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, ...

Using the Internet to send and receive meter data is a topic of discussion at many utilities. A number of proprietary protocols are available today, but soon, a new ANSI standard protocol will be ...

Electrical power transmission networks are protected and controlled by medium and high-voltage circuit breakers. Breakers are meant to make and break the flow of electrical currents in transmission ...

Managing On Load Tap Changer (OLTC) fleet depends on the assessment of their condition. In addition to the insulation condition, dynamic performance characteristic is the most important factor ...

Ever wondered how much electric energy the world consumes or how much energy is lost on its way from power plants to end user customers? Have you wondered how much energy could be saved or greenhouse ...

Since the 1960’s, electric power systems – and the demands on those systems -- have grown substantially. Many power grid assets are getting old enough to retire, as is the baby boomer generation that ...

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 ...

Since its release in 2003, IEC 61850, a standard that defines communications protocols for intelligent electronic devices associated with power systems, has been rapidly adopted by utilities around ...

One of the key characteristics of the much-discussed Smart Grid refers to electric power systems that enhance grid reliability and efficiency by automatically anticipating and responding to system ...

In basic terms, a geographic information system (GIS) for energy services or utility companies brings together, manages and makes use of two broad groupings of information – landbase and facilities ...

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 ...

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