The past year has seen a dramatic change in the metering market. Previously, utilities faced questions about cost-justifying Automated Meter Reading (AMR)—projects that reduced personnel and insurance ...

Aging infrastructure is a well-recognized challenge across our nation’s energy system with investor-owned utilities spending a record of $19.5 billion in electric transmission infrastructure last year ...

Use of the arc reflection method combined with a high capacitance surge generator and state-of-the-art pinpointing devices for underground cable fault locating will find faults in less time and with ...

Our electricity system has greatly evolved and now represents an essential contributor to our society’s well-being. Power Generationand Transmission & Distribution Operators aim to deliver dependable ...

Batteries are among the least expensive pieces of equipment in a substation, and they are the heart that keeps the protection and control system running. Despite this, they are often not maintained ...

Ethernet and the IP protocol bring tremendous advantages to power utilities – and in particular substations – through international standardization. This keeps the cost of equipment low, ensures ...

The electric power industry of the future will be far more information-intensive than it is today. The business model will change from the sale of energy at relatively static prices to the management ...

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 ...

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 ...

Electric and magnetic fields are important factors to be considered when designing transmission lines. They occur in nature and have become much more prevalent in our everyday lives through man-made ...

Over the past few decades, changes in weather patterns due to climate change or global warming have led to more extreme, frequent, and costly weather events that have included intense rains, ice ...

More than ever, utilities are focusing on distribution system reliability, including outage management and the utility’s responsiveness during outage situations. As utilities plan for deployment of ...