NH Business Review
There are three reasons it can’t, but that’s no reason to be complacent
February 25, 2021
Whenever the lights go out, I reach for my smartphone. And it’s not to call in the outage to my electric utility.
I go straight to the phone app of our grid operator, ISO New England. Here’s what I always want to know: Is this The Big One – the entire bulk power transmission system across our six-state region brought to its knees?
So far, it’s always been something far more local – a tree making contact with a distribution line or a squirrel making mischief amid the transformers in a local substation. (The outcome is always bad for the squirrel.)
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Airbus imagery supports IBM efforts to provide vegetation insights for grid reliability
February 25, 2021 By Editor
Herndon, VA, USA, 25 February 2021 – Airbus now provides very high-resolution satellite imagery to The Weather Company, an IBM Business.
IBM uses it to help utility and energy companies better understand the state of vegetation near utility lines, in an effort to help them reduce the risks of electrical disruptions and improve overall grid reliability. A major challenge to the grid, vegetation is the leading driver of power outages according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.[1]
Very high-resolution 50cm satellite imagery from Airbus will be fed into the IBM Vegetation Management Platform, part of the IBM Weather Operations Center. This advanced technology quickly crunches enormous amounts of geospatial (satellite, drone, aerial and LIDAR), IoT sensor and weather data to provide a view over time to help understand the state of vegetation a
Dallas Fed outlook surveys indicate manufacturing, service sectors improving
Texas manufacturing and service sector activity increased in February, but the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas surveys were conducted only partly after a polar vortex prompted rolling blackouts for millions of homes and businesses, resulting in extremely high wholesale power prices along with manufacturing and service business shutdowns.
The Dallas Fed’s Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey’s production index, a key measure of economic activity, rose to 19.9 in February from January’s seasonally adjusted 4.6 and a seasonally adjusted 16.8 in February 2020. The index shows the percentage-point difference between respondents indicating increased activity and those who indicate decreased activity.
Lawmakers push regulators to reexamine compressor approval
WEYMOUTH – Members of Weymouth s congressional delegation want federal regulators to reconsider their decision to allow the compressor station on the banks of the Fore River to go into service.
U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch and U.S. Sens. Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren recently sent a letter to Richard Glick, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, asking that the commission rescind the in-service authorization issued for the compressor station in September.
“The site is located within a half mile of Quincy Point and Germantown – “environmental justice communities” that suffer persistent environmental health disparities due to socioeconomic and other factors – as well as nearly 1,000 homes, a water treatment plant and a public park,” the legislators wrote in the letter. “An estimated 3,100 children live or go to school within a mile of the site, and more than 13,000 children attend school
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