To improve emergency response operations, utilities across the United States and Canada are increasingly adopting the Incident Command System (ICS). Given what appears to be the increasing severity of ...

Carl Potter and Deb Potter No Such Thing as Collateral Damage Annually, 75 to 80 workers die from fatal injuries in the electric utility industry. A large number of these deaths are due to electrical ...

In a rapidly evolving utility landscape, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) has emerged as an attractive solution for organizations seeking to enhance connectivity and transform their ...

Remote monitoring of substation equipment is used to take advantage of present information technology to reduce operating costs while loading that equipment closer to nameplate ratings and deferring ...

Many people assume the Smart Grid is a revolutionary change to the operation of the electric grid. In reality, it is an incremental step in the long evolution of adding automation to the electric grid ...

“Energy efficiency” is the latest buzz phrase since the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT) was signed in August. Both short- and long-term projections indicate the era of "cheap energy" is gone in ...

Introduction Successfully implementing Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) capabilities and related Meter Data Management Systems (MDMS) is even more challenging than a typical utility project. While ...

Case Study: Using Zones and Conduits to Secure a Distributed Electronic Security Perimeter (ESP) By Eric Byres A large utility had an agreement with several industrial customers to buy and sell power.

Loading capability of power transformers is limited mainly by winding temperature. As part of acceptance tests on new units, the temperature rise test is intended to demonstrate that, at full load and ...

The independent study, conducted by E Source, surveyed over 2,700 customers across small, midsize, and large businesses.E Source, a utilities-focused consulting ...

RenewableUK's latest Offshore Wind EnergyPulse Insights report shows that the global capacity of fully operational offshore wind farms has reached 80.9 gigawatts (GW), up from 70.2GW twelve months. . ...

Highlights Hitachi Energy to enable delivery of 950 km HVDC connection from the renewable energy zone in Bhadla, Rajasthan to Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh New HVDC link. . .