Minnesota Utility Keeps an Eye on Remote Substation
Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association (W-H, Rockford, Minnesota, U.S.) has a natural affinity for monitoring systems. In 1989, it launched...
Municipal Enhances DG Performance with New Fuel
Three generator sets driven by advanced natural-gas-fueled Caterpillar (Peoria, Illinois, U.S.) engines are helping Greenwood Utilities, a municipal utility...
New Mexico Wind Energy Center Under Construction
Public Service Co. of New Mexico (PNM; Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.) and FPL-Energy (Juno Beach, Florida, U.S.) began the construction of the New Mexico...
Outside Experts Monitor Status of Key Transformers
Since the onset of deregulation, market forces have placed utilities in the uncomfortable position of reducing expenditures for many activities that previously...
Paper Mill Improves Power Factor with S&C PureWave AVC Adaptive VAR Compensator
A major paper mill in Old Town, Maine, U.S., selected S&C Electric Co.'s (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) PureWave AVC Adaptive VAR Compensator to improve the...
PLCs Enhance Voltage Regulation
On the eastern end of Lake Erie, 21 urban distribution substations serve the power needs of the city of Buffalo, New York, U.S. The system, now owned...
Substation Monitoring By the Numbers
Kansas City Power & Light Co. (KCP&L, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) has 169 substations scattered throughout its bi-state service territory. One hundred...
Taking UCA Mainstream
Substation integration and automation system design begins with the concept of providing access to vast amounts of untapped substation data beyond what...
Erecting Steel City
Majestically situated on 16 acres (6 ha) of land, surrounded by Pennsylvania's rolling hills, stands a vast forest of gleaming steel structures that compose...
Successful Commissioning of SCHAAN, ESCHEN and TRIESEN Substations in Liechtenstein
Within the three-year schedule to deliver the three substations by VA TECH Transmission & Distribution, now the third substation (Eschen) was successfully...
ALSTOM Makes Australian Wind Farm Connection
ALSTOM has connected one of Australia's largest wind farms to the grid. The Toora wind farm, which is 180 km (112 miles) southeast of Melbourne in the...
India's Oldest Power Provider Goes High-Tech
Tata Power Co. Ltd. (TPCL; Mumbai, India), India's oldest and largest private generating and distributing company, has upgraded its Jojobera Power Plant...
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative's SVC System Delivers up to 19 MVAR Reactive Power to Long Radial Feed
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC; Richmond, Virginia, U.S.) installed a large-capacity PCS 600-SVC (static var compensator) system at its site...
Sasaram HVDC Project Goes On-line in India
The Indian Prime Minister, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has officially inaugurated the Sasaram back-to-back high-voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnector...
Texas Utility Improves Grid Reliability with D-VAR
Rayburn Country Electric Cooperative (Rockwall, Texas, U.S.) has purchased two D-VAR dynamic voltage-compensation systems from American Superconductor...
TVA Orders SuperVAR Condensers to Boost Power Flow and Grid Reliability
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA; Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.), one of the largest transmission grid operators in the United States, has ordered five SuperVAR...
ALSTOM Repairs Damage to Kosovan Power Plant
An ALSTOM-led consortium has successfully completed a 10.9 million project to restart unit 2 of the fire-damaged Kosovo B power plant. In partnership...
Black & Veatch Installs Four 10-MW Units in California
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.) has completed engineering, procurement and construction of 40 MW of distributed generation power for the...
Syria: Syria Awards ABB US$35 Million Contract To Build Six High-Voltage Substations
The Public Establishment of Electricity for Generation and Transmission (PEEGT; Damascus), Syria's power generation and transmission utility, awarded...
CPT Protects Distribution With VAMP Relays
Vaasa Electronics Ltd. (Vaasa, Finland) delivered 280 protection relays to Chungva Picture Tubes (CPT; Taiwan). The project is the biggest delivery of...
American Superconductor's Advanced Voltage Regulation System Provides Critical Load Protection
Altis Semiconductor (Corbeil-Essonnes, France) has installed American Superconductor Corp.'s (AMSC; Westborough, Massachusetts, U.S.) voltage regulation...
SDG&E Tests Interconnected Windings Transformers
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG San Diego, California, U.S.) uses interconnected windings to save space in substations and provide a stable ground/neutral...
Gas-in-Oil Standards Improve Accuracy of DGA Tests
Dissolved gas analysis (DGA) is widely used to monitor the condition of transformers and other pieces of oil-filled equipment in service. Technicians...
United States/Sweden: ABB Wins Two Projects to Upgrade Existing HVDC Links in North Dakota and Minnesota
ABB has won two US$10 million orders to upgrade the control systems for the Square Butte HVDC Scheme and the CU HVDC Project. Both are high-voltage direct...
Utilities Remote Racking of Metal-Clad Switchgear
With two employees dead and three injured (two very seriously), Gulf States Electric Utilities (Beaumont, Texas, U.S.), now part of Entergy (New Orleans,...
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