Meeting demand for electricity is just one of the issues facing utilities today. Utilities are pushing to transform as momentum continues toward Smart Grid… The Smart Grid is an industry ...

Understanding diagnostic testing of HV Circuit Breakers is essential. When diagnostic tests are performed on HV Circuit Breakers, valuable information can be extracted. From a technical maintenance ...

In spite of all the rhetoric about “getting the lead out”, most larger North American urban centers are still maintaining some form of medium voltage underground network power distribution system ...

Market restructuring and regulatory requirements are changing the way utilities operate. At the center of industry change is the Customer Information System, often referred to as the CIS. By upgrading ...

The use of Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) as a method for determining the types of pending or occurring faults within power transformers has been in practice for many years. It has been proven that the ...

With meter data analytics, utilities are recognizing the true value of their Smart Grid investment: Data. The business world today is undergoing a swirl of change. However, amid all the uncertainty, ...

This article is based on power system simulation studies carried out by VTT Processes of Finland (a division of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland that conducts research in the area of bioenergy ...

Ethernet local area networks (LANs) are steadily gaining more acceptance in substation automation applications where the LAN has become an integral part of the protection and control system. Most ...

We are speaking with Lily Ho, Vice President of Product Management for Aclara. EET&D : We hear a lot about RF networks for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). Is Power Line Communication a viable ...

Integrating components for substation automation at a handful of substations can be achieved with custom fit solutions for each integration effort. Automation of dozens of substations, on the other ...

The importance of safe and reliable power in today’s world was never more apparent than on August 14. Beginning in late afternoon and lasting mere minutes, the largest blackout ever on the North ...

Lightning results when rising and descending air within a thunderstorm separate positive and negative charges. Water and ice particles affect the distribution of the charge, with lightning resulting ...