Utility Products Magazine Articles, Jan 2012

Feature Stories
- Products of the Year
  This issue of Utility Products magazine brings you products that received the highest reader response in 2011. While all the products featured in each issue are useful and relevant to your industry, some attract more attention than others. See which products featured in the magazine caught readers’ eyes.
- Come Join Us at the Utility Products Conference & Exposition 2012
  Bringing you cutting-edge products, a robot meet-and-greet, expert industry speakers, a money machine cash giveaway and more!
Product Focus
- Transmission & Distribution
  - Composite Poles Solve Easement Issues for Utilities
    The presence of a distribution substation often is all a developer will consider when choosing a site in remote areas.
  - Predicting Failure: Furan Testing of Transformers
    Memphis Light, Gas & Water (MLGW) in Memphis, Tenn., is one of the largest three-service public power utilities in the nation.
- Alternative Power Construction
  - Contractor Helps Build Large Indiana Wind Farm
    Case loader/backhoes and excavators restore 48 square miles of drain tiles.
  - Intelligent Electronic Devices Increase Availability, Power Quality in Power Distribution Networks
    Until recently, power distribution networks have operated in a simple, unidirectional flow.
  - Solar Forecasting: The Next Big Thing For Solar Power?
    People who know about renewable energy are probably also aware of wind forecasting—workers who set up meteorological equipment to measure when, where and how strongly the wind will blow at the site of a proposed wind farm.
- Test & Measurement
  - New Method for Reducing End User Power Consumption
    Quantify power waste from harmonics and unbalance.
- Substation Management & Maintenance
  - Animal Mitigation— An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
    It’s a perfect morning in Connecticut when more than 15,000 homeowners and businesses lose power.
- S.A.F.E.@Work
  - Life Doesn’t Shout— It Just Runs Out
    On Feb. 8, 1960, Adolph Coors walked to his car and began the drive to his offices. He was now running the brewery.
Departments
- Editor's Letter
  - Check Out UPCE 2012, ‘2011 Products of the Year’ and More in This Issue!
    The fourth annual Utility Products Conference & Exposition (UPCE), taking place Jan. 24-26, 2012, in San Antonio is gearing up to bring you everything a utility worker needs to do the job—the latest products, demonstrations, training and more.
- New Products

Issue 1

Table of Contents

Utility Products Magazine

Feature Stories

Product Focus

Transmission & Distribution

Alternative Power Construction

Test & Measurement

Substation Management & Maintenance

S.A.F.E.@Work

Departments

Editor's Letter