Another challenging fire season in the west threatens the power system in our area. The good news for Idaho is thatDuke Energyis building a new solar power plant in Twin Falls. The Jackpot solar plant "will provide a generation capacity of 120 megawatts (MW); this solar plant is projected...
Be Prepared Ahead of Outages The average Idaho Power customer is without power for fewer than 4 hours a year. But sometimes outages can last for hours or even longer. Make sure you’re ready for any outage. Learn more. For assistance with a PDF on this page or to request a PDF in an...
UPS are used in a variety of locations to provide appropriate countermeasures on the power demand side in the event of power outages due to power transmission route malfunctions or natural disasters, or power supply fluctuations due to power supply changes caused by large-scale construction projects...
Dominion is building some large batteries and testing long-duration battery storage technologies (and of course, Virginia already has the largest pumped storage facility in the world), but our utilities have not even begun to tap the potential of batteries in homes and businesses. Subsidizing the ...
sustained outages. In anticipation of this requirement, and to improve the company’s ability to detect outages and accelerate service restoration, SGIG funds were used to conduct a study and produce a detailed specification for a distribution management system (DMS) that could be ...
While power infrastructure has historically focused on reliability, aiming to withstand known threats and ensure uninterrupted power supply, the rise in extreme weather events presents a significant challenge [6]. Between 2003 and 2012, approximately 679 large-scale power outages in the United States ...
The application of various parametric and nonparametric ML algorithms used for fault diagnosis and maintenance on power distribution lines is addressed in this section. 3.1.1. Weather-Caused Faults The relationship between overhead distribution line outages and weather conditions such as wind gusts and ...
Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83415, USA 2 College of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, 601 West Main Street, Richmond, VA 23284, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Energies2021,14(5), 1409;https://doi.org/10.3390/en14051409 ...
Potential cybersecurity threats could have cascading effects, leading to damage and power outages, as well as personal data breaches [3]. Over the last few decades, the power system has been modernized. This modernization concerns (i) market aspects, due to its liberalization, (ii) ...
Resulting disruptions and wide-scale outages of electrical power have extensive social and economic consequences [23]. Contributions This paper specifically targets the security challenges originating from the increasing interconnection of power grids, especially at the transmission and distribution level. To...