TOOLS AND METHODS AID RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION
ALL UTILITIES FACE PRESSURES to increase efficiency while meeting higher expectations for service and reliability. Many are examining how new maintenance...
THE VALUE OF POWER FACTOR TESTING
NATIONAL GRID DISCOVERED A HIGH POWER FACTOR DURING ACCEPTANCE TESTING of a new 40-MVA transformer in 2004. The unit was then returned to the factory...
SuperVAR Selected for R&D Award
The SuperVAR dynamic synchronous condenser, developed by American Superconductor (AMSC; Westborough, Massachusetts, U.S.) in collaboration with Tennessee...
GE Energy Offers Line of Wind Turbines
GE ENERGY HAS EXPANDED ITS 1.5-MW SERIES OF WIND TURBINES to include the 1.5xle model, designed for efficient operation in weak wind areas. A prototype...
Austin Energy Uses STATCOM to Retire Urban Generation
The four units at Austin Energy's (AE's) Holly power plant were put into service between 1960 and 1974. Designed to use oil or gas, the plant was capable...
Switzerland: ABB Wins Contract in Brazil
ABB (Zurich) has won a US$15 million contract to install Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS) in Brazil to increase the capacity...
Innovative Energized Work Enables Critical Maintenance
The interconnected Uruguayan Argentinean transmission system consists of 500-kV lines and substations. Of those, UTE Uruguay has two substations, Montevideo...
Florida DEP Purchases 12 GenCore Fuel Cell Systems
Plug Power Inc. announced the sale of 12 GenCore backup fuel cell systems to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The 5-kW hydrogen-fueled...
IEEE OKs Testing Standard for Interconnection Equipment
The IEEE has approved a standard that defines tests for equipment used to interconnect distributed resources (DRs), such as fuel cells, photovoltaics...
Managing Aged Transformers
Utilities are increasingly operating transformers up to and beyond their expected life spans. Asset managers are diagnosing and monitoring the condition...
Power Grid Demonstration Project to Showcase Capability of High-Temperature Superconductor Technology to Break Electric Grid Bottlenecks
Condumex, one of the largest wire and cable manufacturers in Mexico, has placed an order for a first-generation high-temperature superconductor (HTS)...
Utilities Implement Intelligent Monitoring Applications to Improve Reliability
More and more utilities are implementing monitoring systems that can track power-quality conditions at substations and on distribution systems. These...
Kansas City Power & Light Brings DGA Testing In-House
Of the 169 substations scattered throughout its bi-state service territory in Kansas and Missouri, Kansas City Power & Light (KCP Kansas City, Missouri,...
No Disassembly Required
Utilities today are expected to reduce operating and maintenance costs while continuing to provide high-quality power and reliable service. This expectation...
Hunting for Hot Spots in Gas-Insulated Switchgear
The reliability of gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) is high, but so are the consequential losses to system security and a utility's revenue when the system...
HVDC Converter Stations Connect 3000-MW Line
The state-owned China Power Grid Development Co. recently awarded ABB a US$360 million contract to supply two converter stations for the 3000-W high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power link, which will transmit electricity from the Three Gorges Hydropower Plant in central China to the Guangdong province in southern China...
SDG&E Upgrades Miguel Station
Upgrading its Miguel Substation, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E; San Diego, California, U.S.) is using gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) technology for the first time—installing a 500-kV GIS and step-down transformer in San Diego County. ...
World’s Largest Solar Park Built in Bavaria
Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) Group (Erlangen, Germany) has received an order from PowerLight Corp. (Berkeley, California, U.S.) to provide all of the electrical equipment for the Bavaria Solarpark Photovoltaic Plant....
Substation Automation Project in Full Swing
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP; Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is now in the production stage of a five-year substation automation (SA) project to modernize its SCADA/AGC network and data communications system between 179 substations....
United States: DOE and California Energy Commission Award Contracts to Beacon Power Corp. to Demonstrate Energy-Storage System
Beacon Power Corp. (Wilmington, Massachusetts) was recently awarded contracts by the California Energy Commission, and by the U.S. Department of Energy's...
United States: ABB Completes GIS Installation for SCPPA
ABB (Raleigh, North Carolina), a power and automation technology group, has completed the $4.5-million installation of a 69-kV gas-insulated substation...
Brazil: AREVA T&D to Build Biomass Power Plants
AREVA's T&D division was awarded a contract for 16.6-million euros to build two biomass power plants in Paran, Brazil. Under the scope of the contract,...
PG&E Installs FACTS to Retire Aging Assets
Voltage stability and reactive power system restrictions have become growing concerns for utilities following the adoption of the Federal Energy Regulatory...
California Commission to Investigate Reliability of PG&E Substations, Determine Possible Fines for 2003 Outage
The California Public Utilities Commission announced that in addition to a staff investigation of an electricity outage originating at Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Mission Substation last weekend, it has opened a formal investigation to determine possible fines and penalties against PG&E for a December 2003 outage and fire, also at the Mission Substation...
Siemens Commissions Substation Control System Based on IEC 61850
Six months after the IEC 61850 communication standard for sub-station automation was released, Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) installed...
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