It's a beautiful day in your service area, and your distribution operations control center has few to no outages for operations to deal with; everything at your utility is status quo. Tomorrow, ...

Electrical power transmission networks are protected and controlled by medium and high-voltage circuit breakers. Breakers are meant to make and break the flow of electrical currents in transmission ...

Even though there is plenty of variation in our grid reliability improvement efforts, the latest project designs for transmission and substation improvements can be split into two main categories: ...

To improve emergency response operations, utilities across the United States and Canada are increasingly adopting the Incident Command System (ICS). Given what appears to be the increasing severity of ...

Ethernet and the IP protocol bring tremendous advantages to power utilities – and in particular substations – through international standardization. This keeps the cost of equipment low, ensures ...

The prospect of large-scale deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) raises significant issues for electric distribution utilities and service providers. Certainly, the commercial implications of EVs are ...

Ontario’s electricity industry faces a number of challenges over the coming years. The growing concern about greenhouse gas emissions from coal-powered generation, and aging infrastructure that ...

In a rapidly evolving utility landscape, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) has emerged as an attractive solution for organizations seeking to enhance connectivity and transform their ...

System performance is an important aspect of the power utility business and is determined by how efficiently and effectively information is used and assimilated. Often power system decisions are made ...