Today (Dec 19), Ameren Missouri announced 500 megawatts (MW) of new solar generation, representing a total investment of approximately $950 million, a. . .

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like many linemen I’ve known, I was initially attracted to the job because it offered good pay and benefits, I enjoy working outdoors and, as long as I performed, I’d have job security. Linemen will ...

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 ...

In our business, we constantly come across companies that have taken a run at leveraging the Internet for their SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems, either by Internet-enabling ...

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 ...