At 60HZ and higher data rates, new phasor measurement units (PMUs) used in power grid monitoring can produce vast ...
Year: 2013
Hydro-Quebec is actually deploying AMI for their 4 000 000 customers. This new information is very valuable to the different research projects and there was a need to gather and integrate this new data with the network topology. The R&D ...
Year: 2013
Today, companies struggle with gaining greater asset awareness for improved Operations & Maintenance (O&M) spend and making the right decisions in Capital Expenditures (CAPEX). The newer field of Asset Analytics offers greater insight into asset condition, but the Doble Engineering ...
Year: 2013
For most utilities, real-time operational data tools are focused on time-related analysis. Although these tools have proven essential, many factors that affect performance occur spontaneously and are often not time synchronized, for example, asset age, operating conditions, demand patterns, and ...
Year: 2013
The global utility industry in recent years has seen significant build-out of customer-owned distributed generation (DG) in their electric network. This unreliable and non-dispatchable generation is primarily in the form of small, rooftop PV solar arrays. The consequence is that ...
Year: 2013