The company looks at how this is impacting several key industry issues such as asset health management and storm recovery.

Gary Rackliffe, ABB vice president of smart grids for North America, as well as other utility, industry and ABB experts, will share their insights and first-hand experiences in implementing the newest distribution grid management technologies. 

All webinars run for one hour and will run as follows:

Smart grid and tomorrow's new data centre

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 2:00 pm Eastern Time 

Webinar featuring Gary Rackliffe and Mietek Glinkowski, abb director of technology for power products and global head of technology, Data Centers 

Lessons from the real world - end-to-end asset health 

Wednesday, September 11, 2013, 1:00 pm EDT 

Webinar featuring Carey Schneider, Engineer, Asset Health Center, American Electric Power (AEP); Chris Lemay, Product Manager, Ventyx; and Gary Rackliffe.  

Leveraging AMI infrastructure for improved distribution grid management

Thursday, September 19, 2013 2:00 pm EDT 

Assembling smart grid technologies to meet distribution optimization goals 

October 10, 2013, 2:00 - 3:00 pm EDT

Grid and asset analytics: measuring for improvement in day to day operations

November 5, 2013, 2:00 - 3:00 pm EST 

Improving outage lifecycle management & storm response 

Tuesday, December 10, 2013 2:00 pm EST