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    Solving Mysterious Transformer Trips
    ID 170786840 © Anton Anton | Dreamstime.com
    Microphone against black backdrop
    April 10, 2025
    T&D World adapts to new ways of connecting utility professionals with the stories, trends, and voices shaping the power industry.
    To learn more about Jon Backman and his career in the line trade, stay tuned to a new episode in our Lineworker Focus series for the Line Life Podcast at linelife.podbean.com.
    April 10, 2025
    The troubleman for Puget Sound Energy responds to outages, emergencies and public safety concerns in Washington.
    ID 331915294 © Artinun Prekmoung | Dreamstime.com
    A solar photovoltaic array. These types of solar farms use inverters and are covered by NERC’s new rules regulating inverter-based resources.
    April 9, 2025
    Preparing for these new rules can be daunting, but formulating a plan is essential.
    ID 2643623 © Kushnirov Avraham | Dreamstime.com
    Transmission lines cross a bend in the Colorado River in Utah. In the US West, resource adequacy groups have been one way stakeholders have tried to maintain transmission reliability.
    April 4, 2025
    With power-hungry parts of the US economy poised to grow, policymakers need to take a hard look at how the power grid can be built to be bigger than the weather.
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    Installing rooftop solar panel.
    March 31, 2025
    There is a workaround for quickly adding transmission capacity to the grid.

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    ID 42648282 © Polsin Junpangpen | Dreamstime.com
    Silhouette of a substation at night.
    March 20, 2025
    Transformer trips are a common problem, but the solution is sometimes not immediately obvious. A technician shares three stories from the field.
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    A port crane lifts a modular container into place. Cyber vulnerabilities cropped up in the systems that operate these cranes.
    March 19, 2025
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