Ethernet Cable Selection for Utilities
Electric utilities are constantly searching for the most efficient, reliable and cost-effective methods to deliver electricity to customers. A vision for accomplishing this is...
Grounding System Maintenance Guide
Grounding systems are a crucially important component of any power supply system, because they directly impact public and employee safety, supply system reliability, power...
Transmission Planning for Grid Security
Recent physical attacks on substations have heightened the industry’s awareness of the necessity for physical security of critical facilities on the bulk power system....
Geomagnetic Disturbances: A Danger to the Power Grid
In 1989, the Québec grid collapsed as equipment protection relays tripped in a cascading sequence of events. Six million consumers were left without power...
Deterrence Drives Next Gen Security
Theft, destruction, disablement, vandalism, and terrorism: any of the aforementioned words receive the attention of organizations with susceptible critical assets. Physical security and its...
Safe Grounding in Substations
How to guard utility personnel from shock hazards
BY JEFF JOWETT, Megger
In the power industry, safety is just as important a function as performance. Safety...
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...
Integrated Security Operations Centers (ISOC)
The watchdog of electrical assets
BY RALPH KING, Electric Power Research Institute
Security operations centers (SOCs) are common in corporate information technology (IT), physical security, and...
Substation Maintenance Best Practices
Improving substation maintenance best practices for greater success
BY BUDO MILOVIC, DV-Power
Currently, substation maintenance—regular or emergency—operations and best practices must fit the utility’s goal of...
Substation Security
Improve protection with a layered security approach
BY ERIC BYRES, Belden Inc.
An age-old joke in the North American power industry states that if Alexander Graham...
Protecting Substations Against Animal Invaders
A closer look at animal-caused outages at substations
BY BILL REICHARD, TransGard Systems
Every year, squirrels, raccoons, snakes, and other climbing animals cause substation outages across...
Partial Discharge & Circuit Breaker Asset Management
Detecting and avoiding preventable failures
BY JAY GARNETT, Doble Engineering Company
While metal clad switchgear can be very reliable, sometimes operating for over 50 years, throughout...
