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Smart Utility Distribution Automation Training

Increasing the hosting capacity of distributed generation in power distribution systems is identified as key low-carbon solution to help meet the aggressive greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in the energy sector. The deployment of distributed generation technologies is creating a paradigm...

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Reconditioned SF₆ Gas: An Environmentally Friendly Alternative

When it comes to medium and high voltage circuit breakers, there is no better electrical insulator than sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). The manufactured gas is most commonly used to fill circuit breakers within utility substations to prevent and quench arcing events. SF6's impeccable dielectric...

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B.C. Climate News: Urgent Calls for Enhanced Emissions Targets and Displacement Due to Climate Change

As climate change increasingly shapes the landscape of our planet, British Columbia (B.C.) is at the forefront of addressing the challenges posed by a warming world. Recent developments highlight two critical issues: the call from Canada’s net-zero advisory body for more ambitious emissions...

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White Paper: Copper Theft from Canada's Electricity Infrastructure

Expensive, dangerous, and a threat to reliability Each and every year there are hundreds of copper thefts across the country which have resulted in power outages, increased costs to utilities that are ultimately passed on to Canadians, injuries, and in some cases, even deaths. As the voice of the...

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WORKING IN THE THIRD DIMENSION

Typically, engineering consulting firms have been designing substations using two-dimensional computer aided design software (CAD) since the 1970s. This common technique produces two-dimensional drawings that are completed individually by designers. Any change to the design requires the designer to...

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Distributed Energy Poised for ‘Explosive Growth’ on the US Grid

Distributed energy resources are poised for “explosive growth” across the United States over the next five years. U.S. utilities “need to change, and are slowly changing,” how they plan, operate and maintain their distribution grids to adapt.That’s how Ben Kellison,...

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RMS Energy Responds to the Changing Engineering Needs of Customers

Today’s electrical infrastructure in the United States might have been viewed as a work of science fiction when the first commercial power grid was conceived and built in New York’s lower Manhattan in the 1880s. But it didn’t take long for fiction to become fact. Thomas Edison’s brilliant and innovative design led to the propagation of more than 4,000 individual electric utilities by the early 1900s, paving the way for the immense transformation of how...

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