Utility Data Web Page Design— Learning Technologies

Authors

  • David C. Green Green Management Services, Inc. Fort Myers, Florida
  • Fangxing Li ABB Inc. Raleigh, North Carolina

Abstract

Creating web pages requires the use of at least a few of the several
technologies available to developers today. Reliable, robust, informative
and intuitive web pages displaying utility data can be created using
hypertext markup language (HTML) and common gateway interface
(CGI). Other technologies enhance the presentation and functionality of
web pages. We discuss these technologies from the viewpoint that a
great deal of application development today is undertaken through suc-
cessive revisions. We present technology descriptions, along with a
simple example of each, to get a developer started or simply for better
understanding. This is not an exhaustive guide to using each of the
technologies, but rather an “opening the door” approach. We then pro-
vide references and links to resources for further study.

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Author Biographies

David C. Green, Green Management Services, Inc. Fort Myers, Florida

David C. Green has combined experience in intranet/internet technology and database queries and has developed programming for energy information systems. David has been the president of his own consulting company, Green Management Services, Inc., since 1994. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and a Master of Arts degree in computer science. David is also a lieutenant colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard and has 18 years of military service. David has successfully completed major projects for The ABB Group, Cummins Engine Company, ECI Telematics, The M.A.R.C of the Professionals and The Illinois Army National Guard. (dcgreen@dcgreen.com)

Fangxing Li , ABB Inc. Raleigh, North Carolina

Fangxing Li is presently a senior R&D engineering at ABB Inc. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees both in electric power engineering from Southeastern University, China, in 1994 and 1997 respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech in 2001. His main experience includes development of several industryleading applications for electric power engineering, such as EPRI Distribution Engineering Workstation (DEW) for power distribution planning and analysis, ABB’s Power Distribution Optimizer (PDO) for web-based distribution reliability planning, and ABB’s GridView for energy market simulation. Dr. Li is a member of IEEE and Sigma Xi. He can be reached at fangxing.li@us.abb.com or fangxing.li@ieee.org.

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Published

2023-07-11

How to Cite

Green, D. C. ., & Li , F. . (2023). Utility Data Web Page Design— Learning Technologies. Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment, 23(4), 53–77. Retrieved from https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/SPEE/article/view/20185

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