ABB Wins Power Order in Canada
Manitoba Hydro (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) awarded ABB an order for more than CND$50 million to supply two new substations and upgrade four others as...
ASTM Protective Equipment Standard Developed to Measure Electric-Arc Exposure
ASTM International standard F2621, Practice for Determining Response Characteristics and Design Integrity of Arc Related Finished Products in an Electric...
SC Power Receives Grant for HTS Fault Current Limiters
SC Power Systems Inc. (San Mateo, California, U.S.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Trithor GmbH (Rheinbach, Germany), has been selected by the U.S. Department...
Street Dixon Rick Architecture Takes Green Energy to the Roof
Street Dixon Rick Architecture, PLC recently installed solar panels on the roof of its two-story office building on Kenner Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee,...
Envirotemp FR3 Fluid Chosen in Brazil
ITAIPU Transformmadores in conjunction with CPFL, a distribution utility, and B&M, a research and development company, developed an 88-kVA compact distribution...
Glendale Installs Its First GIS Substation
The existing air-insulated switch rack at the Grayson Power Plant did not have the capacity for expected normal load growth, and it occupied a lot of precious real estate...
Dominion, Shell Windenergy Inc.'s West Virginia Wind Project to Add Second Phase
Dominion and Shell WindEnergy Inc. plan to add a second phase to their wind energy project currently under construction in Grant County, West Virginia....
Three New Substations in United Arab Emirates to Supply Al Reem Island
ADWEA group (Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority) has awarded ABB a $126 million order for three turnkey substations. ...
Con Edison Concludes Lightning Caused Outage
Con Edison of New York has concluded that a strong lightning strike in the vicinity of a Queens substation was the cause of the June 27 power outage that affected 136,700 customers on the Upper East Side and in the West Bronx. ...
ABB to Strengthen Grid in Venezuelan
Venezuelan utility CVG Electrificacin del Caron, C.A. (CVG Edelca) awarded ABB a $36 million contract to strengthen the grid in the Venezuelan states...
Does Good Grounding Improve Distribution-System Performance?
There is a misconception that all grounding improvements mean better system performance, says Jim Burke, executive advisor, InfraSource Technology. In...
TVA Investigates End-to-End Integration
The Bradley 500-kV substation is the first fully automated, multirelay vendor project in the United States to implement the full suite of IEC 61850 communications...
Working Inside the Fence
Colorado Springs is one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States. For Colorado Springs Utility (SU; Colorado, Springs, Colorado), this has meant...
PSE&G To Install More Energy-Efficient Equipment
Public Service Electric and Gas Company will invest in more efficient electric delivery equipment, a move expected to reduce energy use and cut carbon emissions by some 60,000 tons by the year 2020. ...
Pacificorp Granted Easement to Connect New Substation
Unico, Inc., a natural resource company in the precious metals mining sector, has entered into an agreement to grant PacifiCorp an easement for a right of way to establish a connection between the existing substation adjacent to the Deer Trail Mine property and the new substation that will supply power to the Deer Trail Mine. ...
Con Edison Unveils New Bronx Substation; Making Other Improvements
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. unveiled a massive new substation complex in the Bronx as part of the company’s overall building program to help meet the energy needs of 9 million New Yorkers...
U.S. Continues to Lead the World in Wind Power Growth
The U.S. Department of Energy has released its first Annual Report on U.S. Wind Power Installation, Cost, and Performance Trends: 2006, which provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of development and trends in the U.S. wind power market. ...
Life-Cycle Management for System Protection
Aging protection systems and limited financial resources demand improved resource allocation methodologies. Resource priority must be assigned to the...
Texas Officials and Company Reps Dedicate $74 Million VFT Project
Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams gave the keynote remarks at the formal dedication of a new state-of-the-art Variable Frequency Transformer (VFT),...
Siemens to Supply HVDC Converter Stations for Storeblt Project
Denmark's TSO Energinet.dk has awarded Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD; Erlangen, Germany) an order to supply the high-voltage direct-current...
Clean Energy Powers Hospital
The city of Austin has a vision to become the clean energy capital of the world. Austin Mayor Will Wynn and Austin Energy General Manager Juan Garza are...
RAO UES to Improve Power Supply to Kurgan Region
Russian utility RAO UES and the Kurgan regional government have signed an agreement to implement a number of investment projects to construct and upgrade the power facilities in Russia's Kurgan region until 2011...
Symposium for LTC Transformer Failure Addresses Dissolved Gases-in-Oil Analysis
At the 2007 Conference of Doble Clients, held in March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., a symposium was provided to emphasize the success that utility...
SRP Streamlines Station Data Integration
In 2004, transformer fires raged through Maricopa county's westwing substation, resulting in tens of millions of dollars lost. To prevent such calamities...
Endesa to Spend Euro 5.5 Million to Upgrade Entrerríos Transformer Substation
Spain's ENDESA has recently finished the modernization and enlargement of the Entrerríos transformer substation in Pedrola, Zaragoza. ...
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