New Storage System for Wind Energy Could Increase Installed Capacity on Ireland's National Grid
Sustainable Energy Ireland has published the results of a feasibility study for the implementation of a wind energy storage facility at Sorne Hill Wind Farm, Buncrana, Co. Donegal....
Black & Veatch Wins Saigon Project
Black & Veatch (Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) has been selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for a substation and...
InfraSource's MJE Completes Killingly Substation for Connecticut Light & Power
InfraSource Services Inc.'s M.J. Electric (MJE; Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania, U.S.; www.infrasourceinc.com) business unit recently completed work on...
Gold Coast Airport Upgrades Using OSM Recloser
The Gold Coast Airport Pty Ltd. (GCAPL) has experienced an average annual growth rate in passenger movements of 16% over the past five years. With this...
Hidden Within View
Camoflaged by a neighborhood park in a densely populated residential area of Anaheim, California, U.S., is a subterranean gas-insulated switchgear (GIS)...
Alabama Power Opens Up to DGA in a Box
Dissolved gas analysis is a nonintrusive tool used to determine the internal condition of power transformers. Over the years, Southern Company Transmission...
ABB to Supply Transformers for the Beijing Olympics
ABB has won a contract from the Beijing Electric Power Corporation for power transformers to strengthen electricity grids in the city and ensure reliable power for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. ...
New Substation, Transmission Line will Serve Saigon Hi-Tech Park
Black & Veatch has been selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for a 110-kV substation and electric transmission line project for the Saigon Hi-Tech Park....
PJM Manages Aging Transformer Fleet
The PJM interconnection system has experienced both failures and degradation of older transmission transformers (Fig. 1). Steps required to mitigate potential...
Siemens Connects Offshore Wind Parks
Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) is connecting the Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind parks, located in northeast England, to the British power-supply...
Suzlon Energy Australia Orders Nexans Cables for Wind Farm
Suzlon Energy Australia Pty Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia) has awarded Nexans (Paris, France), via Olex, a 2-million-euro order to supply approximately 135...
Protective Relays to Exceed $1.5 Billion
The Newton-Evans Research Co. (Ellicott, Maryland, U.S.) has completed a nine-month research program, conducting a global survey of protective relay usage patterns in the world's electric power business....
HECO Adapts to the Complexities of DG
Hawaiian Electric Co. is using distributed generation (DG) on the island of Oahu as a strategy to meet growing loads and to satisfy reserve margin requirements...
Patch Antenna Detects Insulation Problems
Israel electric co. has begun research and development of patch antenna use as a very sensitive mobile window ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) sensor to detect...
ENERGEX Wraps Up $7.3 Million Redlands Power Upgrade
More than 20,000 homes and businesses will benefit from the completion of a US$7.3 million power upgrade at Birkdale in Australia. A new substation at...
Advanced Control Systems Upgrades Colorado Springs Capabilities with Connex 30 Substation Managers
Advanced Control Systems (ACS; Norcross, Georgia, U.S.) has supplied the first two of 63 Connex 30 Substation Managers to Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU;...
Alabama Power Installs Substation on a Skid
After decades in operation, utilities often face the inevitable reality that their unit substations are old, overloaded and potentially a maintenance...
NaREC, National Grid Secure High-Voltage Testing Contract
The New and Renewable Energy Centre (NaREC; Blyth, Northumberland, U.K.) has secured a three-year testing contract for National Grid substation equipment....
PPM Breaks Ground on MinnDakota Wind Farm for Xcel Energy
Construction is underway for the 150-MW MinnDakota Wind Power Project in Brookings County in South Dakota and Lincoln County in Minnesota. South Dakota...
Benefits of a Line Without the Line
Georgia Power commissioned the Laurens County 87-MVAR static var compensator (SVC) in June 2005 to address voltage problems in Dublin, Georgia, U.S.,...
Telvent to Control Electricity Distribution Substations in Baja California, Mexico
The Comisin Federal de Electricidad (CFE) awarded Telvent a contract worth more than 2 million euros to supply control, protection and communications...
TNB Reaps Benefits From SF6 Monitoring
The use of sulfur hexafloride(SF6) in gas-insulated substations (GIS), switchgear and other SF6-filled devices (such as transformers and gas-insulated...
Massive Automation Initiative
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is undertaking an ambitious substation automation (SA) project in 179 substations, as part of its...
Right Size Your Transformer
When comparing the kilovolt-amp demand loading on southern company substations with the actual connected transformer nameplate kVA, it was apparent that,...
Siemens Delivers Substation to Dubai
Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD; Erlangen, Germany) is delivering a turnkey 400-kV/132-kV substation with gas-insulated switchgear to...
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