National Geographic has an interesting article discussing how innovators of renewable technologies are looking at nature for ways to improve upon the design of renewable energy systems. The concept called biomimicry is fairly simple, over billions of years of evolution, plants and animals have developed better and more efficient ways of capturing energy and we [...]
Miss the IEEE PES T&D Show? Catch Up on What You Missed
Were you unable to attend this year’s show? Or did you have limited time to spend in the exposition? You can check out the IEEE PES show blog, which includes updates from the event. You can also see what you may have missed in S&C’s booth. We’re featuring videos on S&C’s YouTube channel with remarks [...]
Solving the Smart Grid Interoperability Challenge
During a recent panel discussion in Chattanooga, Tenn., about the smart grid, S&C’s President John Estey made an important point about how to successfully implement an intelligent grid: “What you need is people who understand the applications and how to knit these things together, because it isn’t about smart meters. It isn’t about IntelliRupters. It’s [...]
The Next Step in Self-Healing Grids
Distribution automation solutions are essential to helping utilities reduce the impact and duration of power outages. At S&C, we’ve worked with a number of utilities who’ve realized significant reductions in costly outages with self-healing technology, such as at EPB of Chattanooga, Tennessee. But full DA solutions are typically only applied on main utility distribution lines, [...]
Seeing What’s New at the IEEE PES T&D Show
Every other year, professionals in the power delivery industry have the opportunity to not only gain new perspective on challenges facing the industry, but to also learn about solutions to these problems. This opportunity presents itself at the IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, which takes place again next week in Orlando, Florida. [...]
Microgrids 2.0: New Technologies Require a Second Look at an Old Concept
Talk about the importance of microgrids has reached a fever pitch in recent years. Many have discussed the need for industrial campuses, military bases, universities, and many other critical loads to operate when isolated from the utility grid—or, in other words, as a microgrid. Is this some fancy new smart grid concept? Hardly. A microgrid [...]
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