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 ...

Some of the earliest Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems were installed in the 1920s. At the time, some high voltage substations adjacent to power plants (aka generating stations) ...

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 ...

Electric distribution companies can achieve huge savings in the new frontier of energy-efficiency improvement by maximizing energy delivery efficiency and optimizing peak demand. VVO will help achieve ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The first trend is toward greater ‘interconnectedness’ of the entire grid. The ability for information to flow all the way from the smart meter at the customer’s premises to the utility’s management ...

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