Voltage Management News
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New MISO Attributes Roadmap Focuses on Future Grid Reliability Needs
MISO recently (Dec 15) published its Attributes Roadmap report which explores three key electric system attributes required to ensure grid reliability and presents recommended solutions to inform ongoing stakeholder collaboration. The report presents insights and solutions to the three system attributes where near-term risk is most acute - system adequacy, flexibility, and system stability. “We ...
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Itron Report Reveals Current State of Energy Transition Amongst U.S. Utilities
Itron, Inc. this week (Oct 25) released its 2023 Resourcefulness Insight Report that explores the implications of the energy transition the shift away from a reliance on fossil fuels and associated influx of distributed energy resources. The report, Powering the Energy Transition: Insights from Utilities and Commissioners on Creating the Future U.S. Grid, summarizes key findings from 250 U.S. ...
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NERC Disturbance Report Emphasizes Continued Need for Industry Action, Provides Recommendations
As inverter-based resources, including modern wind turbines, solar photovoltaic and battery energy storage systems, continue to drive grid transformation, they may also introduce potential risks to the system, as documented by NERC in multiple disturbance reports. As part of its Inverter-Based Resource Strategy, NERC is dedicated to identifying and addressing these challenges, sharing risk ...
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BPA's Barehand Lineworkers Brave High-Voltage for Grid Stability
The Northwest Public Power Association featured BPA's specialized barehand line crew in its September 2023 edition of the Bulletin magazine. When it comes to working hands-on with 500,000 volts, it's no shock that the Bonneville Power Administration employs a highly trained line crew to perform specialized maintenance on live lines. The Northwest Public Power Association featured this specialized ...
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66KV transformer shipment to Australia, SGS inspection
The 66KV transformer, 8mva power transformer with 8 cooling fans, with ester, a flame-retardant, biodegradable insulating fluid. 66KV transformer design galvanizing technology, with corrosion resistance and rust-proof, also used for offshore projects. its will be delivered to Australia, and will supply environmentally friendly power. The third-party company SGS was commissioned to inspect the ...
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Delta Demonstrates 400kW Solid State Transformer-based Extreme Fast EV Charger
Delta Electronics (Americas), Ltd., a subsidiary of Delta Electronics, Inc. and a leader in power and thermal management technologies and provider of smart energy-saving solutions, this week demonstrated a next-generation SiC MOSFET solid state transformer (SST)-based 400kW extreme fast EV charger to its U.S. DOE grant program partners General Motors (GM), DTE Energy, NextEnergy, Virginia Tech's ...
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Discover Our Solutions for Green Hydrogen at the Hydrogen Tech Expo
Green hydrogen is widely accepted as a critical part of advancing the energy transition. However for it to become a reality the technology used to generate it, such as PEM Electrolysers, must demonstrate both performance and affordability. TFP Hydrogen’s specialised coatings and catalysts play an important role in enabling this; they enhance the performance, efficiency and durability of PEM ...
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Enabling the shift: Reducing the Cost of Green Hydrogen
The energy sector is witnessing a fundamental shift away from fossil fuels and towards low-carbon alternatives. Countries around the world are aiming for zero emissions by 2050 and green hydrogen has been identified as a major enabler in securing a sustainable future. The ability to convert, store and transport energy derived from other sustainable sources, such as wind and solar power, while ...
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Generac Grid Services to Deliver Comprehensive, End-to-End DERMS Solution for Arizona Public Service
Generac Grid Services, a subsidiary of Generac Power Systems, a leading designer and manufacturer of energy technology solutions and other power products, announced this week that it has been awarded a multi-year contract from Arizona Public Service (APS) to deliver additional grid capacity from residential battery storage systems. The agreement leverages Generac Grid Services' Concerto™ ...
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Toledo Edison Completing Three-Year Grid Modernization Project
Toledo Edison, a FirstEnergy Corp. electric company, is wrapping up smart grid upgrades in Lucas County to help prevent or minimize the length of service disruptions, particularly during severe weather. The work includes installation of new, automated equipment and technology in substations and power lines serving more than 59,000 customers in parts of Toledo, Holland, Maumee and nearby areas. ...
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The FAQ You’ve Always Had About Supercapacitors
Are batteries and supercapacitors interchangeable? Although both batteries and supercapacitors are energy storage devices, they have different properties that allow them to serve different functions. The main properties of interest when looking at energy storage devices are the specific energy (Wh/L) and specific power (W/L). Specific energy determines the amount of energy that can be stored in ...
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ComEd Proposes Performance Metrics to Encourage High Levels of Service and Value to Customers
Following the completion of a stakeholder workshop process, ComEd this week submitted to the Illinois Commerce Commission, which regulates the state's public utilities, proposed performance metrics that incorporate feedback ComEd received in public workshops and support the goals of the state's new clean energy law, which is designed to achieve a 100 percent clean energy future with a focus on ...
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Black & Veatch to Design, Build Canada’s First Electric Smart Grid
As the electric industry addresses growing demands for lower carbon footprints and heightened reliability and resilience, a Canadian community is entrusting Black & Veatch to transform its power system into a technology-driven, enhanced smart grid meant to lower consumer costs and slash greenhouse gas emissions. Billed as the first such community-wide utility effort in Canada, the Sault Smart ...
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New NYPA Application Monitors Grid Stress and Detects Power Outages in Real Time
The New York Power Authority (NYPA), along with partners in a U.S. Department of Energy-funded project, developed a monitoring and analytics application that uses phasor measurements unit (PMU) data streams to provide a real time assessment of the state's electric grid stress and forward intelligence about impending problems to system operators.The DOE funded the $1.2 million collaborative ...
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Atlantic City Electric Receives Approval to Build Smart Energy Network in South Jersey
Atlantic City Electric has received approval from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to build a Smart Energy Network across the company's entire South Jersey service area, including upgrading the local energy grid and installing smart meters to enhance local energy grid reliability and resiliency and improve the customer experience. The Smart Energy Network is a critical component in ...
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Stable and continuous power for video surveillance systems
It is important to remember that voltage fluctuations are a very frequent phenomenon. Unfortunately video surveillance systems are made up of devices and components that are particularly prone to failures caused precisely by such abnormal fluctuations in electricity. It is therefore essential to protect these systems with a a reliable UPS that extends their ...
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Cogen World Coalition, A New Global Association For The Cogeneration Industry
We are pleased to announce the launch of COGEN World Coalition (CWC), a global association that will bring together a worldwide community of companies, associations, institutions and other key stakeholders focused on the use of cogeneration (also known as combined heat and power or CHP). The CWC has been established to ensure a better contribution of cogeneration to environmental sustainability ...
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Canada Invests in Smart Grid Technology in Alberta
The Honourable Jim Carr, Special Representative for the Prairies, on behalf of Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Seamus O'Regan Jr., this week announced a combined investment of over $900,000 for two smart grid projects in Alberta that will enhance the energy grid and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The first investment of $495,000 is for FortisAlberta Inc. to support the ...
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Schneider Electric Takes a Controlling Stake in ETAP
Schneider Electric announced this week that it has acquired a controlling stake in ETAP Automation Inc., a leading software platform for electrical power systems modeling and simulation. Used by 10,000+ design and engineering firms globally, ETAP models, simulates, control, and optimizes customer electricity power systems based on their digital twin equivalents. Subject to normal regulatory and ...
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Veritone Brings Efficiency and Optimization to Smart Grids with Real-Time Predictive AI
Veritone, which refers to itself as the creator of the world's first operating system for artificial intelligence, aiWARE, today announced it has entered the energy sector with Veritone Energy, a suite of proprietary, predictive AI solutions designed to help utilities increase profitability and improve grid reliability as they make the transition to renewables. "We are thrilled to be adding a ...
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