Modern power systems face increasing challenges as they integrate renewable energy sources and advanced digital technologies. Key to maintaining reliable electricity supply is the design of robust ...

Over the past decade, those of us in the power industry have witnessed a remarkable transformation. Power needs have not only grown, but with each generation they have advanced — driven by smarter ...

Steps engineers can take to help mitigate power outage impacts. Paths to PLC redundancy. Paths to PAC redundancy. How can a dual Ethernet ring help with resilience? Power outages are becoming more ...

Distributed control systems (DCSs) and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) have been commonplace in power plants for decades, but the technology has not been stagnant. Today’s systems are beginning ...

Six times during the previous year the local utility supplying power to a large soap manufacturing plant in the Midwest suffered power outages, shutting down the plant’s production lines. Each time ...

A coordinated control framework stabilizes power grids with high renewable penetration by managing distributed storage units in real time.

MANHASSET, N.Y. &#151 Artesyn Technologies Inc. (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Astec Power (Carlsbad, Calif.), have formed a coalition of power supply and semiconductor suppliers to develop an open ...

Aerial overview of the BESS installed in Nishi-Sendai substation. The Tohoku region of Japan has ideal wind conditions. By the end of 2015, Tohoku Electric Power Co. Inc. had connected 800 MW of wind ...

ABB has introduced significant advancements to the power simulation models for its ABB UNITROL 1000 Automatic Voltage Regulators (AVR).

Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution, Inc. has received a contract to supply state-of-the-art energy management and energy market management systems to equip Russia's extra-high voltage power ...

At CES, MPS highlighted how its motor-control ICs can enable smarter, more precise control of brushless DC motors that are multiplying across robotics and other industries.