Windfarm Voltage Regulation Using D-VAR
SeaWest Wind Power operates a 183-turbine wind-farm connected to PacifiCorp's Foote Creek Substation. With a current maximum output of 135 MW, the Wyoming...
Zinc Fuel Cell Provides Backup Power for Cell Site
One of Metallic Power's (Carlsbad, California, U.S.) zinc fuel cells successfully provided backup power to a cell site during power interruptions, marking...
Drop-In Control House Debuts at Duke
In the past, substation integration efforts focused on integrating functional blocks of equipment through various communications media, which required...
Hydro-Qubec Tests Polymer Design to Upgrade Bushings
During the 1970s, Hydro-Qubec (Montral, Canada) installed nine 250 MVAR (16-kV) synchronous compensators to better control network voltages through dynamic...
Keys to a Good Substation Inspection Program
A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when inspecting equipment. However, if the proper procedures are not in place to act on what you are seeing,...
LADWP Awards Substation Automation Contract to SchlumbergerSema
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP; Los Angeles, California, U.S.) signed a contract under which SchlumbergerSema (Greenwood Village,...
ADSS Cables Recognizing the Problems and Solutions
The installation of fiber-optic cables on towers that support extra-high-, high- and medium-voltage (EHV, HV, MV) transmission lines provides an effective...
AEP Demonstrates NAS Battery Technology in the United States
In August, American Electric Power (AEP, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.) commenced the first U.S. stationary demonstration of the NAS battery as developed by NGK...
Alabama Power Purchases SUBNET Substation Suite
SUBNET Solutions Inc. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) has signed a purchase agreement with Alabama Power Co., a subsidiary of Southern Co. (Atlanta, Georgia,...
Capstone Tallies 2 Million Operating Hours Worldwide
Capstone Turbine Corp. (Chatsworth, California, U.S.) has documented more than 2 million hours of aggregated run time among its microturbine systems operating...
DG Comes to Detroit Edison
DTE Energy is committed to distributed generation (DG) in a big way. In fact, support for DG comes from the top of the corporation. Consider this statement...
DTE Energy Technologies Installs Fuel Cells For Power Demonstration Project
DTE Energy Technologies Inc. (Detroit, Michigan, U.S.) installed two fuel cells, manufactured by Plug Power Inc. (Latham, New York, U.S.), that will provide...
France: ABB Wins Power-Supply Infrastructure Contract
ABB won a Euro 3.6 million turnkey contract from engineering headquarters of SNCF, France's national rail company acting for Rseau Ferr de France (RFF)...
Getting a Grip on Connectivity
In January 2001, Public Service Electric & Gas Co. (PSE&G, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.) completed the installation of a new outage I management system (OMS)...
Let the Real Work Begin
The hype is over in distributed generation (DG) and good riddance! Sure the technology is promising. And, yes, DG has the potential to add value for both...
NiSource Energy Technologies Installs DG Technology at Breeden YMCA
NiSource Energy Technologies and the Breeden YMCA (Angola, Indiana, U.S.) announce the installation and commissioning of a combined heat and power (CHP)...
Palm Springs Wind Park Selects Second Wind System
Cannon Power Corp. chose the Advanced Distributed Monitoring System (ADMS) from Second Wind Inc. (Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S.) to monitor and control...
United States: Georgia Co-op Installs State's First Plug Power Fuel Cell
Flint Energies (Warner Robins, Georgia) installed Georgia's first residential fuel cell, which will provide heat and electricity to its Service Center...
United States: New Spark for the Satsop Development Park
After sitting dormant for nearly two decades, the site of an uncompleted twin nuclear power plant in Washington has been given a new purpose home to a...
France: ABB Wins Contract to Reinforce Power-Supply Infrastructure for France's Railway System
ABB has won a Euro 3.6 million turnkey contract from engineering headquarters of SNCF, France's national rail company, acting for RFF (Rseau Ferr de France)...
United States: S&C Electric Purchases Adaptive VAR Compensator Product Line From Trench
S&C Electric Co. (Chicago, Illinois) purchased the Adaptive VAR Compensator product line from Trench Limited of Canada. This addition, to be marketed...
United States: ABB Refurbishes LADWP's HVDC System
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP, Los Angeles, California) awarded ABB (Zurich) a contract to refurbish a high-voltage direct current...
Canada: ALSTOM Wins HVDC Transformer Contract
Manitoba Hydro (Winnipeg, Manitoba) awarded ALSTOM an order for three high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter transformers. Manitoba Hydro generates...
D-VAR Mitigates Voltage Problems in British Columbia
American Superconductor Corp. (Westborough, Massachusetts, U.S.) and GE Industrial Systems (Plain-ville, Connecticut, U.S.) provided a D-VAR voltage-regulation...
Propane-Fuelled Distributed Generation Underway in Oregon
A demonstration of a Capstone 60 MicroTurbine the first of its size (60 kW) to run on propane in the United States is underway in Oregon. PNGC Power (Portland,...
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