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August 2, 2010. Well, it was inevitable that GE would make a play for a larger share of the global EMS/SCADA/DMS market and today the company announced the acquisition of the Montreal-based Energy Control Systems business unit of SNC Lavalin. With this acquisition, Newton-Evans believes GE Energy now ranks fourth in the world in terms [...]

EMS, SCADA, DMS Study. The first volume (North America) of this expansive four-volume study will be released in July. We have already surpassed the levels of participation obtained in the past two studies, with more than 100 mid-size to TOP 10 electric power utilities providing their control systems usage patterns and plans. Meanwhile, the international [...]

Very Large Power Transformer Industry: Well, wouldn’t you know it, now that EFACEC has opened the first major new transformer plant in the U.S. in decades, there is more to come. First, the leading India-based transformer manufacturer, Crompton-Greaves, has just opened a new large transformer facility in Missouri. Now word is that Hyundai will construct [...]

June 21, 2010 update. This interim client summary is based on tabulations of 65 survey completions from very large, large and mid-size North American utilities, together accounting for about 20% of served end-users. Bold print indicates a change from the preliminary findings released on June 14. These observations on some of the key topics covered [...]

By Charles W. Newton, Newton-Evans Research Company, Inc. (Updated May 7) The May 2010 announcement of the ABB acquisition of Atlanta-based Ventyx is likely to serve as a wake-up call to the major competitors of ABB in the electric power T&D and operational smart grid market, primarily the likes of Areva T&D, GE and Siemens. This [...]

A Look at Commercial Aviation’s Cornerstone Operations Control System to Provide Regional and Nationwide Operations Management for Electric Power I want to take this opportunity to provide our web site visitors and our Market Trends Digest readers (upcoming spring 2010 edition) with some summary information about what we believe to be one of the country’s most [...]

Tracking Study Finds Increased 2010 CAPEX and O&M Budgets for Smart Grid-Related Automation and Transmission Categories February 25, 2010 —Ellicott City, Maryland. The Newton-Evans Research Company today announced the publication of its third study in the multi-year tracking research program looking into electric power utility CAPEX budgets related to smart grid investments and infrastructure spending [...]

After months of internal debate and consideration of proposals from GE and Toshiba, Areva’s top tier of executives have decided to keep the $7 billion-plus T&D business under French control. AREVA’s Supervisory Board met on November 30, 2009 to examine the bids. After review, the Supervisory Board asked the Executive Board to begin exclusive negotiations [...]

As many regular readers of Newton-Evans’ reports already know, there are three major contenders for the $7 billion Transmission and Distribution business units of Areva Corporation. These are the American firm General Electric, the French corporate combination of Alstom and Schneider Electric, and the Japanese company, Toshiba. Newton-Evans Research believes the greatest benefit to the [...]

An article by Newton-Evans CEO Charles Newton titled Thinking Smart: The Outlook for Spending on Smart Grid Technologies in 2009 and Beyond was recently featured in Volume 9 of the Energy and Utilities Project magazine, an mThink publication sponsored by IBM. The majority of the article summarized the spending outlook for eight major components of [...]