Episode #7 | On the DTECH 2019 Show Floor with Teresa Hansen
Live from the DistribuTECH 2019 show floor: Host Ron Chebra interviews Teresa Hansen, Vice President of Content at Clarion Events and Chair of the advisory committee for DistribuTECH. What's her take on the buzzwords and hot topics from this year's show and what's Clarion's goals for DTECH 2020.
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A Publication from our CESI Partner:
CESI's publication of The Energy Journal’s issue n.13 is entirely dedicated to America. The Energy Journal focuses on the continent as a whole, with all its deep diversities and enormous potential, in order to delineate an energy scenario as complete and up-to-date as possible.
From smart cities to grid modernization, from electric mobility to the fight against climate change: America is facing different challenges wi...
How Augmented Reality Will Impact Utilities: EnerNex Vice President Moderates Panel Discussion at the 2019 DistribuTECH
Knoxville, Tenn., USA, February 5, 2019 —EnerNex, a CESI company leader of engineering, consulting, and research services to the electric power industry, today announced its Vice President of Grid Modernization Ron Chebra will moderate a panel centered around augmented reality for intelligent assisted asset management at DistribuTECH co...
The Next Steps for Vehicle2Grid
Published January 24, 2019 | Energy Central Online
Author: Sean Morash, Consultant, EnerNex
Energy storage has been dubbed the silver bullet to the modernization and diversification of our electricity system.[1] Storage can take a host of forms, but the stationary lithium-ion battery appears to have the most hype at the moment. The hype cycle and a certain eccentric billionaire at its center are bringing energy sto...
Cost Benefit Analysis – Science or Art?
Published February 3, 2019 | Electric Light & Power
Author: Ron Chebra, Vice President of Grid Modernization, EnerNex
Frequently, the cost benefit analyses (CBA) for utility smart grid investments have a number of foundational rigors that certainly have a strong level of science around them. A fact-based analysis is often a reasonably well-crafted exercise that can help forecast the total cost of owners...
Do Team Building Exercises Work?
By: Ron Chebra, VP of Grid Modernization
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A few years ago, I had the opportunity to participate in an off-site team building exercise in Belgium. Upon reflecting on the particular challenge presented, I made the link to the meaningfulness of that very activity and the workplace.
First, let me describe the challenge.
In short: Find a tree that ...
EnerNex performed work under an agreement with EPRI to provide updates to the DNP3 specification and application note to define the communication protocols with distributed energy resources (DER) including energy storage and solar generation. The resulting collaborative work done by EnerNex, Modular Energy Storage Architecture Standards Alliance (MESA), the DNP User Group, the SunSpec Alliance and Xanthus Consulting that was also funded in part by the Cali...
EnerNex Showcases Expanded Brand Footprint and Services Portfolio at the 2019 DistribuTECH Conference and Exhibition
Company’s first exhibition since its strategic partnership with CESI to broaden service offerings, expertise for North American utilities and the energy community worldwide
Released via BusinessWire
Knoxville, Tenn., USA, January 14, 2019 —EnerNex, a leader of engineering, consulting, and research services to the electric power indu...
The Many Faces of FLISR
The basic idea of FLISR is to quickly identify the location of a fault and then isolate the faulted area as tightly as possible
Rick Wornat, Aaron Snyder | Jan 11, 2019
Published in T&D World
As a means to improve distribution system reliability, FLISR (fault location, isolation, and service restoration) is a potentially powerful capability being implemented by many utilities. In a 2014 Department of Energy study of fi...
Episode #6 | Cost Benefit Analysis – Science or Art?
Take a listen as EnerNex Vice President of Grid Modernization Ron Chebra along with special guest Mark Everette, CEO of MWE Consulting, explore the nuances and challenges of building a solid and defensible Cost Benefit Analysis for grid modernization investments. Given the track record of a number of programs, regulators and others are asking for more concrete evidence of investment efficacy. As a r...
