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Climate Change Concerns Among Canadian Farmers
Climate change is profoundly affecting Canadian agriculture, with farmers across the country expressing diverse concerns based on regional experiences and political perspectives. A recent poll…
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California PUC Advances Offshore Wind Procurement
The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) took a pivotal step in advancing the state's clean energy goals by approving a significant expansion in offshore wind…
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Massachusetts Utilities File $5B Efficiency Plan
Massachusetts' utility companies have unveiled an ambitious $5 billion energy efficiency plan designed to bolster the state's efforts to meet its climate goals and provide…
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Climate Change and Political Responses
As the 2024 presidential campaign heats up, discussions around climate change continue to shape the political landscape. Recent events have brought to light the complex…
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FERC Order 1920: A Balancing Act for State and Federal Power in Transmission Planning
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order 1920 has been a topic of debate in the energy industry. The order grants states more authority over…
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BC Hydro Introduces 'Vehicle-to-Grid' Pilot Initiative
BC Hydro has unveiled an innovative pilot project designed to enable electric vehicles (EVs) to contribute electricity back to the power grid, effectively transforming these…
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Wind Turbine Blade Recycling Gains Momentum in Iowa
Iowa, a leading state in wind energy production, is making significant strides in addressing the environmental challenge posed by decommissioned wind turbine blades. Traditionally, these…
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Natural Gas Market Faces Challenges Amid Cold Winter Predictions
As the 2024-2025 winter season approaches, the natural gas market is bracing for potential challenges, particularly in light of recent forecasts predicting colder temperatures. According…
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From Protection to Prediction: How AI Is Changing Substation Maintenance and Operations
For decades, substation protection and substation maintenance were treated as separate disciplines. Protection relays existed…
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Substation Cybersecurity in the Digital Era: NERC CIP, IEC 62443, and Protecting the IEC 61850 Network
Every benefit that digital substations and IEC 61850 networking bring to T&D operations comes with…
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Substations in a DER-Heavy Grid: DERMS, FLISR, and Grid-Enhancing Technologies
The substation was originally designed to manage power flowing in one direction, from generation through…
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Digital Substations and the IEC 61850 Standard: The Architecture Behind Today’s Smart Grid
For most of the history of the electric power industry, substations were built around copper.…
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The Mentoring Gap: How the Loss of Informal Knowledge Is Affecting Safety
For much of the trade’s history, the most important safety lessons in line work were…
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Grounding Assumptions: Where Line Crews Still Get Hurt Despite “Doing It Right”
Why Grounding Remains a Source of Serious Injury
Grounding is one of the most emphasized…
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Insulators' ageing in North America - How about testing them?
Sediver has established in the USA an assembly factory for glass insulators in 2017 but also, and perhaps more interesting for some engineers, a laboratory…
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ARCOS Callout and Scheduling Solutions
Using the ARCOS Callout and Scheduling solutions, GVEA’s supervisors, dispatchers and line workers, among others, will be able to plan, launch and track the status…
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Electrical Safety in the Field
Protecting utility workers using mobile technologies BY TOM OCONNOR, Panasonic Solutions for Business Nearly every lineman has heard of a colleague who has been injured—or…
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Power Grid Congestion
Unclogging the arteries of North America’s power grid
BY DAVE BRYANT, CTC Global Corporation
Without access to affordable and reliable electricity, no society in today’s…
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Lightning Strikes
In Canada, lightning flashes occur about 2.34 million times a year; with the highest levels of concentration during the summer months.
While most lightning on…
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