There is an increased focus on transmission and distribution investments to address aging and distressed infrastructure. Previously voluntary reliability programs under the North American Electric ...

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 ...

Utilities are facing an ever-expanding universe of devices, systems, and data sources that must be managed, controlled, and integrated into a variety of critical operational systems. Anyone who has ...

In today’s changing utility environment, one thing remains constant - electric utilities are continually looking for better ways to increase transmission capacity to satisfy the ever-growing demand ...

If you ask a utility executive with a few decades of experience under his/her belt what s/he thinks about the current state of our industry, chances are you’ll hear them say that this is one of the ...

Conventional thinking considers the aging utility workforce a critical problem demanding a call to arms. Although the demographics are more pronounced within the utility industry than in many other ...

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 ...

With the advent of CAD, work order management, and purchasing technology in recent decades, substation engineering underwent a transformation. Design, purchasing, and construction management ...

This article is the first in a series of articles that will help to bring light to the maintenance practices presently applied to power circuit breakers. A list of the most popular tests used; with ...

Although the reliability of power to Industry is high, momentary power interruptions and voltage sags still occur. These may be caused naturally, by lightning strikes , snow storms and over grown ...

Common development wisdom characterizes portions of the U.S. transmission system as antique and the generation interconnection study and queue process, especially for renewable power as, at best, ...

Whenever I make fundamental changes to a word processor document – i.e., changes that affect the basic structure; not just content changes – and get ready to quit the application, I sometimes get a ...