Newest BPA Substation Underscores Huge Appetite for Wind Power in the Northwest
The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA; Portland Oregon, U.S.) has added a third substation to accommodate the rapid continued development of new wind...
Compact Equipment Invades the Substation
Communication Technologies Inc. (CTI) is installing a 12-block-long duct system for MidAmerican Energy Co. in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, connecting to...
Italy's HERA Orders HV, MV Switchgear for Eight Combined Heat and Power Plants
Energy group Holding Energia Risorse Ambiente (HERA; Bologna, Italy) has awarded Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD; Erlangen, Germany)...
Arc-Flash Testing Personal Protective Equipment
Historically, the focus of arc-fault testing has been performed to determine if workers in the vicinity of medium-voltage equipment would be subjected...
Substation Designed To Weather the Storms
The design and construction of air-insulated substations in areas in the Dominican Republic that have no special environmental requirements must follow...
Control Buildings To Go
The concept of modular, protections, automation and control(MPAC) buildings is to provide highly integrated, well-engineered, preassembled control buildings...
Affordable Power Comes to Utah
Like other public utilities, Heber Light and Power is not opposed to owning and operating its own generation. In fact, Heber Light & Power Co. (HL Heber...
Lower Cost, Higher Function
Western Area Power Administration began deploying programmable logic controller (PLC) control systems in 1996 with a pilot project at the Fort Thompson...
Construction Begins on Estlink Submarine Cable Converter Station
In April, the Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications, the heads of the power companies of the Baltic States and Finland, the ambassadors...
Construction Begins on Estlink Submarine Cable Converter Station
In April, the Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications, the heads of the power companies of the Baltic States and Finland, the ambassadors...
How Important is Accurate Thermal Measurement?
UNTIL RECENTLY, MOST BUYERS OF INFRARED IMAGING CAMERAS had to make a budgeting choice between a low-resolution 160120-pixel camera or no camera at all,...
Siemens Applies IEC Standard for Station Automation in China
A year ago, Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) commissioned a station automation system based on the IEC 61850 communications standard...
TVA's Evolving Station Integration
The complexities of integrating intelligent electronic devices (IEDS) from multiple vendors, using different communication protocols, have bedeviled the...
Utility Tackles Substation EMF
Electrical installation such as power lines, transformers or distribution equipment, transmit electromagnetic radiation to the environment. The impact...
Progress Evaluates Capacitor Switching
In 2003, Progress Energy Florida embarked on a research and development project to review equipment used for switching existing capacitor-bank installations...
Let's Work Smarter
Why do we insist on making each substation unique? Over the past year or so, I have asked that question at several standardization presentations I have...
Corrosive-Sulfur Problems Resurface
Large power transformers and shunt reactors have failed in part because of corrosive sulfur in the electrical insulating mineral oils. This has occurred...
System Protection at NASA Ames
The NASA Ames Research Center is upgrading its protection system to meet the requirements for increased reliability under different conditions. The center...
I'm Expecting Resistance
I know there are at least a few of you who will take offense when I challenge the constants in our industry. So be it. You will have the opportunity to...
Iceland Power Transmission Company to Install a Dynamic VAR Compensator
Landsnet, an independent power transmission company in Iceland, has placed an order with American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC) for a 40-MVAR Dynamic VAR...
SES to Construct Massive Solar Generating Station in California
Stirling Energy Systems (SES; Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.) has signed an agreement with Edison International subsidiary Southern California Edison (SCE), the...
AEP PIONEERS NEW OIL-CONTAINMENT SYSTEM
IN A DAY AND AGE OF INCREASING EMPHASIS ON ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE, finding safe, cost-effective designs are critical to streamlining large projects....
MODULAR SUBSTATION APPROACH IS WORKING WELL AT POWERLINK QUEENSLAND
POWERLINK QUEENSLAND is an Australian government-owned corporation that owns, operates, develops and maintains one of the world's longest and most reliable,...
Barely Transportable Becomes Truly Mobile Transformer
THE OLD ADAGE THAT WHAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND TENDS TO BE TRUE when you work around a power utility long enough. It's easy to criticize a problem when...
SPINNING THE 40-CYCLE BLUES
WHAT DO YOU DO when you have 18 MW of hydroelectric generation but no way to get it to market because your generators operate at 40 Hz in a 60-cycle world?...
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