What exactly is a smart grid? You’ll probably get a different response every time you ask the question (that is, if you don’t get a blank stare). Maggie Koeth Baker, science editor at BoingBoing.net, put it well in an article last week. The smart grid isn’t a single thing, she wrote: “A smart grid is [...]
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Advanced Distribution Automation: It’s Here, and It’s Working
Last week, at Greentech Media’s Networked Grid 2012 conference, I was honored to serve as a panelist on the session titled “Distribution Automation 2.0.” We had a good discussion about the state of technology for distribution automation, and advancements that are (or will) enable greater grid reliability and efficiency. DA has also been a topic in [...]
Checking In: How’s That New Year’s Resolution Going?
We talked a few weeks ago about New Year’s resolutions. Well, how are your resolutions going? Falling behind already? It’s not surprising – many, if not most, people falter on their New Year’s resolutions. Rather than give up on your resolutions for 2012, it may be time to revisit them. Perhaps it’s time to think [...]
Preventing Nuisance Fuse-Link Blowings
Nothing is more frustrating than having a distribution fuse link on a utility feeder blow for no apparent reason. The outage that results is both time consuming and expensive to repair and can lead to unhappy customers. Many people believe that nuisance fuse-link blowings are somehow caused by poor design or sloppy assembly. While there [...]
New Year’s Resolutions for the Grid
Eat fresh fruits and vegetables. Exercise. Keep your vaccinations up to date. Cut saturated fat out of your diet. People make plenty of resolutions at the start of every new year to improve their health. Can we make similar resolutions to improve the health of the electric grid? We typically talk about a healthy grid [...]
Reliability for the Next 100 Years
This week, S&C is celebrating its centennial anniversary—and with it S&C’s engineering accomplishments, including the invention that started the company, the Liquid Power Fuse. Back at the beginning of the 20th century, damaging flashovers following short circuits were common in utility substations, and sometimes catastrophic. The technologies needed to interrupt short circuits and protect the [...]
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