Hydro Ottawa, Powerstream Join North Atlantic Mutual Assistance Group

North Atlantic Mutual Assistance Group (NAMAG) comprises utilities from across northeast Canada and the U.S. that deliver not-for-profit assistance to each other during times of crisis.
Designed to increase coordination of resources and support, NAMAG empowers participating utilities to quickly action mutual assistance plans to restore power whenever and wherever assistance is needed. NAMAG utilities represent more than 36 million customers.

More specifically, benefits include:
• resource sharing — mutual assistance provides a way for utilities affected by natural or man-made hazards to request and receive emergency assistance in the form of personnel, equipment, materials, and other specialized resources and associated services
• cost effectiveness — mutual aid allows for a more efficient allocation of resources by eliminating the need for utilities to keep additional full-time staff on-hand for emergency-only situations; this also saves utilities money by not having to keep additional labour on staff for these situations
• information sharing — regional mutual assistance groups also provide a forum for discussing industry related topics, forming supportive relationships, sharing best practices, minimizing individual company risks and labour costs, setting safety expectations, and coordinating regional restoration
• emergency preparedness — these partnerships are helping to improve emergency preparedness by facilitating more collaboration as well as streamlining coordinated processes between state/provincial/federal and local governments and utilities, which can help ensure that utilities are even more prepared for the next major outage. An example of this collaboration is the streamlined process that has been developed with both the U.S. and Canadian Border Services to get utility Line staff and equipment over our respective borders more easily.

Other Canadian members include:
•   Emera
•   Hydro-One
•   Hydro Quebec
•   NB Power
•   Powerstream
•   Saint John Energy
•   Toronto Hydro

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Maryrose Sylvester Appointed United States Country Managing Director and US Head of Electrification Business

ABB CMD

ABB has appointed Maryrose Sylvester as Country Managing Director (CMD) and Head of Electrification for the United States, effective August 1, 2019.

In the CMD role, she will succeed Greg Scheu, who will support a smooth transition until his retirement at the end of October 31, 2019.

Sylvester was most recently President & CEO of “Current, powered by GE”, a GE startup business that was acquired in April by New York-based private equity firm American Industrial Partners.

NEMA and ISA Working Together on New Building Systems Cybersecurity Program

CyberSecurity During a recent Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group meeting, representatives from the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and International Society of Automation (ISA) outlined a new program to address the growing risk of unprotected and under-protected building control systems in the U.S. and abroad.

Building owners, users, and manufacturers of control systems continuously work to find practical ways to create safe and more secure environments.

IoT Challenges and Opportunities for Electrical Contractors, Part 3

IoT Electrical contractors are approaching a tipping point in terms of pursuing roles and opportunities in the growing market of smart buildings, according to Smart Buildings And Internet of Things (IoT) Impact on Electrical Contracting, a new report from Electri International. Part 1 of this 3-part series provided an overview of the IoT challenges facing electrical contractors; Part 2: opportunities. Here in Part 3: two case studies.

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