The power grid is also evolving. Upgrades in technology now let us connect our own home-generated electricity to the grid — using solar panels or wind generators — and get paid back by utilities. The U.S. federal government is also investing in a so-calledsmart gridthat employs digital t...
Within these three regions, the grids are divided up further into many smaller grids serving specific areas of the country. How is the grid regulated? The US grid is regulated by a range of authorities, all with different responsibilities. The overarching regulatory body is theFederal Energy Regu...
One exception was during the 2021 Texas freeze, when power was knocked out to millions of homes in the state amid frigid temperatures. In that event, there actually wasn't enough power to go around, especially after more than half of the state's natural gas infrastructure...
The place where electricity converts from "transmission" to "distribution" occurs is in a power substation. Jose A. Bernat Bacete/Getty Images For power to be useful in a home or business, it comes off the transmission grid and is stepped-down to the distribution grid. This may happen...
to the simple act of ejecting the "Star Wars" disc from your PC. Despite our familiarity with its effects, many people fail to understand exactly what electricity is -- a ubiquitous form of energy resulting from the motion of charged particles, like electrons. When put to the question, even...
Differential Protection: 5G Competing with the Speed of Light And 5G-powered intelligent inspection is just one of the 5G pilots SPSB is conducting. The low-latency of 5G is also changing power grids in many other service scenarios, in ways that would have simply been impossible during the 4G...
PKI in IoT Public key infrastructure (PKI) is a standard-based security technology used to secure IoT devices today. For many years, PKI has been safeguarding network-connected devices by giving trust and assurance to manage digital identities and certificates for the IoT. PKI should be at the...
How to Work Effectively in Evolving Power Grids Discover how documentation and open communication help substation engineers deal with change. In this episode, we speak with OMICRON Sales and Application Engineer Jere Polojärvi in Finland. Jere has several years of experience in building new...
In some intercom sets, all operations are controlled by the master station: power on/off, radio on/off, and call station selection. You can call only one substation at a time or all at one time from the master station, and the single station you call is the only one that can reply....
Inside your house, the electric charge moves in a large circuit, which is composed of many smaller circuits. One end of the circuit, the hot wire, leads to the power plant. The other end, called the neutral wire, leads to the ground. Because the hot wire connects to a high energy ...