automation Technologies."
August 27, 2003 - In
the August 2003 issue of Control Magazine, Dan Hebert, P.E. looks at the licensing of control system integrators in an article entitled, "Should System Integrators Be Licensed."
June 20, 2003 -
Everett Naval Station (the home port of the USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft
Carrier), PCS UtiliData engineering staff have begun the AdaptiVolt™ Survey and the Communication Propagation Survey of the Everett
Naval Station. This consists of the first phase which prepares the deployment of AdaptiVolt™ system technology.
May 2003 - A PCS UtiliData Graphic User Interface (GUI) developed for the
Cooper Form 6 Re-closers at Clatskanie PUD is featured in the in the May issue
of Cooper Power's publication,
The Line.
May 9, 2003
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Flathead Electric Cooperative awarded PCS UtiliData with a contract to
integrate two substations into their existing SCADA system.
April 4, 2003
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The 2003 Western Protective Delivery Automation Conference was a huge
success.
Art Robare, Operations and Engineering
Superintendent of Clatskanie PUD, presented a paper co-authored
with Thomas Wilson, PCS UtiliData President, entitled,
Clatskanie People’s
Utility District – SCADA System. The paper discusses the UtiliData® SCADA system recently installed at the PUD.
James Michaelis, PE, one of PCS UtiliData’s
senior engineers presented a paper entitled,
CCVT Monitoring with
Remote Diagnostics.
January 24, 2003
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The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance approved a 2.8 million dollar project
for implementing and testing Conservation Voltage Regulation in the Pacific
Northwest.
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