AREVA T&D Wins Contract for U.K.'s First High-Voltage Offshore Substation
The Kellogg Brown & Root/Vestas Celtic Wind Technology Ltd. consortium awarded AREVA T&D a contract to design, manufacture and install the United Kingdom's...
First VFT System in Service for TransEnergie, a Unit of Hydro-Qubec
Following the successful completion of commissioning tests, GE Energy's new variable frequency transformer (VFT) technology has entered commercial service...
GE Energy to Design and Rebuild Substation in U.K.
SP PowerSystems, part of the ScottishPower group (Glasgow, U.K.), awarded GE Energy (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.) a contract for approximately US$16 million...
New Coolant Improves Transformer Performance
Managing power delivery today requires utilities to maximize grid capacity and extend equipment life in a safe manner. Better system designs and monitoring...
SuperVAR Synchronous Condenser Generates Reactive Power on Ohio Grid
American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC; Westborough, Massachusetts, U.S.) announces the successful operation and testing of an advanced prototype SuperVAR...
Consumers Energy Builds Modular Designed Substations
The deregulated electric utility market has planners sharpening their pencils when it comes to new construction expenditures...
System Reliability Requires Safe Switching
EPRI's 1995 report Field Operation Power Switching Safety sparked interest across the industry with respect to switching operations. A key result of a...
BC Hydro Begins Hydrogen Fuel Cell Field Trial with Ballard Power Systems’ Nexa RM Series
BC Hydro has announced it has developed a hydrogen-fuel-cell-based emergency backup system for utility applications, powered by Ballard Power Systems’ Nexa® RM Series fuel cell modules...
Active Power Doubles Energy of Extended Runtime Product
Active Power Inc. (Austin, Texas, U.S.) has successfully completed the second of five milestones for its new battery-free energy storage system by operating...
Dynamic Ratings Selected by Kansas Utility
Dynamic Ratings (Victoria, Australia) recently announced that its DRMCC transformer controller integrated with Luxtron's m600 Fluoroptic thermometry module...
Reaping the Rewards of Automated Capacitor Control
One of the final frontiers of applying computerized technology to the power industry lies in automating reactive power control on distribution systems....
VFT System in Service for TransEnergie
Following the successful completion of commissioning tests, GE Energy's new variable frequency transformer (VFT) technology has entered commercial service...
Wireless Provider Selects CleanSource
Eurotel Praha, spol. s.r.o. (Praha, Czech Republic), the largest provider of wireless voice and data services in the Czech Republic, has selected Active...
HTS Power Cable to be Constructed Between Two New York Substations
SuperPower, Inc., in partnership with The BOC Group, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. and Niagara Mohawk, a National Grid Company, intends to design and manufacture an underground, high-temperature superconducting (HTS) power cable between two Niagara Mohawk substations in Albany, New York....
AMC-ETEC Unveils Superior Performance Solution in High-Amperage Electrical Contacts
AMC-ETEC (St. Czaire, France) has created a new line of foam coatings for metallic contacts. This revolutionary, internationally patented material for...
Chinese Utilities Apply Phase-Controlled Switching
Occasionally, the transient overvoltage resulting from circuit breaker (CB) switching can be hazardous to the electrical insulation in power systems....
Hydro One Installs IOS Relay Settings System
Hydro One Networks Inc. (HONI; Toronto, Ontario, Canada) has chosen the Relay Settings System (RSS) by Innovative Organizational Systems Inc. (IOS; Cleveland,...
Locating and Assessing Faults In Power Transformers
Acoustic Emission (AE) is a nondestructive testing method that has been successfully used in a variety of applications dating back to the early 1970s....
United Kingdom: AREVA T&D Helps Upgrade EDF Energy's Network
AREVA's T&D division has won one of the largest single turnkey substation contracts ever awarded by EDF Energy, the UK's largest distribution network...
GE Energy to Build Modular Protection and Control Structures for Pacific Gas & Electric
GE Energy (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.) has received an order from Pacific Gas and Electric (PG San Francisco, California, U.S.) to build packaged control...
PNM Conducts Test Phasing with Avistar's AP-10
PNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico), an electricity and natural-gas provider serving more than 1.3 million people throughout New Mexico, has been using beta...
SEL Relays Protect Encorp Genset Solutions for Food Industry Firms
California Natural Products (CNP; Lathrop, California, U.S.), a natural food processor of rice-based ingredients, saw the opportunity to lower its electric...
It's Time to Address the Critical Issue of VAR Compensation
As a technologist, it is hard to watch as underinvestment in America's integrated transmission grid leaves the nation unable to provide secure, reliable...
Austria: VA TECH T&D Wins Order for Graz Substation
Eisenbahn Hochleistungsstrecken AG awarded VA TECH T&D a contract to supply and install the new Graz Substation of the Austrian Federal Railways (BB)....
Impact of High-Frequency Switching on Cable Insulation
ABB, American Electric Power (AEP) and EPRI documented the impact of high-frequency switching on cable terminations used for the converter-based Eagle...
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