On Sunday August 28, the center of the hurricane/tropic storm named Irene went about 30 miles west of Shoreham, NY, located on the Long Island Sound. Being on the east side of the storm, Shoreham and the rest of Long Island were exposed to its greatest fury. At its peak, 523,000 Long Island Power Authority Continue reading →
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On a hot summer day two weeks shy of eight years ago, an electrical transmission line in Ohio sagged into a tree and shorted out, diverting current that overloaded other lines. Within a couple of hours, protective switches were opening all over the Midwest and Northeast grids, cutting off power to 55 million people in Continue reading →
Smart meters can do something for Northern Ontario residents that may be even more important than helping them save money on their electricity bills – they instantly notify Hydro One when the power to your home has gone off. “The new meters have this super capacitor that knows when the power goes out in a Continue reading →
Austin Energy (AE) has installed 40 remote switches on six circuits in a seven-square mile area of Oak Hill to test a “self healing” energy technology to automatically turn power back on after an outage. According to AE’s Carlos Cordova, the southwest area of the city, representing 12,000 customers, was chosen because the existing infrastructure Continue reading →
The Arizona Public Service (APS), the largest utility company in Arizona, is testing a new piece of smart-grid technology that could slash the time it takes to recognize and repair power outages. via APS Testing Self-Healing Grid in Flagstaff, Arizona | GetSolar.com Blog.
The recent outages that affected Pepco customers throughout the Washington metropolitan area made clear the profound dilemma all of us face as we increase our dependence on electricity to power large appliances, hand-held devices and information technology. We live in an age when demand is escalating. Our electric delivery system must meet that demand. Despite Continue reading →
Providing utility companies with a reliable, accurate and energy-efficient smart grid solution for electricity line monitoring, Optisense Network, Inc. has selected Texas Instruments Incorporated’s (TI) (NYSE: TXN) embedded processing and analog technology as the preferred solution for its primary measuring units (PMU). TI’s TMS320C2000(TM) microcontroller and high-performance analog technology enables a complete monitoring solution that Continue reading →
The computer in my toaster might be more powerful than the one that guided Apollo 11. But half a century after Robert Noyce launched the cyber age by inventing the silicon-based integrated circuit, computers are curiously scarce in one huge and critical part of daily life. When power goes out in your neighborhood, Baltimore Gas Continue reading →
As thunderstorms rolled over Metro Detroit late last month, knocking out power and dimming lights, spiffy, new devices affixed to homes on Grosse Ile were electronically alerting workers at DTE Energy’s downtown Detroit headquarters of each power flicker in the island’s electricity grid. In the past, the only way Detroit’s largest utility company knew of Continue reading →
Duke Energy says its experiment with Smart Grid technology at the McAlpine Creek Switching Station has already proved the advanced technology can improve service. In December, the company found an outage involving five of the 16,000 customers served by the substation before the customers were aware they’re power was out. For three of them, the Continue reading →
