Electrical substations utilize direct lightning stroke shielding to help ensure proper operation, and to prevent costly damages and extended outages. While modern substation designs and equipment make ...

In early 2006, the Colorado Springs Utilities' (SU; Colorado Springs, Colorado) safety and health department reviewed a new fall-protection mast for the top of the 112 transformers in its substation ...

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has launched Siprotec V, a virtualised protection and control product for digital substations that runs on a server and replaces multiple dedicated devices. Siemens ...

Duke Energy is evaluating the use of a point to point digital secondary system to reduce the amount of copper utilized in traditional substation protection designs. Table I below, lists various ...

With a central role in modern electrical systems, digital substations are of particular interest to cybercriminals. Their use of Ethernet communications to transfer information between substations and ...

Substations are prevalent in all petrochemical facilities. Their function is to distribute power to the process units. Typically, there are either one or two types of battery systems within each ...

Contractors test voltage using “hot sticks” atop a lift at substation N on Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., June 2, 2022. (U.S. Space Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ryan Quijas) For many ...

Data center developers have mastered server density and cooling, but power interconnection remains stubbornly slow. Modular substations built in factories rather than fields are emerging as the most ...

You've read 5 stories this month. Support the CT Mirror reporting you rely on. When Superstorm Sandy sent a nearly 10-foot storm surge into Bridgeport’s South End in 2012, workers at United ...

When the lights go out, most people assume it’s due to a storm. Not necessarily. This year, Americans suffered from an uptick in malicious attacks on all 16 sectors of critical infrastructure (CI).