The smart grid uses gathered information and data to help improve efficiency, reliability and distribution of electricity to utility customers. As Georgia Power neared the completion of its advanced ...

Dave Kurtz, KCP&L’s lead lone lineman-splicer, uses an open-core, high-voltage hot-stick ammeter to take current readings on the source and load sides of a line post insulator sensor. These readings ...

When I start talking about ferroresonance, either eyes glaze over or people believe it is part of the flux capacitor in that 1981 DeLorean from that movie we all love. What is ferroresonance in power ...

Not all UPS designs are the same. As a result of cost savings in the very competitive UPS market, some designs may not have the highest level of component reliability. Capacitors are an integral part ...

All buck converters need capacitors on the input. Actually, in a perfect world, if the supply had zero output impedance and infinite current capacity and the tracks had zero resistance or inductance, ...