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Professor Helps Preserve Crucial Climate Change Data

The Trump administration’s policies raised concerns about the preservation of critical environmental data. Recognizing the risk of losing valuable information, Eric Nost and the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI) took proactive steps to archive datasets at risk of deletion.

The Preservation Effort

Nost and EDGI collaborated to identify and preserve key datasets related to climate change and environmental science, including:

  • Sea Level Rise Estimates: Data on coastal vulnerabilities.
  • Wildfire Risk Predictions: Information for...

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FBI Warns of Cyber Risks as Renewable Energy Grows

As the adoption of renewable energy technologies accelerates across the globe, the FBI has issued a stark warning about the increasing cyber risks associated with these advancements. The rise in renewable energy infrastructure, while crucial for achieving climate goals, has also attracted the...
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Duke Energy Approved to Deploy New Power Generation in NC

Duke Energy has received approval from North Carolina regulators to deploy a significant amount of new power generation capacity in the state, including new natural gas plants, as part of its long-term energy transition strategy. The decision, which is expected to have a major impact on the...

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Electrical Substations

Distribution Transformer DGA – The Future of Monitoring Distribution Systems

By Leon White and Traci Hopkins, H2scan Corporation

As distributed generation, electric vehicle load, and requirements for increased electricity reliability provide real-world challenges for electric utilities, asset managers must innovate to ensure their infrastructure is in good condition to deliver safe, reliable, and uninterrupted power to customers.

Distribution systems have been designed to transfer power from large remote generators to customers via radial distribution networks.  This paper will discuss the progress that is being made in using new internet of things (IoT) innovations to provide real-time data from distribution assets so operators can understand the real-time health of their distribution equipment.

The primary purpose of an electricity distribution system is to provide reliable and low-cost power to the end user upon demand. In recent years, this has become an ever-increasing challenge for asset managers as the demand for power has increased and the loads and stress placed on transformers and...

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Breakers & Relays

Effective and Safe Testing of GIS Switchgear

To fully assess the functionality of medium and high voltage circuit breakers, various mechanical and electrical parameters must be tested. Gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) in particular poses unique and special challenges, including the connection of the test equipment. In today‘s world, where...
Substation Protection

Protective Relay Frustrations

Solving misoperation with line parameter measurements BY WILL KNAPEK, OMICRON USA Between 80 to 90 percent of all power system faults involve ground. Many protective relaying schemes depend on ground distance protection to accurately sense and locate ground faults on multi-terminal sub-transmission...