The volume of data generated by the smart grid threatens to drown utilities, who have yet to figure out what to do with the information or how to store it, according to industry experts. “It’s generating terabytes of data,” said a representative of the Electric Power Research Institute at a panel discussion at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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PPL to Sell Montana Hydro Plants
NorthWestern Energy will buy 11 hydroelectric plants from PPL Montana – the same power-producing dams that NorthWestern’s predecessor, Montana Power Co., sold in the wake of deregulation almost 15 years ago. NorthWestern said it agreed to buy the 11 dams along five separate Montana rivers for $900 million, subject to approval by state and federal regulators.
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FirstEnergy Slates Major Work at PA, OH Nuclear Plants
FirstEnergy Corp. plans to spend several hundred million dollars to replace the steam generator and reactor vessel head at its Beaver Valley Unit 2 reactor, in Pennsylvania, in 2017. It also plans to replace the two steam generators at its Davis-Besse plant in Ohio in February during a longer-than-normal refueling outage.
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Barbas Joins Pepco Board
Pepco Holdings Inc. named former Dayton Power and Light Co. CEO Paul M. Barbas to its board of directors. Barbas is also a former chief operating officer of Chesapeake Utilities Corp. and executive vice president of Allegheny Power.
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