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Yearly Archives: 2004
S&C Selected to Construct Wind-Turbine Collector System
S&C Electric Company has been awarded the contract to construct a wind-turbine collector system and interconnect substation — including all underground and overhead distribution — on a turnkey basis for the Horseshoe Bend Wind Park. The owner of the wind … Continue reading
Posted in Renewable Energy, Wind Energy
S&C’s Brad Roberts Receives John Mungenast International Power Quality Award
S&C Electric Company is proud to announce the John Mungenast International Power Quality Award has been presented to Brad Roberts, Power Quality Systems Director for S&C’s Power Quality Products Division.
Posted in Corporate News, Power Quality, Uninterruptible Power
The Use of Cooling-Factor Curves for Coordinating Fuses and Reclosers
This paper, written by S&C’s Carey J. Cook and David A. Myers, describes how to precisely coordinate distribution feeder automatic-circuit reclosers using cooling-factor data that accounts for the heating and cooling of source-side or load-side fuses throughout the recloser’s operating … Continue reading
Posted in Electric Utilities
System VI Switchgear Now Available With 2000-A Main Bus
S&C has been continually expanding the Vista® Underground Distribution Switchgear product line since it was first introduced. Now, S&C is pleased to introduce another great addition to the Vista UDS / System VI Switchgear family: 2000-ampere continuous rated main bus! … Continue reading
Posted in Underground Distribution
Tagged System VI Switchgear, Vista UDS
Major Midwestern Utility Opts for IntelliTeam II Automatic Restoration System to Increase Reliability
A major user of the original IntelliTeam Automatic Reconfiguration System upgraded one particularly problematic feeder to IntelliTeam II in September 2004 as a trial of the newest in feeder automation technology.
Posted in Self-Healing Grids, Smart Grid
Tagged IntelliTeam
S&C and IntelliTeam II Play Critical Role in the Largest Distribution Automation Project in Canada
ENMAX Power Corporation has initiated a five-year plan to automate eighty 25-kV lines and the worst-performing 13.8-kV feeders in the Calgary, Alberta, service territory. ENMAX’s system reliability goal is to move the utility’s SAIDI and SAIFI statistics from the second … Continue reading
Posted in Distribution Automation, Power Systems Services, Self-Healing Grids
Tagged IntelliTeam, PME Pad-Mounted Gear, Scada-Mate