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Newton-Evans Role in Recent SMARTENERGY East Coast Conference

Chuck Newton moderated  a well-received session on Demand Side Management and Energy Efficiency Technologies for this New York City conference held on October 27th and 28th. The conference was hosted by the Spintelligent Company, publisher of Metering International. The panel members for this session included Ron Zimmer, CEO of Ottawa-based CABA – the Continental Automated Buildings Association, Bill [...]

POWERGRID Europe 2009

A Good Day in D.C. – The 2009 Annual Energy Conference

For two days (April 7 and 8) this week, The U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration held sway at the Washington DC Convention Center. This year’s 2009 Annual Energy Conference included ten panel sessions on various current energy hot topics. These sessions began following an early morning plenary session with a keynote address given [...]

2009 National Infrastructure Conference

I attended the Infrastructure 2009 Conference held in Washington D.C. last week.  This was an unexpected joy after a career that has brought me to hundreds of industry conferences around the world.  This niche conference was extremely well developed in spite of being only in the second year.

Transmission Summit 2009

The newest edition of  the Transmission Summit Conference, was held in Washington, D.C. this past week.  A rousing panel discussion on the role of the Smart Grid in the world of electric power transmission included panel members John McDonald (GE Energy T&D), Robert Moisan (The Glarus Group), Charles Newton (Newton-Evans Research Company), and Michael Oster (Grid Storage [...]

Post CIGRE 2008

Post CIGRE 2008 Report, by Gerry George, Newton-Evans Correspondant and International Editor for T&D World CIGRE’s 42nd General Session is an International Conference on Large High Voltage Electric Systems that provides a unique forum for delegates and Exhibitors from around the world which is always held in the beautiful city of Paris. It this is [...]