AREVA Blog - North America

Browse by Tags

• AREVA
• AREVA Group Supervisory Board
• AREVA Inc.
• AREVA North America
• Barack Obama
• Carbon Emissions
• Department of Energy
• Distribution
• e-terradistribution
• Florida
• Florida Power and Light
• Green Jobs
• GridWeek
• Jean Cyril Spinetta
• Joe Adamoli
• Joe Biden
• Lawrence E. Jones
• Loan Guarantees
• Microsoft
• News
• Nuclear Energy
• Nuclear Power
• Nuclear Power Plants
• Ohio
• PJM Interconnection
• RB Watkins
• Recovery Act
• Renewable Energy
• Smart Electric News
• Smart Grid
• Smart Grids
• Static VAR Compensator
• Transmission
• Transmission & Dist.
• Transmission & Distribution
• Transmission and Distribution

• Biden Report Says Clean Energy Programs Creating Jobs

  by Jarret Adams p>According to a report by Vice President Joe Biden, the administration’s clean energy programs are expected to help create some 700,000 jobs. He said that the $787 billion Recovery Act is helping spur investment in new clean energy technologies, including wind, solar, energy efficiency and perhaps even nuclear energy. According to the ABC [...] Read More... Posted Dec 15 2009, 02:30 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., Green Jobs, Nuclear Power Plants, Department of Energy, Loan Guarantees, Smart Grid, AREVA T&D, Recovery Act, Joe Biden

• Making Wind Energy Smarter

  by Katherine Berezowskyj If you are going to be at the GridWeek conference in our nation’s capital this week, be sure to check out booth #103. Here, AREVA’s Transmission & Distribution (T&D) division is demonstrating its unique system for integrating its Smart Grid technologies and renewable power generation. AREVA’s Smart Grid Suite, which includes [...] Read More... Posted Sep 23 2009, 10:55 AM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., Department of Energy, Smart Grid, AREVA T&D, Transmission & Distribution, Transmission & Dist., GridWeek

• RB Watkins – A New Member of the AREVA Family

  By Katherine Berezowskyj Today we would like to spotlight another integral part of AREVA family here in North America─ RB Watkins, a transformer field services company based in Stow, Ohio. Founded in 2004, the company joined the AREVA group in December 2008 and is now part AREVA’s Transmission & Distribution subsidiary. RB Watkins [...] Read More... Posted Sep 02 2009, 04:50 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA, AREVA T&D, Transmission & Dist., Ohio, RB Watkins

• AREVA’s Board Makes Decisions to Shape the Future

  Considering the future of AREVA, the group’s Supervisory Board met and finalized the next steps of the group’s plans (press release). As the world leader in the nuclear power industry, AREVA has witnessed a major increase in demand for CO2-free energy solutions. At the same time, AREVA has exciting goals for the future—both [...] Read More... Posted Jun 30 2009, 03:10 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., News, Carbon Emissions, AREVA T&D, AREVA Group Supervisory Board, Jean Cyril Spinetta

• Strategic Alliance-PJM and AREVA T&D Working for Smarter Grid Solutions

  Recently the Transmission & Distribution division of AREVA and PJM Interconnection made some “smart” moves forming a strategic alliance to better address to challenges of “smarter” transmission grids for the northeastern United States. The two organizations already have several years of success working together and will now be engaged in improving system resiliency and efficiency [...] Read More... Posted Jun 15 2009, 10:22 AM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., Smart Grid, AREVA T&D, Transmission & Dist., PJM Interconnection

• Lawrence E. Jones of AREVA T&D on Smart Grids

  Back in December 2008, Lawrence E. Jones of AREVA T&D published an editorial in Smart Electric News entitled “Renewable Energy Systems, Electric Vehicles, and Smart Electricity Grids for a Carbon-Constrained World.” In that article, he lays out some of the challenges of the road ahead for the energy industry - including the need to [...] Read More... Posted May 26 2009, 07:38 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., Smart Grid, AREVA T&D, Transmission & Distribution, Smart Electric News, Lawrence E. Jones, Transmission & Dist.

• AREVA Extends Smart Grid Collaboration with Microsoft

  By Jarret Adams AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) division has announced that it has extended its three-year collaboration with Microsoft for the development of Smarter Grid Management solutions, so the global power industry can manage electricity demand more efficiently. AREVA and Microsoft already provide AREVA customers with some key capabilities for managing the grid. Under [...]... Posted May 13 2009, 03:58 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA, Nuclear Energy, News, Smart Grid, AREVA T&D, Transmission and Distribution, Smart Grids, Microsoft

• Image of the Day

  Here’s a great diagram of how AREVA’s Smart Grid technology works… Read More... Posted May 04 2009, 04:15 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., Smart Grid, AREVA T&D, Transmission and Distribution

• “Smart Grid” Poised to Change the Way People Get and Use their Power

  by Joe Adamoli If you were in parts of the U.S. and Canada on August 14, 2003, you were probably very confused, very inconvenienced, and very uncomfortable. That was the day a cascading power outage plunged approximately 50 million people into darkness and cost the economy of both nations $6 billion dollars. The blackout represented another milestone [...] Read More... Posted May 01 2009, 12:47 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., Smart Grid, AREVA T&D, Transmission and Distribution, Static VAR Compensator

• Florida Power and Light Goes Live With AREVA T&D’s Distribution System

  by Joe Adamoli A production version of the AREVA T&D Integrated Distribution Management System based on e-terradistribution® software recently went live at Florida Power and Light Company. Florida Power and Light Company is one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the United States. AREVA was chosen by FPL to provide a Transmission Energy Management System [...] Read More... Posted Apr 20 2009, 03:11 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., AREVA T&D, Joe Adamoli, Distribution, Transmission, Florida, e-terradistribution, Transmission and Distribution, Florida Power and Light, Transmission & Distribution

• AREVA Well Positioned to Advance Smart Grid Initiatives

  We’d like to congratulate the Obama administration on their announcement yesterday to fund “smart grid” initiatives to develop a more efficient and secure electrical grid. We’re going to actively support the administration’s initiative by working with customers to demonstrate and deploy smart grid technology. As you may know, AREVA is a leader in the United [...] Read More... Posted Apr 17 2009, 03:53 PM by AREVA Blog - North America Filed under: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, AREVA North America, AREVA Inc., News, Renewable Energy, Department of Energy, Barack Obama, Smart Grid, AREVA T&D