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.
May 28, 2020 | Data analytics, Electric utilities, Featured, Grid monitoring
Have you ever gotten stuck in traffic? You know there’s a problem, but you can’t see far enough ahead to know what it is or the best options for avoiding a three-hour delay. Electric distribution engineers face a similar problem. The decades-old substations and major...
Apr 21, 2020 | Distribution Automation, Electric utilities, Featured, Grid monitoring, Load control, Renewable energy
If you looked up the word “optimization” in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, you’d find a definition sure to make engineers smile: Optimization equals “an act, process or methodology of making something as fully perfect, functional or effective as possible.” Of...
Apr 8, 2020 | Electric utilities, Featured, Grid monitoring
Life on earth is changing rapidly and these changes are exacerbated by the current pandemic. Our economy and lifestyle have undergone drastic transformations, with entire companies working from home, schools converting to home-based curriculums, and people seeking out...
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. ...
