Digital Innovations

Advances in digital devices and technology, giving utilities situational awareness of the grid and the capability to control power flows on their networks.

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Overhead Transmission

Brazil's Taesa Commissions Upgrade of HDVC Converter Station

Nov. 9, 2023

Smart Utility

Hitachi Energy Updates Asset Performance Solution

Oct. 23, 2023

HVDC

Minnesota Power Secures $50 Million From U.S. DOE To Modernize HVDC Transmission System

Oct. 23, 2023

Caithness Moray HVDC link, Blackhillock. Courtesy of Hitachi Energy

Transmission Reliability

Superhighways Are Supercharging The Transmission Grid

Sept. 27, 2023

Intelligent Undergrounding

Iowa Board Approves 525 kV Underground HVDC SOO Green Transmission Line Project

Sept. 18, 2023

Digital Innovations

Duke Energy CIO, VP Joins Workforce Management Firm ARCOS

Sept. 6, 2023

Highlights

HVDC

SuperGrid Institute to Coordinate the European Project HVDC-WISE

Oct. 27, 2022

This new project will foster the development of large HVDC-based transmission grid infrastructures, to improve the resilience and reliability of existing electrical systems and...

Depending on photovoltaic (PV) penetration, native substation loading and clouding patterns, power flow can change direction (from forward to reverse power and vice versa) in a matter of minutes.

Digital Innovations

Advance the Distribution Grid with Synchronized Measurements

Sept. 13, 2022

Emerging challenges on the distribution grid are driving the need for new and improved solutions that use synchronized measurement technologies.

1972 Hewlett-Packard scientific pocket calculator: HP-35.

Smart Utility

Technology And The Human Factor

Jan. 21, 2022

With all the attention focused on our infrastructure, Dynamic Line Rating technology appears to be an ideal solution for increasing the nation’s transmission capacity with little...

A STATCOM installation has a relatively small footprint, requiring an area of 250 ft by 250 ft (76 m by 76 m) for a 250-MVAR installation.

Test and Measurement

Advanced Voltage Control for the Grid

Dec. 6, 2021

Ameren Transmission uses STATCOM technology to ensure grid stability while moving away from fossil fuel energy centers to clean energy sources.

HVDC

First-Ever Large-Scale HVDC Interconnection to Be Built in the Middle East and North Africa

Oct. 8, 2021

The groundbreaking intercontinental link will enable the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Arab Republic of Egypt to exchange electricity, increase grid resilience and support a...