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 [...]
Tag Archives | Electric Service Reliability
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 [...]
Chattanooga Steams Ahead with a New Economic Engine
It’s easy to feel pessimistic about the state of infrastructure in the U.S. Everywhere you look, there are signs that the nation is not investing in technology and systems that are badly needed to support the U.S. economy in the 21st century. The airways are clogged and burdened by outdated air traffic control systems. Bridges [...]
Smart Goals for the Smart Grid
It’s the time of year to set goals again. I’ve seen many conversations over the past couple of weeks on goals for the smart grid in 2012—including a Tuesday Topic at Smart Grid News—and I couldn’t resist chiming in with my own views. Since I work closely with smart grid programs and technology, I’ve been [...]
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