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, [...]
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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 [...]
Back to (Smart Grid) Basics at DistribuTECH 2012
This week at DistribuTECH, S&C is exhibiting our latest new products and software, along with expanded features for existing offerings. I could delve into the nitty-gritty technical benefits of these offerings (of which we feel there are many), but instead, I wanted to give background on how S&C’s smart grid portfolio is evolving. And to [...]
Home Energy Management: A Few More Pieces of the Puzzle
How well will consumers embrace active management of their home energy consumption? It’s a potentially billion-dollar question in the home energy management market. On this blog, Mike Edmonds has expressed skepticism about whether consumers are willing, or even able, to buy the in-home technology that will help them better manage energy use. I’ve seen the [...]
Renewable Energy and the Energy Efficiency Puzzle
The Brattle Group’s recent study on Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in 2020 (featured in Smart Grid News) shares an interesting prediction: U.S. electricity consumption will drop 5-15% by 2020 relative to forecast trends, while peak demand will drop 7.5-15% compared to forecasts. The push to reduce energy costs and consumption will no doubt be [...]
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