Apr 6, 2021 | Electric utilities, Grid monitoring
This blog is the final installment in our 4-part series on why smart grid sensors are a better investment than fault current indicators (FCIs, or FPIs in Europe). In our past posts, we established that the Aclara Grid Monitoring Platform with smart grid sensors...
Mar 23, 2021 | Electric utilities, Grid monitoring
This is Part 3 in our 4-part series on why sensors are a better investment than fault current indicators (FCIs, or FPIs in Europe). Here is a recap on what we discussed so far: Part 1: The short falling of FCIs in meeting utilities’ needs for real-time...
Mar 9, 2021 | Electric utilities, Grid monitoring
This blog is the second installment in our 4-part series on why the Aclara Grid Monitoring Platform is a better investment than fault current indicators (FCIs, or FPIs as they are known in Europe). In Part 1, we noted that Aclara smart grid sensors are more accurate...
Feb 22, 2021 | Electric utilities, Featured, Grid monitoring
The push to modernize the aging distribution grids and the need to bring low-carbon renewable technologies onto grids has sparked a new demand for distribution monitoring solutions. Traditional legacy fault current indicators (FCIs or FPIs as they are known in Europe)...
Sep 16, 2020 | Electric utilities, Featured, Grid monitoring
Every fire season brings new horrors and hardships for people living in dry or drought-prone areas. The summer of 2020, for example, bought apocalyptic fires raging in Oregon and California.
Mar 3, 2020 | Electric utilities, Featured, Grid monitoring
Many cooperative and public power utilities have limited budgets and limited staff to manage their networks. And often with very large rural territories to cover, it adds to the challenge of the job. Lincoln Electric Cooperative (LEC), for example, is a rural...
Feb 12, 2020 | Electric utilities, Grid monitoring
During new construction, storm restoration or removals of aging equipment, maintaining accurate records of your distribution grid can prove challenging. Computer systems such as a Geographic Information System (GIS) are used by many utilities to manage asset records. ...
Oct 16, 2019 | Electric utilities, Grid monitoring
Two innovation programs funded by the UK’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) — the Network Innovation Allowance (NIA) and Low Carbon Networks Fund – are critical in that they support technology programs that help utilities improve their financial...
Oct 15, 2016 | Data analytics, Distribution Automation, Electric utilities, Grid monitoring
Here are a few facts you may not have realized until now… Electric lines are blamed for 9% of wildfires 5 to 10 arc-flash explosions occur in electrical equipment daily within the U.S ….. these numbers all relate to one subject: Reliability ...
