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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 [...]

Newton-Evans was cited in an Automation World article titled, “Smart Grid Stimulus Funds to Provide Market Boost.” Chuck Newton was quoted as saying: “The Smart Grid eventually will be built out. But utilities never rush into anything, for the simple reason that they’ve got to keep the lights on. They can’t take it out of [...]

by Charles Newton The financial environment and economic outlook darken many segments of the national and global economies. Will the electric power industry significantly scale back planned capital expenditures and operations and maintenance spending on transmission and distribution automation? To find the answer, we conducted a global study of capital-expense budgets. This article is featured [...]

An article by Chuck Newton titled Better Leverage SCADA: Systems Expand to Support New Challenges and Needs was featured in the first issue of Energy Central’s newest serial, Intelligent Utility magazine. This new publication focuses on Smart Grid topics. From the website: “The magazine addresses core smart grid components, including distribution automation, substation automation, smart [...]

Article by Kathleen Davis, Associate Editor of Utility Automation & Engineering T&D magazine. Several references to Newton-Evans research findings on the Russian electric power industry.  Read the full article online here.

Article by Kevin Costin, Management Systems Solutions Specialist, Oracle. This article cites many findings from Newton-Evans’ 2007 study of Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration (FLISR, also referred to as FDIR.) Read the full article online here. (Opens in new window)

Newton-Evans was recently cited in Utility Automation & Engineering T&D, April 09, 2008 Click here to read the full article (website opens in a new window.)

Newton-Evans was recently cited in the January 2008 edition of Utility Automation & Engineering T&D Magazine, which is available online here (link opens in a new window.) The article, titled “Getting Equipped: No Single Bullet Wounded the World Transformer Market,” discusses the reasons for increasing transformer costs in the electric power industry. We invite visitors [...]