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 ...

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 ...

The Power of Zinc and Weathering Steel Extends Steel’s Service Life The quality and inherent value of steel distribution poles is often enhanced by the process of hot-dip galvanizing, or the use of ...

Most electric utilities have implemented either a Geographic Information System (GIS) or some type of mapping system. Many maintain an asset management system. A small but rapidly growing number are ...

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 ...

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), a manufacturer of sophisticated equipment for utilities and other power systems, is looking to hire scores of electrical engineers right now. Good luck with ...

Many electric distribution organizations are presently evaluating their approach to integrating three key operational systems – SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), OMS (Outage Management ...

It's a beautiful day in your service area, and your distribution operations control center has few to no outages for operations to deal with; everything at your utility is status quo. Tomorrow, ...

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 ...